Pierre Boulez
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| Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 : R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 - I. Einleitung, oder Sonnenaufgang | Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez | 02:01 | |
| Ravel: Boléro, M. 81 | Berliner Philharmoniker, Pierre Boulez, Maurice Ravel | 14:58 | |
| Symphony No. 5 In C Sharp Minor : 1. Trauermarsch (In gemessenem Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt) [Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor / Part 1] | Wiener Philharmoniker, Pierre Boulez | 12:54 | |
| Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83 : Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83 - III. Presto | Krystian Zimerman, The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, Maurice Ravel | 03:57 | |
| Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83 : Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83 - II. Adagio assai | Krystian Zimerman, The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, Maurice Ravel | 09:23 | |
| Symphony No. 5 In C Sharp Minor : II. Stürmisch bewegt. Mit größter Vehemenz | Wiener Philharmoniker, Pierre Boulez | 15:02 | |
| Ma mère l'oye, M. 62 : Ravel: Ma mère l'oye, M. 62 - Apothéose: Le jardin féerique. Lent et grave | Berliner Philharmoniker, Pierre Boulez, Maurice Ravel | 03:29 | |
| Nocturnes, L.91 : Debussy: Nocturnes, L.91 - II. Fêtes | The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, Claude Debussy | 06:31 | |
| La mer, L. 109 : Debussy: La mer, L. 109 - II. Jeux de vagues | The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, Claude Debussy | 07:05 | |
| Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61 : Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61 - V. Presque lent - dans un sentiment intime | The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, Maurice Ravel | 01:20 |
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Debussy: Nocturnes; Première Rhapsodie; Jeux; La Mer
by The Cleveland Orchestra, Claude Debussy, Pierre Boulez, Franklin Cohen...
Ravel: Piano Concertos; Valses nobles et sentimentales
by Krystian Zimerman, Maurice Ravel, The Cleveland Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra...
Stravinsky: L'Oiseau de Feu; Feu d'artifice; Quatre Etudes pour orchestre
by Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, Igor Stravinsky
Scriabin: Le Poème de l'extase; Piano Concerto; Prométhée
by Anatol Ugorski, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, Chicago Symphony Chorus...
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French conductor, composer and writer Pierre Boulez was a giant of classical music throughout the second half of the 20th century and until his death in 2016 aged 90. He won more than 30 Grammy Awards for his recordings of his own compositions and of composers such as Bartók, Berlioz, Debussy, Mahler, Ravel, Stravinsky and Wagner and in 2015 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award. He won ten Gramophone Awards as a conductor and four as a composer and in 1995 the magazine honoured him as Artist of the Year.
Born in France in a town just west of Lyon, he studied in Paris where in the late 1940s he became music director of a theatre company. He carved out a career as an innovative composer but in the 1950s he turned more and more to conducting. He conducted his own material and then expanded to include the works of others starting in 1959 with Bartók at the Aix-en-Provence and Donaueschingen Festivals. Appearances followed with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestre National de France.
Boulez made his operatic conducting debut in 1963 at the Opéra National de Paris and appeared with the Frankfurt Opera, the Bayreuth Festival and the Osaka Festival. The Edinburgh International Festival in 1965 saw his first major presentation as conductor of his own work and he became principal guest conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra in America.
He conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic and appeared annually in Cleveland and with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He continued to write and also conducted opera in Wales, the Netherlands and France. He made his last appearance as conductor in Salzburg in January 2012 with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Mitsuko Uchida. He died at his home in Baden-Baden on 5th January 2016.