I love Boulez's orchestration. All that muted brass and percussion! I don't know how he managed to do it, but Notation 7, which is honestly kind of obnoxious in the original piano piece, is one of the most beautiful things he ever wrote here.
"I liked it, HEY MIKEY!!" I`m a texture/timbre kinduh guy and I really enjoyed this. (It`s why I get into Xenakis, too.) The colours are just incredible. I have tried numerous times to get into Elliott Carter and his orchestral pieces, but the pointilistic nature of them leaves my ears cold. I`ve enjoyed other Boulez works over the years, as well. Also, what a great orchestra!
Je decouvre la musique de Pierre Boulez etonnante musique, je suis attire comme un aimant, pouvoir de la musique quelque chose vient quelque chose semble se dessiner a l horizon du monde...
I must say I can't quite believe the people who express delight at listening to this. All the sophistication of the composition results in auditory randmoness (except for the obvious and rather trite rhythmic regularities of Number 4 and 2). When Boulez says that these pieces arrange themselves like a jigsaw puzzle, and that you can arrange them at will, he is contradicting himself. You cannot rearrange a jigsaw puzzle. In the case of Notations you can because it does not matter in which order they are played, because no structure is detectable in any of them, let alone between them. And the reason he gives to play #2 at the end is so vapid: because its loud and energetic. Oh Wow!
Have you not heard of the concept of a grand finale? A showstopping end? A bombastic finish? Like the finale to Turangalila, for example? It might be vapid, but hey, it's music.
@@MalabarTheGreat Yes but if you do what everybody has done since the beginnning of the XIXth century at least, you don't pose as a revolutionary, you don't act like the pompous exegete of your own œuvre.
@@jean-francoisbrunet2031 Great musicians are hardly ever humble. Its just part of the deal. Why does it bother you so much? Genuinely curious, no ill will.
@@MalabarTheGreat He was supremely intelligent, a first rate conductor, but utterly misguided in his creative pursuit. I think that no one will listen to Boulez in half a century. Actually it is already the case. And as a conductor he was smart enough to scatter very few of his own pieces in a very classical repertoire. He was widely considered as incredibely intolerant and arrogant in his youth (in Penser la Musique Aujourd'hui for example), he even confessed as much in his latter days. And finally, he has had too much power, in France at least.
I disagree completely. It can get a little jumbled at times, but as Boulez clearly states, they are just different pieces. It’s completely separate. Comparing the two is a mistake.
Of course every pianist in the room wants to see and hear No.6 .
The beginning of the first piece is one of the most beautiful thing i've ever heard !
No 7th
I just can't express enough gratitude to you for uploading this.
The same ! It is really wonderful !
Yessss
I. 1:06
VII. 3:56
IV. 10:06
III. 12:07
II. 16:36
Thanks~!
II is so good. Orchestration and compactness of the form is so sharp.
I love Boulez's orchestration. All that muted brass and percussion!
I don't know how he managed to do it, but Notation 7, which is honestly kind of obnoxious in the original piano piece, is one of the most beautiful things he ever wrote here.
The power of Perfect 5th, brother.
I play this music to make my hyperactive dog sleepy. Boulez arranges notes usefully.
@@BetonBrutContemporary Amen!
I don't have the words! It's absolutely awesome!
"I liked it, HEY MIKEY!!" I`m a texture/timbre kinduh guy and I really enjoyed this. (It`s why I get into Xenakis, too.) The colours are just incredible. I have tried numerous times to get into Elliott Carter and his orchestral pieces, but the pointilistic nature of them leaves my ears cold. I`ve enjoyed other Boulez works over the years, as well. Also, what a great orchestra!
II is my favourite one!
SO SPICY!
Soooo beautiful!
Je decouvre la musique de Pierre Boulez etonnante musique, je suis attire comme un aimant, pouvoir de la musique quelque chose vient quelque chose semble se dessiner a l horizon du monde...
Sonoridad inédita :puntillista:""atmósfera inaudita ,densa y clara a la vez
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing this.
2:10 that C though
September 10, 2009
Wonderful!
insane pieces '-' this is the most 3:56
Heaven
15:20 a consonant chord? Or at least something close to it.
새로운 음악적 세계가 아름답게 확장되는 느낌이네.
말러나 쉔베르크 음악처럼 안개 가득한 늦가을 새벽 어두운 창가에 앉아 멍때리며 들으면 딱이겠네.
I must say I can't quite believe the people who express delight at listening to this. All the sophistication of the composition results in auditory randmoness (except for the obvious and rather trite rhythmic regularities of Number 4 and 2). When Boulez says that these pieces arrange themselves like a jigsaw puzzle, and that you can arrange them at will, he is contradicting himself. You cannot rearrange a jigsaw puzzle. In the case of Notations you can because it does not matter in which order they are played, because no structure is detectable in any of them, let alone between them. And the reason he gives to play #2 at the end is so vapid: because its loud and energetic. Oh Wow!
Have you not heard of the concept of a grand finale? A showstopping end? A bombastic finish? Like the finale to Turangalila, for example? It might be vapid, but hey, it's music.
@@MalabarTheGreat Yes but if you do what everybody has done since the beginnning of the XIXth century at least, you don't pose as a revolutionary, you don't act like the pompous exegete of your own œuvre.
@@jean-francoisbrunet2031 Great musicians are hardly ever humble. Its just part of the deal. Why does it bother you so much? Genuinely curious, no ill will.
@@MalabarTheGreat He was supremely intelligent, a first rate conductor, but utterly misguided in his creative pursuit. I think that no one will listen to Boulez in half a century. Actually it is already the case. And as a conductor he was smart enough to scatter very few of his own pieces in a very classical repertoire. He was widely considered as incredibely intolerant and arrogant in his youth (in Penser la Musique Aujourd'hui for example), he even confessed as much in his latter days. And finally, he has had too much power, in France at least.
4:26
Elles ne sont pas plus longues qu'au piano ?
Yes, they are very short on the piano version, 10~12 bars(measures) per piece
@@BetonBrutContemporary- all the piano pieces are 12 bars long.
The music of the Ivory Tower.
What is the Ivory Tower? A movie?
@Invité A strange assumption. News to me.
Quelle musique chiante. Je m'ennuie dès la 15ième seconde
La médiocrité n’est pas une fatalité…😇
I like piano version much better. This arrangement sounds cluttered and chaotic. It's a mess.
Agreed
TROB-O-MATIC this is really not true.
I disagree completely. It can get a little jumbled at times, but as Boulez clearly states, they are just different pieces. It’s completely separate. Comparing the two is a mistake.
not so chaotic
That’s not always a bad thing when it comes to the arts