Pierre Boulez - 20th Century - Box Set 44CDs

Label : DG
Format : flac track
Cover : no

Tracklist :

CD 1-8 : Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945)

CD 1:

4 Pieces for Orchestra op. 12 (Sz 51)
Concerto for Orchestra Sz 116

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

CD 2:

Dance Suite Sz 77
Two Pictures op. 10 Sz 46
Hungarian Sketches Sz 97
Divertimento for String Orchestra Sz 113

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

CD 3:

The Miraculous Mandarin op. 19 Sz 73
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Sz 106

Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

CD 4:

Cantata Profana Sz.94 – The Nine Splendid Stags
The Wooden Prince, Sz. 60 (Op.13)

John Aler - tenor, John Tomlinson - baritone
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

CD 5:

The Piano Concertos

No. 1 Krystian Zimerman - piano, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
No. 2 Leif Ove Andsnes - piano, Berliner Philharmoniker
No. 3 Hélène Grimaud - piano, London Symphony Orchestra

CD 6:

Concerto for 2 Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra Sz 115

Tamara Stefanovich - piano 1, Pierre-Laurent Aimard - piano 2
London Symphony Orchestra

Violin Concerto No. 1 Sz 36

Gidon Kremer - violin, Berliner Philharmoniker

Viola Concerto Sz 120

Yuri Bashmet - viola, Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 7:

Violin Concerto No. 2
Rhapsodies Nos. 1 & 2

Gil Shaham - violin, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

CD 8:

Bluebeard's Castle Sz 48

Jessye Norman - Judith, László Polgár - Bluebeard, Nicholas Simon - Prologue
Chicago Symphony Orchestra

CD 9–12 : Alban Berg (1885 - 1935)

CD 9:

Chamber Concerto for Piano and Violin with 13 Wind Instruments

Daniel Barenboim - piano, Pinchas Zukerman - violin
Ensemble Intercontemporain

Lulu-Suite
Wiener Philharmoniker

CD 10–12:

Lulu (Complete opera in 3 acts)

Teresa Stratas, Jane Manning, Anna Ringart, Ursula Boese, Hanna Schwarz, Yvonne Minton, Kenneth Riegel, Claude Meloni, Helmut Pampuch, Pierre-Yves Le Maigat, Jules Bastin, Gerd Nienstedt
Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris

CD 13-14 : Harrison Birtwistle (1934 - )

CD 13:

Theseus Game
Earth Dances

Roland Diry, Hermann Kretzschmar, Márta Fábián, Martyn Brabbins, Pierre Andre Valade
Ensemble Modern

CD 14:

Secret Theatre
Tragoedia
Five Distances
3 Settings of Celan

Christine Whittlesey
Ensemble Intercontemporain

CD 15–19 : ierre Boulez (1925 - 2016)

CD 15:

Notations for piano solo
Structures pour deux pianos / ...explosante-fixe...

Pierre-Laurent Aimard - piano
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez, Sophie Cherrier, Emmanuelle Ophele, Pierre Andre Valade

CD 16:

Le Marteau sans maître (1953 – 1955)
Dérive 1 (1984)
Dérive 2 (1988/2002)

Hilary Summers - soprano
Ensemble Intercontemporain

CD 17:

Pli selon Pli (1957 – 1989)

Christine Schäfer - soprano
Ensemble Intercontemporain

CD 18:

Répons (1981 – 1984)

Dimitri Vassilakis, Hideki Nagano, Florent Boffard, Frédérique Cambreling, Sandrine Chatron, Marianne Le Mentec, Vincent Bauer, Daniel Ciampolini, Michel Cerutti
Ensemble Intercontemporain

Dialogue de l’ombre double (1985)

Alain Damien - clarinet

CD 19:

Sur Incises
Messagesquisse

Jean-Guihen Queyras
Ensemble Intercontemporain

CD 20-21 : Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)

CD 20:

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Images pour Orchestre
Printemps

The Cleveland Orchestra

CD 21:

Trois Nocturnes
Première Rhapsodie pour clarinette et orchestra
Jeux
La Mer

Franklin Cohen - clarinet
The Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus

CD 22-23 : György Ligeti (1923 - 2006)

CD 22:

Chamber Concerto for 13 instrumentalists (1969 – 70)
Ramifications for string orchestra or 12 solo strings (1968 – 69)
Aventures for 3 singers and 7 instrumentalists (1962)
Nouvelles Aventures for 3 singers and 7 instrumentalists

Jane Manning - soprano, Mary Thomas - mezzo-soprano, William Pearson - bass
Ensemble Intercontemporain

CD 23:

Piano Concerto (1985-88)
Cello Concerto (1966)
Violin Concerto (1992)

Pierre-Laurent Aimard - piano, Jean-Guihen Queyras - cello, Saschko Gawriloff - violin
Ensemble InterContemporain

CD 24–25 : Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992)

CD 24:

Poèmes pour Mi
Le Réveil des oiseaux
Sept Haïkaï

Françoise Pollet - soprano, Pierre-Laurent Aimard - piano, Joela Jones - piano
The Cleveland Orchestra

CD 25:

Chronochromie
La Ville d'en haut
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum

The Cleveland Orchestra

CD 26–29 : Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)

CD 26:

Ma Mère l'Oye
Une Barque sur l'océan
Alborada del Gracioso
Rapsodie espagnole
Boléro

Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 27:

Daphnis et Chloé
La Valse

Rundfunkchor Berlin, Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 28:

Piano Concerto in G
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

Krystian Zimerman - piano
The Cleveland Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra

CD 29:

Shéhérazade
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Pavane
Menuet antique

Anne Sofie von Otter - mezzo-soprano

Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
Danses for Harp and Orchestra
5 Poèmes de Charles Baudelaire
3 Ballades de François Villon

Alison Hagley - soprano, Lisa Wellbaum - harp
The Cleveland Orchestra

CD 30–33 Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951)

CD 30:

Pelleas und Melisande op. 5
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 42

Mitsuko Uchida - piano
The Cleveland Orchestra

CD 31:

Pierrot Lunaire op. 21
Herzgewächse op. 20
Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte op. 41

Christine Schäfer - soprano, David Pittman-Jennings - narrator
Ensemble InterContemporain

CD 32-33

Moses und Aron

Chris Merritt, László Polgár, Jan Pollak, Jef van Wersch, Nico Pouw
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Chorus Of The Netherlands Opera

CD 34–39 : Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)

CD 34:

Le Chant du rossignol
L'Histoire du Soldat – Suite
Scherzo fantastique /Le Roi des étoiles

The Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus

CD 35:

The Firebird
Fireworks
4 Etudes for Orchestra

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

CD 36:

Pétrouchka (Originalfassung Original Version: 1911)
Le Sacre du Printemps

The Cleveland Orchestra

CD 37 :

Symphony of Psalms
Symphony in 3 Movements
Symphonies of Wind Instruments

Rundfunkchor Berlin, Berliner Philharmoniker

Harrison Birtwistle (1934 - )
The Triumph of Time

BBC Symphony Orchestra

CD 38:

Ebony Concerto
3 Pieces for Clarinet Solo
Concertino for String Quartet
8 Miniatures
Concerto in E flat for Chamber Orchestra “Dumbarton Oaks”
Elégie for Viola Solo
Epitaphium
Double Canon for String Quartet

Michel Arrignon - clarinet
Ensemble InterContemporain

CD 39: Songs

CD 40: Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937)

Violin Concerto No. 1 op. 35 (1916)
Symphonie No. 3 op. 27 »Song of the night
Piesn o nocy

Christian Tetzlaff - violin, Steve Davislim - tenor
Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Wien, Wiener Philharmoniker

CD 41: Edgar Varèse (1885 - 1965)

Amériques
Arcana
Désert
Ionisation

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

CD 42–44 : Anton Webern (1883 - 1945)

CD 42:

Passacaglia für Orchester op. 1
5 Movements op. 5 (Version for Orchestra)
6 Pieces for Orchestra op. 6
Im Sommerwind/ Fuga (Ricercata)
German Dances

Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 43:

Symphonie op. 21
Cantatas Nos. 1 & 2
3 Songs
Das Augenlicht op. 26
Variations op. 30
5 Pieces for Orchestra

Christiane Oelze - soprano, Gerald Finley - bass
BBC Singers, Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 44:

Songs and Choruses
Piano Quintet (1907)
„Entflieht auf leichten Kähnen“ op. 2, 2 Lieder op. 8
5 Pieces for Orchestra op. 10
4 Lieder op. 13
6 Lieder op. 14
5 Sacred Songs op. 15
5 Canons op. 16
3 Traditional Rhymes op. 17
3 Lieder op. 18
2 Lieder op. 19
Quartet op. 22
Concerto op. 24

Françoise Pollet - soprano, Christiane Oelze - soprano, Pierre-Laurent Aimard - piano
BBC Singers, Ensemble InterContemporain