Boulez The Conductor - Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon and Decca - Box Set 84CDs

 

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Pierre Boulez' legacy as a conductor includes plenty of exceptional recordings: his Mahler Symphony cycle, the Chéreau "Bayreuth Centenary Ring " from 1976-1980, his take on classic 20th century composers from Bartok to Stravinsky to mention some highlights. Being a splendid intellectual, Boulez was regarded as a "national cultural institution" in France during his lifetime and celebrated all over the world as a conductor of outstanding clarity, analytical thinking and absolute precision of execution. Boulez is a central musical figure of the 20th century.

84 CD Original Jackets Collection: the first edition to comprise all of Pierre Boulez’ recordings as a conductor on Deutsche Grammophon, Philips and Decca

Includes a legendary staging on video: the unrivaled Bayreuth Centenary Ring by Boulez/Chéreau on 4 Blu-ray Discs in HD-quality, with audio layers in 24-bit PCM Stereo 2.0 and Surround 5.1

Presents Boulez’ benchmark recordings of Bartók, Mahler, Ravel, Stravinsky, Schoenberg and others

Insightful bonus material: first international release of the interview CD Pierre Boulez on Debussy, Mahler, Webern

Tracklist :

BARTÓK

CD 1 4 Orchestral Pieces · Concerto for Orchestra

CD 2 Dance Suite · 2 Pictures · Hungarian Sketches · Divertimento

CD 3 The Miraculous Mandarin · Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

CD 4 Cantata profana Aler · Tomlinson · The Wooden Prince

CD 5 Piano Concertos

CD 6 Concerto for 2 Pianos / Violin Concerto No. 1 / Viola Concerto

CD 7 Violin Concerto No. 2 / Violin Rhapsodies Nos. 1 & 2

CD 8 Bluebeard’s Castle

CD 9 BERG: Chamber Concerto · Lulu Suite

CD 10–12 BERG: Lulu

CD 13 BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique · Tristia

CD 14–15 BERLIOZ: Roméo and Juliette · Les Nuits d’été

CD 16 BIRTWISTLE: Theseus Game · Earth Dances

CD 17 BIRTWISTLE: Tragoedia · 5 Distances · 3 Settings of Celan

BOULEZ

CD 18 Notations · Structures, Livre II · …explosante-fixe…

CD 19 Le Marteau sans maitre · Dérive 1 · Dérive 2

CD 20 Pli selon Pli

CD 21 Répons / Dialogue de l’ombre double

CD 22 Sur Incises / Messagesquisse / Anthèmes 2

CD 23 BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 8

CD 24 DEBUSSY: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune · Images · Printemps

CD 25 DEBUSSY: Nocturnes · Première Rhapsodie · Jeux · La Mer

CD 26 LIGETI: Chamber Concerto · Ramifications · Aventures · Nouvelles Aventures

CD 27 LIGETI: Piano Concerto / Cello Concerto / Violin Concerto

CD 28 LISZT: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 · Consolation No. 3 · Valse oubliée No. 1

MAHLER

CD 29 Symphony No. 1 “Titan” · Totenfeier

CD 30 Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”

CD 31–32 Symphony No. 3 / Das klagende Lied

CD 33 Symphony No. 4 Banse

CD 34 Symphony No. 5

CD 35 Symphony No. 6 “Tragic”

CD 36 Symphony No. 7

CD 37–38 Symphony No. 8 “Symphony of a Thousand”

CD 39 Symphony No. 9

CD 40 Des Knaben Wunderhorn / Symphony No. 10

CD 41 Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen / Rückert-Lieder / Kindertotenlieder

CD 42 Das Lied von der Erde

CD 43 Symphony No. 6 “Tragic”

CD 44 MESSIAEN: Poèmes pour Mi / Le Réveil des oiseaux / Sept Haikai

CD 45 MESSIAEN: Chronochromie / La Ville d’en haut / Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum

CD 46 MOZART: Gran Partita · BERG: Chamber Concerto

RAVEL

CD 47 Ma Mère l’oye / Une Barque sur l’océan / Alborada del gracioso / Rhapsodie espagnole / Boléro

CD 48 Daphnis et Chloé / La Valse

CD 49 Piano Concerto / Valses nobles et sentimentales / Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

CD 50 Shéhérazade / Le Tombeau de Couperin / Pavane pour une infante défunte / DEBUSSY: Danses

SCHOENBERG

CD 51 Pelleas und Melisande / Piano Concerto

CD 52 Pierrot lunaire / Herzgewächse / Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte

CD 53–54 Moses und Aron

CD 55 SCRIABIN: Le Poème de l’extase · Piano Concerto / Prométhée – Le Poème du feu

CD 56 STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra · MAHLER: Totenfeier

STRAVINSKY

CD 57 Scherzo fantastique / Le Roi des étoiles / Le Chant du Rossignol / L’Histoire du Soldat

CD 58 L’Oiseau de feu / Feu d’artifice / 4 Études

CD 59 Pétrouchka / Le Sacre du printemps

CD 60 Symphonies d’instruments à vent / Symphonie de psaumes / BIRTWISTLE: The Triumph of Time

CD 61 Ebony Concerto / Concertino / 8 Instrumental Miniatures / “Dumbarton Oaks” / Double Canon

CD 62 Songs

CD 63 SZYMANOWSKI: Violin Concerto No. 1 / Symphony No. 3 “Song of the Night”

CD 64 VARÈSE: Amériques / Arcana / Déserts / Ionisation

WAGNER: Der Ring des Nibelungen

CD 65–66 Das Rheingold

CD 67–69 Die Walküre

CD 70–72 Siegfried

CD 73–76 Götterdämmerung

CD 77–79 WAGNER: Parsifal

WEBERN

CD 80 Passacaglia / Movements / 6 Pieces for Orchestra / Bach & Schubert Orchestrations

CD 81 5 Pieces for Orchestra / 3 Orchestral Songs / Symphony / Cantata Nos. 1 & 2 / Variations

CD 82 Piano Quintet / Entflieht auf leichten Kähnen / 5 Pieces for Orchestra / Songs / Quartet / Concerto

BONUS

CD 83 Pierre Boulez on Debussy, Mahler, Weber [interview with musical excerpts]

CD 84 RAVEL Piano Concerto / Piano Concerto for the Left Hand & WAGNER: Prelude from Tristan und Isolde