classical music: Pierre Boulez ...     classical music:       Schoenberg: Pierre Boulez Edition 11 review Pierre Boulez Sony Bmg Europe, 2009 superb Schoenberg reissue with minimal liner notes Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was arguably THE pivotal composer who launched the 20th century avant-garde in classical music. Along with his students Alban Berg and Anton Webern, the Second Vienna School, Schoenberg exploded the late Romantic soundworld and opened up new worlds of possibilities, first with atonal expressionism, and later with the innovative serialist system of composition. ...             Ravel: Boléro / Ma Mère L'Oye (complete ballet) / Rapsodie espagnole / Une Barque sur l'océan / Alborada del ...18 reviews Maurice Ravel, Pierre Boulez, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1994 Marriages made in heaven? Some marriages are made in heaven, others in hell. At first sight the combination of the lush, impressionist, romantic, sensual and sentimental music of Ravel and the brisk, dry, accurate, ultra-modern conducting of Pierre Boulez might seem to be the latter. However, all brief summaries fail to some extent and fortunately Ravel is not just the former. He is also a magician of the orchestra and a ...             Debussy's Greatest Hits15 reviews Claude Debussy, Michael Tilson Thomas, ... Sony, 1994 Soothing I listen to this in the car after a really lousy day and it all gets a little better. I know next to nothing about about classical music and can not correctly pronouce his name but I do like his work.             Ravel: The Piano Concertos; Valses nobles et sentimentales19 reviews Maurice Ravel, Pierre Boulez, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1999 Peerless Ravel-Astounding, Heart Stopping I have adored the 2 Ravel Piano Concerti since high school and I have heard every existing recording of these masterpieces. Nothing compares to the interepretations of Zimmerman, especially in the Left Hand Concerto. The opening solo cadenza is truly breathtaking and accomplishes what Ravel intended--that the absence of the right hand would not diminish in the least, the virtuosity of the piano ...             Ravel: Greatest Hits3 reviews Maurice Ravel, Michael Tilson Thomas, ... Sony, 1994 Bolero aside, sheer perfection I do not like Bolero. I have never liked Bolero. I don't think I will ever enjoy Bolero. I say this only to offer a reason for my lack of mention of that piece (beyond this, obviously). In fairness, Ravel at least once described Bolero as trivial, "a piece for orchestra without music". Fortunately, I did not let my feelings for Bolero sour my appreciation for the remaining works of Ravel. Ravel ...             Varese: Arcana; Ameriques; Ionization; Offrandes; Density 21.5; Octandre; Integrales11 reviews Edgard Varese, Pierre Boulez, ... Sony, 1991 definitely NOT Louie Louie This album (CD) made it into my collection the same way as a few others who've commented here. One day after listening to Lumpy Gravy I was at the record store holding this CD in my mitts wondering if I really wanted to subject myself to one of Zappa's major musical influences. This is music either for someone who knows a lot about the structure of sound and can appreciate it for that reason ...             Leos Janacek - From the House of Dead / MCO, ASC, Boulez, Chereau (Festival Aix-en-Provence 2007)9 reviews Olaf Bär, Peter Straka Deutsche Grammophon, 2008 Stunning! What an emotionally harrowing experience is watching this opera for the first time. Stephane Metge has made a film using the production by Patrice Chereau and Pierre Boulez (together again 30 some years after their famous Bayreuth Ring) and what a film it is. Boulez, almost literally seems to conjure this stunning performance from the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. From its haunting, jangly ...             G. Mahler: Symphony no. 811 reviews Pierre Boulez DG, 2008 A Beautiful, Moving Recording of a Towering Masterpiece We had the privilege of hearing Boulez conduct the Mahler 8 on April 30, 2009 in the Musikverein in Vienna with nearly the same soloists. I am glad to have this recording as a souvenir. Boulez' interpretation is luminous and transcendent, beautifully phrased, beautifully sung (even the sopranos aren't audibly straining as on so many recordings - one can hardly blame them if they do!). To hear ...             Debussy: La Mer / Nocturnes / Jeux / Rhapsodie pour clarinette et orchestre - The Cleveland Orchestra / ...19 reviews Claude Debussy, Pierre Boulez, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1995 The best "La Mer" I've heard from anyone not named Stokowski I join the throng of five-star reviews for this fabulous CD of Debussy specialties including La Mer and Nocturnes. While Pierre Boulez clearly has the training, background, intuition and temperament to define these exquisite works, it is hard to imagine the bad press this CD received when it came out, mainly in England, where one critic said Boulez "eviscerated" the first movement of La Mer. ...             Baroque Masterpieces5 reviews Johann Pachelbel, Jean-Joseph Mouret, ... Sony, 2002 Excellent Baroque Collection As I have stated in many of my previous reviews, I am a huge fan of the Sony Essential Classics (SEC) budget series. Most of the recordings feature classic and often definitive performances featuring the likes of George Szell, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Casadesus, Isaac Stern and Rudolf Serkin among others. Here we get a variety of orchestras and conductors including big names like Jean-Claude ...             Mahler: Lieder - Quasthoff / Urmana / von Otter / Wiener Philharmoniker / Boulez6 reviews Gustav Mahler, Pierre Boulez, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2005 Three of Mahler's Song Cycles, Three Artists, One Conductor Pierre Boulez, now in his eighties, has become not only a master of orchestral score clarity: Boulez has also become a poet of the Romantic repertoire. The three beloved song cycles of Gustav Mahler here performed are among Mahler's most tender statements and Boulez allows all of the beauty and anguish to flow unfettered under his leadership. The brilliant Thomas Quasthoff offers one of the ...             Greatest Hits HANDEL ~ Water Music, Largo, etc..6 reviews George Frideric Handel, Raymond Leppard, ... Sony, 1994 All Handel's Greatest Hits are not created equal. Nothing else tops this unusually gorgeous rendering. Leppard's is the finest conducting of Handel to this reviewers ears. Especially the Xerxes Largo and the Watermusic Hornpipes and Fireworks Oveurture tempi, legato and orchestration is full of warmth and energy. A true chiara scuro interpretation. Fabulous!!!!             Complete Webern [Box Set]8 reviews Anton Webern, Pierre Boulez, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2000 Thank You Boulez If you are a fan of the "New Vienna School" (Schoenberg, Berg, Webern) or 20th century "classical" or "serious" music, this disk set is very rewarding. Beautifully recorded and packaged, and with equally good liner notes, it is a treat to strap on the headphones and listen. I debated between buying this or Boulez's older Webern set and went with this one. There is much more music on this set ...             Berg: Wozzeck1 review Pierre Boulez 101 DISTRIBUTION, 2009 Best Recording of the First True 20th Century Opera, Finally Back in Print at Budget Price! This is a re-posting of my review of an older edition whose out-of-print scarcity put its price in the 3-figures; its reissue at a bargain price merits this repetition: Forget your 9 Inch Nails, Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth ...or whatever art-rock/noise-punk allows the listener to wallow in dissonant decadent despair. Alban Berg's atonal opera got there first and did it best back in 1924. The ...             György Ligeti: Clear or Cloudy5 reviews Gyorgy Ligeti, Claudio Abbado, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2006 A Fine and Affordable Library of the Works of György Ligeti György Ligeti died in 2006 after a long and productive life as a composer who challenged the creativity of even his most avant-garde colleagues. Teldec produced a magnificent series of CDs, The Ligeti Project, which contain some of the most thrilling performances of the composer's well-known works as well as much of the esoterica: it is big, it is expensive in toto. This 4-disc album, while ...             Elliott Carter: A Symphony of Three Orchestras; Varèse: Deserts; Ecuatorial; Hyperprism7 reviews Elliott Carter, Edgard Varese, ... Sony, 1995 fantastic Carter and Varese, strangely combined Though the combination of Carter and Varese is odd, I can't see giving this disc, part of the superb Sony PIERRE BOULEZ series, anything less than 5 stars. It is the only available recording of Carter's "Symphony for Three Orchestras" (1976 -- 15'41), and the Varese is uniformly excellent as well. It strikes me as simultaneously bizarre and marvelous that Carter's work, which was written to ...             Webern & Varese: Pierre Boulez Edition Pierre Boulez Sony Bmg Europe, 2009             Stravinsky: Pulcinella4 reviews Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Stravinsky, ... CSO Resound, 2010 Grand Master Boulez and the CSO This CD celebrates the fact that this year Pierre Boulez will be 85 -- can you believe that of this one-time enfant terrible? -- and is being fêted by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, designated for this season as the Helen Regenstein Conductor Emeritus, having held the Principal Guest Conductor title since 1995. He began conducting a series of 'birthday' concerts last year (2009) and has brought ...             Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen [Box Set]5 reviews Richard [Classical] Wagner, Pierre Boulez, ... Philips, 2006 A comprehensive look at a legendary "Ring" cycle Given its somewhat dicey reputation, I think many listeners will be astonished at how good this famous Seventies Ring from Boulez sounds when stripped of its visuals. Long available on tape and DVD, it has now been fantasically well remastered for CD. Here is a comprehensive review of each installment. 'Das Rheingold.' Donald McIntyre Wotan ; Hermann Becht Alberich ; Martin Egel Donner ; ...             Bruckner: Symphony 825 reviews Anton Bruckner, Pierre Boulez, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2000 At last, a definative Bruckner Eight The days are gone when recordings of Bruckner's Eighth Symphony were a rarity, but despite that great recordings have remained elusive. Haitink was too dour and the normally relaiable Gunter Wand got into quite a mess on his RCA recording. Karajan's mid 70's version was probably the only reliable choice and his tended towards the rhetorical. Not so with this new Boulez recording. 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