Boulez: Sur Incises; Messagesquisse; Anthèmes 2
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Performer: Jean-Guihen QueyrasComposer: Pierre Boulez
Conductor: Pierre Boulez
Performer: Ensemble de violoncelles
Performer: Soloists of the Ensemble Intercontemporain
Performer: Hae Sun Kang
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-06-12
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
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Free Music Review: Old grandpa Boulez is still up to no good!
Hit: 4 Stars
Shouldn't Pierre Boulez be writing comfortably melodic music at this stage of his career? Shouldn't Boulez's avant-garde stylistic shenanigans be dead and buried at this late stage of the game? Furthermore, Boulez is over 80 years old now and could kick the bucket anytime in the near future! Yet, the old fart is still up to his crafty tricks. Messing with people's expectations, going down new paths and experimenting with unique sounds and compositional structures.
I haven't responded to much of Boulez's music, past and present. You can understand my complete surprise that I could quickly embrace the featured work on this album, "Sur Incises", so readily. The main thing about this particular piece is that Boulez is expressing a new momentum in this style which hasn't been around for sometime. You're not likely to hear much of post-Webernian philosophizing here. Instead Boulez was intrigued by music of perpetual motion in his conception of this piece. Making use of wonderfully evocative instrumentation, ( a bunch of percussion instruments ), really gives this music a vibe unlike any I've grown accustomed to with Boulez.
The remaining pieces on this album are not nearly as interesting. One has a cellist competing with himself, played back on a recording. None of the music is as structurally fascinating or istrumentally illuminating as "Sur Incises", a piece that even modern music haters might find sympathy with.
This recording is now re-released at mid-price in DG's new Grand Prix Du Disque sub-label, marking various releases past and present that have won that particular award. Here is some Boulez that is worth your time after all.
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