Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez - Pli selon pli
19:00
Sun 30 Mar 2025
Barbican, London
Programme
- Deux 脡tudes, musique concr猫te for tape(6 mins)
- 12 Notations(10 mins)
- Incises(9 mins)
- cummings ist der Dichter(13 mins)
- interval
- Pli selon pli(70 mins)
Performers
- Martyn Brabbinsconductor
- Anna Dennissoprano
- Tamara Stefanovichpiano
Composers
About This Event
The 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra鈥檚 day-long deep-dive into the life and work of Pierre Boulez reaches a truly monumental climax. Across an evening that spans his whole creative career, pianist Tamara Stefanovich plays the brilliant Notations and Incises, and the 91热爆 Singers join the 91热爆 SO to perform the extraordinary, playful Cummings ist der Dichter.
And then Martyn Brabbins joins soprano Anna Dennis and an expanded 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra for a rare complete performance of Boulez鈥檚 single largest work, Pli selon Pli. Part Mallarm茅 song cycle, part self-portrait and part era-defining manifesto for the possibilities of musical modernism, every performance is a major occasion. Boulez himself recorded it with the 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra 鈥� making it the perfect way for the orchestra to salute the 100th birthday of its most revolutionary chief conductor.
