Top 5 Favourite Boulez Works

Started by ComposerOfAvantGarde, November 27, 2016, 05:13:40 PM

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ComposerOfAvantGarde

You know the drill  ;)

Répons
Sur Incises
Le marteau sans maître
Pli Selon Pli
Dérive I
Piano Sonata no. 3
Notations pour grand orchestre
cummings ist der dichter
Anthèmes II
"...explosante-fixe..."
Messagesquisse
Domaines II
Dialogue de l'ombre double


ritter

Not an easy one, but let's give it a try:

- Le marteau sans maître
- Pli selon pli
- Second piano sonata
- Répons
- Mémoriale (... explosante-fixe ... Originel)


Honoorable mention for Le soleil des eaux and the orchestral Notations.

Cheers,

ComposerOfAvantGarde

Quote from: Thatfabulousalien on November 27, 2016, 11:30:39 PM
Pli Salone Pli
Piano Sonata no 2
Sur Incises
Notations (either versions)
Le Marteau Sans Maitre
I think saying either version of Notations counts as cheating because both are so very different from one another! 5 maximum! :P

North Star

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Gurn Blanston

I've got a bootleg recording from 1975 of him conducting the NYPO in Beethoven's 9th. I guess that is my favorite... :)

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ritter

Quote from: Gurn Blanston on November 28, 2016, 06:11:14 AM
I've got a bootleg recording from 1975 of him conducting the NYPO in Beethoven's 9th. I guess that is my favorite... :)

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I would have expected you to choose his recording of Haydn's Symphony No. 104 from Vienna... ;)

Gurn Blanston

Quote from: ritter on November 28, 2016, 06:23:11 AM
I would have expected you to choose his recording of Haydn's Symphony No. 104 from Vienna... ;)

Haven't heard it, although it sounds intriguing. Thanks. :)

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PS - the bootleg 9th recording is a rarity!  0:)
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Sergeant Rock

Notations pour grand orchestre
Répons
Le marteau sans maître
Pli Selon Pli
Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna


Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
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James

Piano Sonata 1 (1946)
Piano Sonata 2 (1947-48)
Piano Sonata 3 (1955-57/63)
...explosante-fixe... (1991-93)
Sur Incises (1996-98)
Action is the only truth

Mahlerian

In chronological order:

Piano Sonata No. 2
Le Marteau sans maitre
Pli selon pli
Notations for orchestra
Sur Incises
"l do not consider my music as atonal, but rather as non-tonal. I feel the unity of all keys. Atonal music by modern composers admits of no key at all, no feeling of any definite center." - Arnold Schoenberg

springrite

Répons
Le marteau sans maître
Pli Selon Pli
cummings ist der dichter
"...explosante-fixe..."
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

ComposerOfAvantGarde

Quote from: springrite on November 28, 2016, 10:18:58 PM
Répons
Le marteau sans maître
Pli Selon Pli
cummings ist der dichter
"...explosante-fixe..."

You have good taste, my friend. 8)

Gaspard de la nuit

Répons
...explosante-fixe...
Ritual in memoriam Bruno Maderna
Notations for Orchestra
Sur incises