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91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra
30 Mar 2025, Barbican, London
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91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2024-25 Barbican Season Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez - Pli selon pli

91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra
Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez - Pli selon pli
19:00 Sun 30 Mar 2025 Barbican, London

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Programme

      • Deux Études, musique concrète for tape(6 mins)
      • 12 Notations(10 mins)
      • Incises(9 mins)
      • cummings ist der Dichter(13 mins)
        • interval
        • Pli selon pli(70 mins)

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    About This Event

    The 91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra’s 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 91Èȱ¬ Singers join the 91Èȱ¬ SO to perform the extraordinary, playful Cummings ist der Dichter.

    And then Martyn Brabbins joins soprano Anna Dennis and an expanded 91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra for a rare complete performance of Boulez’s single largest work, Pli selon Pli. Part Mallarmé 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 91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra – making it the perfect way for the orchestra to salute the 100th birthday of its most revolutionary chief conductor.