Pierre Boulez, ...explosante-fixe... - Ensemble intercontemporain - Matthias Pintscher

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  • @LendallPitts
    @LendallPitts 8 років тому +40

    These Ensemble intercontemporain performances of Boulez's worksk conducted by Pintscher are simply amazing.

  • @ГалинаБельская-л9х

    Две флейты это восхитительно! Они обворожително звучат, словно вырвались на свободу из недавней темноты.

  • @MIDIPipe
    @MIDIPipe 3 роки тому +3

    Hurray for The Best UA-cam Channel of all times!

  • @pettra1
    @pettra1 4 роки тому +7

    Wonderful music by the now sadly late Pierre Boulez. Played by the supremely gifted Ensemble Intercontemporain. No more need be said really. It's on my bucket list to see them perform live.

  • @MastanehNazarian
    @MastanehNazarian 6 років тому +7

    Music, this music at least for me requires time. Once I give it that, it expands time. At least that becomes my perception of the exchange. This gives a special type of pleasure. At least for me.

  • @muslit
    @muslit 5 років тому +3

    thank god for video, because this music won't be played elsewhere very often.

  • @carpjrs73
    @carpjrs73 Рік тому +5

    I was at this performance!
    Beforehand, I had imbibed two bottles of Sancerre and was in the a perfect state of mind and body to let Boulez’s late period masterpiece pervade my consciousness.
    Back in, I think it was 1995, …explosante-fixe… was one of the first few classical cds that I had purchased; up till then I had only heard some Mozart, Bach, Mahler and Shostakovich.
    This is a truly magnificent piece of music, among the best of the post war avant-garde; also, it is still my favourite Boulez composition.
    The version for two flutes is also superb, and I believe Boulez scored several other versions involving a variety of instrumental forces that I hope will be recorded and released in the future.

    • @psijicassassin7166
      @psijicassassin7166 Рік тому

      Forgettable, unemotional sound arrangements that AI can make. Composers like Boulez make atonal/serial/dissonant "music" to impress other composers and not to communicate to audiences. Pretentious garbage.

    • @carpjrs73
      @carpjrs73 Рік тому

      Perhaps it is as easy as opening some audio software and pressing a button marked “Create 40 minute orchestral work”.
      Who knows?
      This and other music in a variety of genres certainly expanded my idea of what “Organised Sound” could be.

    • @krudensky6239
      @krudensky6239 6 місяців тому

      @@psijicassassin7166 just say you don't like it (or understand it). There's no need for you to picture yourself as an ignorant reactionary on the internet.

    • @ofdrumsandchords
      @ofdrumsandchords 5 місяців тому

      You really like Sancerre. Were you one of the players ? That would explain some errors.
      I heard a C sharp which wasn't in the original score.

    • @epsisphal
      @epsisphal 5 місяців тому

      @@psijicassassin7166 just shut up.

  • @christopherbaileycomposer
    @christopherbaileycomposer 4 роки тому

    This is better than the commercial recording. Much clearer. Clarity is important in this piece, because there's not a lot of harmonic movement. The richness is all in the details.

  • @clarinetjo
    @clarinetjo 7 років тому +14

    Très certainement l'une des musique les plus vivante, sensuelle et expressive que j'ai entendu dans ma vie ! Le soin apporté aux effets d'échos et de "spatialisation", à l'agencement des harmonies et des dynamiques, et à l’instrumentation est merveilleux ! Merci beaucoup !

    • @diktakt1187
      @diktakt1187 5 років тому +3

      Tout ce jargon pour des bruits de casseroles...

    • @rafaelesteban2877
      @rafaelesteban2877 2 роки тому +1

      @@diktakt1187 pauvre type... "dictat-eur"

  • @peterhaley2836
    @peterhaley2836 5 років тому +1

    thanks for the upload Boulez + Pintscher great sound

  • @ShoyuTao
    @ShoyuTao 8 років тому +4

    Astonishing musicianship.

  • @charlesboyle9223
    @charlesboyle9223 Рік тому

    Wonderful!

  • @phoebeamos7747
    @phoebeamos7747 2 місяці тому

    I like the way Boulez uses coherent little motifs, very unlike the extreme density, even opacity of his contemporaries. His charming little Derridan deconstructions/drop-outs serving as cadences at the ends of several sections are particularly endearing. Tres reveur!

  • @gerardbegni2806
    @gerardbegni2806 7 років тому +9

    A perfect interpretation of this piece in which Boulez draws cloer to "traditional" concerto forms.

  • @docsketchy
    @docsketchy 7 років тому +17

    I've been listening to a lot of Boulez lately, as well as many other "dodecaphonic" composers. The thing that amazes me about Boulez is that, even though he avoids tonality more or less completely, his music is never discordant. Often dissonant, of course, but never discordant. His notes never sound "wrong". I would like to know how he achieves that. Perhaps I will discover the secret as I continue to read Wuorinen's "Simple Composition."

    • @JohnBorstlap
      @JohnBorstlap 7 років тому +2

      But that has a simple reason. The reason why PB never sounds discordant, is because there are no dissonances in his work. A dissonance is a tonal effect in relation to consonance. When you 'emancipate' the dissonant, as Schoenberg thought he was doing, you don't emancipate it, but cancel it. There is also no harmonic dynamics in PB, because all tones have a similar 'weight', they are all 'equalized' and he always tries to avoid as much as possible the suggestion of tonal relationships, hence the wide skips, minimal fragments (Derive 1 & 2), unexpected stops and sudden tempi, etc. etc. It is all writing AROUND the tonal system not only as it exists in music life but also as it exists in the aural acculturation of audiences of music. It is thoroughly static, moment after moment, without any clear logic. (The logic and its justifications are on paper but are not in the listening experience.)

    • @docsketchy
      @docsketchy 7 років тому

      Try to improvise this sort of music on the piano. You will see just how wrong you are about it.

    • @JohnBorstlap
      @JohnBorstlap 7 років тому

      I tried, and indeed it can be done. But it is not so interesting. The achievement lies in writing-out a differentiated notation which can render such improvisation in a musical 'text', and THAT is an achievement indeed. But it is not a music achievement, but a notational one.

    • @docsketchy
      @docsketchy 7 років тому +5

      Perhaps "dissonant" is the wrong word to use. How about "harsh" or "ugly"? There is nothing "ugly" in Boulez's music (I have listened to nearly all of it now, as I've been listening to little else since I acquired the "Oeuvres Completes" last week). Most of it is quite beautiful, and I believe that this is due to his note choices.
      Also, few composers are capable of writing such exhilarating virtuoso passages for solo instruments. I'm especially taken with some of the "competition" pieces, such as "Anthemes" (for solo violin) and "Domaines" (for solo clarinet) and "Incises" (for piano). Really thrilling stuff. Not "academic" or "dry" at all.

    • @JohnBorstlap
      @JohnBorstlap 7 років тому

      docsketchy
      Maybe not, but such virtuosity is, it seems to me, a virtuosity of patterns, not of musical elements: the notes are thrown like confetti in gestures at a wedding party. It is to be enjoyed, surely. My point is always: it is not music and claims to the opposite are destructive to both sonic art and music.
      I like the beginning of Pli selon Pli, and the later scored version of Notations, and there are other pieces that are nice like Memoriale and Rituel, and Eclat-multiples. But music offers so much more... there is no deeper, emotional dimension to mere pattern making. It may not be dry, but I find it cool, in the literal sense, like the modernist quarter La Défense in Paris. I prefer the old Parisian cityscape, also in terms of music, it has so much more character. But if this is your first exploration of B's work, I would encourage listening to it, all such experiences are important.

  • @xavierlemblun8446
    @xavierlemblun8446 Рік тому

    Musique etonnante je decouvre le compositeur Pierre Boulez depuis peu assez reticant au depart j avoue peu a peu decouvrir un nouveau monde sonore , cette musique exprime a mes yeux l au dela des mots , le pressentiment d un autre monde, quelque chose vient...J aurais aime savoir si Pierre Boulez croyait en Dieu...

  • @ermesrosina8484
    @ermesrosina8484 3 роки тому

    Beautiful piece!

  • @andreasmazur4352
    @andreasmazur4352 2 роки тому +1

    WOOOOW Félicitation à tous, quelle interprétation géniale,
    je puisse la révoir et révoir - ce super vidéo je veux dire...
    je n' oubliera jamais votre prestation à Berlin 17/06/2017
    à 7 heures du soir (7 pm) dans la salle Pierre Boulez
    de la Barenboim Said Akademie - CIn Cin Emmanuelle, un très grand MERCI à toi Sophie
    et mes complimenents à Matteo Cesari.
    Salut de Berlin.

  • @julienmussot5565
    @julienmussot5565 5 років тому +1

    They scotcth me. Bravo !

  • @7171Julian
    @7171Julian 4 роки тому +6

    It requires a lot of concentration on the part of the listener, this piece of music by Boulez does, but when listened to with the necessary attention, it is highly rewarding.

    • @willduffay2207
      @willduffay2207 3 роки тому +2

      What do you attend to? What are you concentrating on?

    • @maxsilva11
      @maxsilva11 2 роки тому

      I think what I love about Boulez is that his music can be rewarding even without any concentration or attention. At least with late Boulez, there's plenty of interesting structural stuff that can be appreciated just by listening closely, even if you're not able to grasp much of the actual pitch structure or underlying canonic structures, etc. But there's also just so much strange beauty and shimmery elegance to his textures.
      This is one of the few major late pieces I don't have a solid grasp on (as in, I can't picture the whole layout of what happens in my head, and I probably wouldn't know where in the piece we were if you played a random except, the way that I'd be able to with Repons or Derive 2 or Anthemes 2). Nevertheless, I find it all very pleasant sounding. Right now, for instance, it's background music while I read (and type this comment); later I might use it in my gym soundtrack. Perhaps it's an acquired taste, and maybe the acquisition process usually involves some focused, guided, and/or score- or sketch-informed listening; but I'd still wager many people did get into Boulez just because it sounds pretty, and many more people would if they felt more comfortable with not having to "understand" music before feeling it out and enjoying it.

    • @psijicassassin7166
      @psijicassassin7166 Рік тому +1

      This is perfect everyday white noise for cleaning the house since it is emotionally uninvolving.

  • @muslit
    @muslit 5 років тому +1

    this must be a joy to play.

  • @julienmussot5565
    @julienmussot5565 5 років тому +3

    To me second movement is little oppressing atmospher with these three flutes traversière. Amazing.

  • @mimihammani9801
    @mimihammani9801 8 років тому +7

    l'imagination de Pierre Boulez m'incarne de nouveaux monde visuelles ...dommage que je n'ai jamais pu le rencontrer live...malgré qu'on est dans la meme ville pendant un certain temps. God bless you.

    • @renelair1645
      @renelair1645 5 років тому +1

      très peu facile d accès anyway !

    • @nassersari2797
      @nassersari2797 4 роки тому +1

      @@renelair1645 imbu de lui-même aussi, après nous et le sérialisme strict , le déluge.

    • @MegaCirse
      @MegaCirse 3 роки тому

      @@nassersari2797 Grotesque !

  • @thewomanwithnohead
    @thewomanwithnohead 8 років тому +5

    Un génie, et une manière tellement unique de composer !
    La lecture de son livre, entretiens avec Michel Archimbault, m'a bluffé !

    • @JohnBorstlap
      @JohnBorstlap 7 років тому

      If you still had your head on, you might think differently about this work.

    • @thewomanwithnohead
      @thewomanwithnohead 7 років тому

      I had a head back then, 7 months ago, but my opinion didn't changed at all ;)

    • @JohnBorstlap
      @JohnBorstlap 7 років тому +1

      Good for you...... PB was, in my opinion, not a genius, at least not in terms of music: he was an explorer of sound art (Klangkunst), which is an art form of pure sound, and the aesthetics focus on the colourful patterns as such. For that reason, any note can be changed without any difference to the result. But music - real music - is much more than sound patterns: in music these patterns carry emotional meaning, they create an inner space where narrative movement can take place, and you cannot change a note, because they have been carefully chosen for their relationships with other notes. Compare PB with Debussy (for instance, La Mer) and you hear the difference between sound art and music. With the Debussy, there is an entire dimension on top of the sonic dimension: there is a narrative, drama, building-up towards climaxes and relaxing from them, etc. etc. So much richer in experience, also in sonic terms.... but as music.

    • @thewomanwithnohead
      @thewomanwithnohead 7 років тому

      Interesting ! I'm glad you explained your point of view, because I pretty much agree with that too !
      When I said he was a "genius/unique composer" to me, I was refering to Sound art and not really about music. I see them as two different domains, and I do appreciate harmonies and ambiences in music a lot (like you said) as much as I appreciate experimental avant-garde & concrete stuff in sound art.
      So ... Yeah, there's a whole full world of interesting musical vibes to please our ears (or not) ;) !

    • @JohnBorstlap
      @JohnBorstlap 7 років тому

      The Woman With No Head
      Agreed.....! There are sometimes truly beautiful works in sound art, they make you aware of patterns in a focussed way that in music are only part of the total experience. For instance, 'Coptic Light' by Feldman, with its strange beauties, or Boulez' Notations (orchestral version). My problem is where people confuse the two art forms, claim musical space, and get angry when audiences, expecting music, are not responsive - or get angry when the difference between the two fields is pointed-out to them. Pluralism is good, but intrusion less so.

  • @stephenjablonsky1941
    @stephenjablonsky1941 2 роки тому

    It will be interesting to see how the test of time treats this amazing piece. I won't be here in 50 years so I will leave it up to you to find out. Pierre's music is always very busy, much like his mind. Calm, quiet, and content were not his bag.

    • @pikachuchujelly7628
      @pikachuchujelly7628 7 місяців тому

      I think it will always be treated as a novelty. Serialist music began in the early 20th century, but still hasn't caught on after 100 years (except in academic circles, where people enjoy analyzing music more than listening to it).

  • @fmogini
    @fmogini 9 років тому +6

    impeccable performance

    • @JohnBorstlap
      @JohnBorstlap 7 років тому +1

      How could you know? One could easily change all kinds of notes and intervals, without making any difference in the result. These are virtuosic gestures with random notes organized as to fill-out the gesture, imitating 'expression'.

    • @fmogini
      @fmogini 7 років тому

      if you know the score well, what seem random is actually recognisable so you can say if it was accurate. What I meant is that it is well played as it is not easy to have electronics and acoustics that listen to each other.
      That being said, the computer parts has (controlled) random elements...and yes, the writing of the music variations/imitations is in a way very similar to what algorithmic writing can do so in certain places, certain notes could be shuffled in a different order without causing problems.

    • @JohnBorstlap
      @JohnBorstlap 7 років тому +2

      Fabrice Mogini
      It seems clear to me that the reason why this does not cause problems, is that the notes operate exclusively within the dimension of sound, which means that the result is 'flat', the notes don't create an 'inner space' where the notes relate to each other. Sonic art is flat in the way abstract painting is flat: it is one-dimensional. Figurative painting creates an imagined inner space with the suggestion of depth: a 'space', the same with music. That is why in music things like narrative and rhetoric are possible, and effects of expression which go beyond the flat surface of sound. Figurative painting and tonal music are mimetic in nature, and abstract painting and sonic art are not mimetic but present patterns as such... nothing wrong with it, but it is something different from figurative painting and music, which are both mimetic art forms.

    • @SeanPi314
      @SeanPi314 7 років тому +2

      In my humble opinion, these are different approaches toward expression, just as different languages. Nothing related to its meaningfulness/meaninglessness.

    • @JohnBorstlap
      @JohnBorstlap 7 років тому

      SeanPi314
      The difference is in what works offer in terms of experience.... sonic art is something like 'half music', it misses an entire dimension. Indeed that has nothing to do with meaning since sonic art has different intentions than music, BUT where sonic art claims performance space in musical concerts, which the players almost always don't like at all, not to say about audiences who expect something which is not there, THEN the problem of meaning suddenly becomes an issue: a work is presented as music which it is not, and the rubbing of 2 worlds creates irritation on both sides.

  • @auscomvic9900
    @auscomvic9900 4 роки тому

    Who could deny that this is great music?

  • @julianbroadhurst8287
    @julianbroadhurst8287 5 років тому +6

    Fabulous - Ahhh drink it in - the colour of Genius !

  • @didierschein8515
    @didierschein8515 3 роки тому +1

    Oeuvre envoùtante... Le titre serait-il une allusion à l'Amour fou d'André Breton ?

  • @ptyxs
    @ptyxs 3 роки тому

    Quelle merveille !!

  • @xenophobia1961
    @xenophobia1961 6 років тому +1

    Question:
    Regarding the Pierre Boulez: “…explosante-fixe…” a work for MIDI flute solo, live electronics, and chamber ensemble. Does anyone know about this ‘midi flute’ and it’s function. Exactly what does 'the midi flute' do in this performance?

    • @christopherbaileycomposer
      @christopherbaileycomposer 4 роки тому

      Listen to the commerical recording, you can hear the fake flute WAY more. And frankly it's annoying, this is a much better balance.

  • @karimhabet6404
    @karimhabet6404 4 роки тому

    tres belle preformance

  • @SalvaTorre
    @SalvaTorre 2 роки тому +1

    La beauté sera
    convulsive,
    érotique-voilée,
    explosante-fixe,
    magique-, circonstancielle,
    ou ne sera pas..

  • @MarceloSantos-tm8zc
    @MarceloSantos-tm8zc 4 роки тому +1

    Som da flauta maravilhoso

  • @redhairedstepchild
    @redhairedstepchild 8 років тому +5

    rip Mr Boulez

  • @MegaCirse
    @MegaCirse 2 роки тому +2

    Boulez, a pupil of Messiaen, was a lion in a cage!!

  • @HiggsBoson82
    @HiggsBoson82 9 років тому +9

    explosante-fixe...masterpiece...

  • @mark-j-adderley
    @mark-j-adderley 6 років тому

    A study in static activity, a bit like static electricity; truly exiting, highly active, but going nowhere. How to sit still and simultaneously travel the world.

  • @odileschaller4364
    @odileschaller4364 2 роки тому

    Il en ressort que, peut-ètre, Boulez a été au XXè siècle ce que Cabanel a été au XIXè...

    • @ofdrumsandchords
      @ofdrumsandchords 5 місяців тому

      Quelque chose me dit que ce n'est pas un compliment. L'avenir le dira, mais pas à nous.
      Nous serons trop morts pour ça. C'est difficile à écouter, mais je suis content que des compositeurs se donnent tant de mal quand j'entends la daube qui se fait aujourd'hui.

  • @Thoraxziod
    @Thoraxziod 9 років тому +2

    Awesome piece; Boulez's wind and reed is like Wagner was with brass.

    • @Thoraxziod
      @Thoraxziod 9 років тому

      +Thoraxziod But, what happens around 13 min? Is it a recording?

    • @ShoyuTao
      @ShoyuTao 8 років тому

      +Thoraxziod... Prepared tape.

    • @Thoraxziod
      @Thoraxziod 8 років тому

      +ShoyuTao Thanks

    • @JohnBorstlap
      @JohnBorstlap 7 років тому +1

      Crazy comparison. Boulez wrote sound, Wagner wrote music: that is, sound as a carrier of emotional meaning.

    • @Thoraxziod
      @Thoraxziod 7 років тому

      What was I comparing? - emotional meaning? sound vs music? or something else? - we will never know

  • @MegaCirse
    @MegaCirse 3 роки тому

    Boulez, élève de Messiaen, était un lion en cage !!!

  • @xenophobia1961
    @xenophobia1961 6 років тому

    I'm very interested in this music, but anybody please tell me exactly what the MIDI flute does in this performance.

    • @christianserre1305
      @christianserre1305 4 роки тому

      Probably for spatial repartition and to modify the timbre.

    • @xenophobia1961
      @xenophobia1961 4 роки тому

      @@christianserre1305 Thank you for teaching.

  • @muslit
    @muslit 5 років тому +1

    With a non-oriented-goal music, the silence after the last sound is the most rewarding.

  • @machida5114
    @machida5114 2 роки тому

    sodelicious.......

  • @argus2k
    @argus2k 7 років тому +1

    1:46 Tan Messianico pasaje, sera un guiño directo?

  • @gepmrk
    @gepmrk 4 роки тому +1

    I hear a DX7

  • @norberttchouimsty9697
    @norberttchouimsty9697 4 роки тому +1

    George Lucas au violoncelle à gauche...

  • @muslit
    @muslit 5 років тому +5

    If I hear another trill again I'll die.

  • @sergejpels9670
    @sergejpels9670 2 роки тому

    сижу под берёзой, пью пиво, слушаю Boulez'а... и вдруг
    из-за берёзы вылез чёрт... а потом ещё один, и ещё... бл. стая целая...
    Вот не знаю от чего :пиво или музыка.. скорее всего и то и другое... 🙄
    шутка...

  • @omerberkman539
    @omerberkman539 5 років тому +2

    I feel compassionate for the 17
    individuals.

  • @rock9529
    @rock9529 5 років тому +1

    Initially It was a 5 minutes piece, but Boulez thought that it would be rather a shame having all this muscicians gathered to play such a short piece of music, and so he enlarged it untill it reached a duration of 30 minutes and thats why the whole composition sounds flat & identical. Try pointing any random moment of the recording, compare and find out for yourself.

  • @psijicassassin7166
    @psijicassassin7166 Рік тому

    This piece sounds outdated. This was already old hat in the 1960s.

  • @rori219
    @rori219 8 років тому +1

    Vaya pestiño!!!!

  • @l2084
    @l2084 8 років тому +6

    La musique qu'on écoute en Enfer

    • @JohnBorstlap
      @JohnBorstlap 7 років тому

      Correct. Il n'y a pas de la musique en enfer, seulement de l'art sonique.

    • @ludoviclagache3132
      @ludoviclagache3132 4 роки тому

      Exposante fixe est pourrait être un enfer paradisiaque étant flûtiste depuis plus de 40 ans ....
      Je pense que cette oeuvre magistrale se suffit à elle même
      On ne doit pas l aimer ou pas
      Elle existe tout comme l univers
      Existe...♥️

  • @andrebenbaruk1707
    @andrebenbaruk1707 3 роки тому +1

    La musique du chaos de laquelle l audition achevée on ne retient rien qu une impression désagréable. Comment passe t on de bach a boulez ? De ravel à boulez ? Une civilisation qui s effondre qui s est effondre. Une hyper technicité au service du chaos .

    • @julienjulien6228
      @julienjulien6228 3 роки тому

      On peut craindre que ce ne soit vous qui vous effondriez...

    • @xavierlemblun8446
      @xavierlemblun8446 Рік тому

      Oui une civilisation s effondre cette musique l exprime nous y sommes je crois plus de 600 ans d histoire de la musique occidentale de Monteverdi a Pierre Boulez...

  • @Khalil1.3
    @Khalil1.3 3 роки тому +2

    C degueulasse

  • @karlkinono
    @karlkinono 7 років тому +5

    C'est franchement rasoir

    • @arthlek2607
      @arthlek2607 6 років тому +1

      Haha, je te rencontrerai partout où j'écoute de la Musique, impressionnant haha

  • @yPhil
    @yPhil 6 років тому +1

    Wow, c'est pas seulement suprêmement ennuyeux, mais aussi fort désagréable, bravo! Animals are laughing at us :D

  • @muslit
    @muslit 5 років тому +1

    I didn't enjoy the harmony.

  • @muslit
    @muslit 5 років тому

    one flute is boring enough, but three?