Pierre Boulez: The Musical & Cultural Experimentalist | A Short Portrait - Episode 2
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- The second episode highlights Pierre Boulez's keen interest in music of non-European culture (such as that of Japan and Bali) and how this discovery led to his musical experimentation and his ground-breaking 1955-composition Le Marteau sans Maître, which also drew inspiration from the second Viennese School, especially Anton Webern and Igor Stravinsky.
Watch all episodes from "Pierre Boulez: A Short Portrait" here: dg.lnk.to/boul...
Find out more about the albums and recordings featured in this episode:
- Pierre Boulez: Le Marteau sans maître dgt.link/boule...
- Pierre Boulez: The Conductor - Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon & Philips dgt.link/boule...
About "Pierre Boulez: A Short Portrait":
On this day (5 January), 7 years ago, we lost a Renaissance figure in the history of classical music. To commemorate Pierre Boulez and his panoramically wide influence, DG presents "Pierre Boulez: A Short Portrait" - a video-podcast series with five stunningly visualised episodes that revive the legacy of Pierre Boulez, introducing not only his musical ideology and inspiration as spoken by Boulez himself, but also feature rare TV footage from the 90s, as well as exclusive interviews with Boulez. The voice-over is produced and narrated by Jon Tolansky and accompanied by commentaries by fellow musician Andrew Marriner (LSO’s former principal clarinetist).
About Jon Tolansky:
Formerly a musician at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Jon Tolansky specialises in making documentary features on composers and performers for international radio organisations and recording companies. Prominent among these institutions are the BBC, WQXR New York, the Chicago-based WFMT Radio Network, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio International, EMI Classics, the Decca Music Group, and VAI Records. As an independent producer he has pioneered the first sets of CD series featuring documentary profiles, in which he has personally recorded artists such as Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Mirella Freni, Angela Gheorghiu, Carlo Maria Giulini, Marilyn Horne, Yevgeni Kissin, Luciano Pavarotti, Ruggero Raimondi, Mstislav Rostropovich, Giuseppe di Stefano, Dame Joan Sutherland and Jon Vickers discussing their lives, careers and musical repertoire.
Find out more video-podcasts presented by Jon Tolansky and Deutsche Grammophon:
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau discusses opera roles dg.lnk.to/fisc...
- Mesmerised by Carlos Kleiber dg.lnk.to/carl...
- Claudio Abbado: A Memoir dg.lnk.to/abba...
Production Team
Audio Production & Narration: Jon Tolansky
Video Production: Jue Xi Hong
Supervisor: Johannes Gleim
Transcription: Jue Xi Hong, Jon Tolansky
Subtitles: Jue Xi Hong (English), Olivia Artner (Deutsch)
Special thanks to:
Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien
Andrew Marriner
Alan Newcombe
Nicole Albring
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When he was doing the music thing he operated at stratospheric levels. When he used to come to my house for dinner he was down to Earth. I was always delightfully surprised to receive a postcard from him from concert tour in a foreign land. Although emotionally reserved he did try to be a good, loyal friend.
His music is not instinctive but intellectualized so as to be a piece of sonic sodoku only computers can grasp. .
@@psijicassassin7166 I am sure his music will be well appreciated by the new AI robots being developed
We could do without the crude marketing attempt at the beginning. Why interrupt Boulez's thoughts on musical gesture with this crud?
Ah, so in this video 'Africa' is mentioned once, without any discussion at all of what its relevance might be to Boulez's music, and we get a dumbed-down map with the word 'AFRICA' pasted on top of it. Is this not rather an insult than anything to do with a 'keen interest in music of non-European culture' ?
If you were actually interested wouldn't you have something to say about Africa, rather than just a stupid map?
High brow blaxploitation.
@@psijicassassin7166 So sorry for your misperception. Please try unbiased listening and open up to other worlds than your own.
I mean not to complain but it's astounding how amateur this thing is, given that it's from DG Polygram. You'd think they'd be concerned about how hard it is for their target audience to muster the concentration required to even be able to hear what PB was trying to do (whether you like it or not is another issue) -- it just seems like civilization is going through a tough time right now lol.
I think Boulez's music is extremely hard to understand. For all his cosmopolitanism, it is profoundly french. (I think that explains his obsession with a 'global' career, actually.) It was interesting to hear Stockhausen say that he didn't like Boulez's music at all and couldn't get into it; he said you can't have art that's only 'half of the equation.' A key to PB, for me, was when he publicly
why did it cut off my comment?
@@mirandac8712 length? You can take a second bite if needed ..
Forgettable "music" that any AI can make. Dodecaphonic music is for robots, elevators and garbage tins.
To appreciate the beauty of this, you need to go to the entire work and not judge from snippets of it. After a decade of listening, something marvellous will open up: the inner soft beauty of the expression by the human voice in the context of all metallic, wooden, crispy sounds...The shape of the whole. No amount of AI could have created, invented this!