Pierre Boulez - The 20th Century (44 Cd)

Pierre Boulez

CD 1 – 8 Bartók CD 9 – 12 Berg CD 13 – 14 Birtwistle CD 15 – 19 Boulez CD 20 – 21 Debussy CD 22 – 23 Ligeti CD 24 – 25 Messiaen CD 26 – 29 Ravel CD 30 – 33 Schoenberg CD 34 – 39 Stravinsky CD 40 Szymanowski CD 41 Varèse CD 42 – 44 Webern

The success of books and festivals such as ‘The Rest Is Noise’ have made proved that 20th-century music exerts a fascination every bit as powerful as 20th-century art or architecture. Musically there can be no better guide to our tumultuous age than composer, conductor and titanic musical intellect Pierre Boulez. For the occasion of his 90th birthday DG have assembled a 44-CD set that charts the course of 20th century music, starting chronologically with Debussy and ending with works by Boulez himself. Grammy-award winning Bartok and Stravinsky recordings stand out along with modern classics by Varèse, Concertos by Ligeti Concertos and the first complete recording of Berg’s Lulu. Other landmarks of the Second Viennese School include Schoenberg’s Moses und Aaron and the Webern recordings. On 26 March 2015 Pierre Boulez reaches his ninetieth year. This great master of music – composer, conductor and writer – has been an exclusive artist with Deutsche Grammophon for over 20 years; his recording legacy with the label is immense. We celebrate his birthday with a 44-CD box set of his complete DG 20th century music recordings – an aspect of his work that lies at the heart of his achievement. “The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music. It is not a vessel into which the composer distills his soul drop by drop, but a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal.” Pierre Boulez A cube with striking images of Boulez taken by French photographer Philippe Gontier. Sleeves featuring photographs of the composers. New booklet text by Wolfgang Stähr

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