Wednesday, March 20, 2024

CMXXXI. BOULEZ, Pierre: Structures II

CMXXXI. BOULEZ, Pierre (1925-2016)

Structures II (1961)
Chapter 1 (8:59)
Chapter 2 (13:05)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Florent Boffard, piano

"I wanted to eradicate from my vocabulary absolutely every trace of the conventional, whether it concerned figures and phrases, or development and form; I then wanted gradually, element after element, to win back the various stages of the compositional process, in such a manner that a perfectly new synthesis might arise, a synthesis that would not be corrupted from the very outset by foreign bodies -- stylistic reminiscences in particular. -- PB

PB, piano
Florent Boffard, piano
[scrolling score]
(22:02)

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