‘Boulez enthrals South Bank audience in London’

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Liz White

‘He is the most influential composer of the second half of the 20th Century and at 86 Pierre Boulez is still writing new works.’ Last weekend we celebrated the miraculous beauty of Pierre Boulez’s music with Resident Orchestra London Sinfonietta, Artistic Advisor pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Royal Academy of Music and the man himself with his Ensemble [...]

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Come down to Southbank Centre this weekend and try some Boulez

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Liz White

This weekend we celebrate the music of Pierre Boulez. Boulez’s music fuses scientific precision with gorgeous, fluid sound. Boulez himself comments that ‘creation must express a certain transcendence’. He explains that ‘For me a musical idea is like a seed which you plant in compost, and suddenly it begins to proliferate like a weed.’   [...]

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Ravel

Posted on October 19, 2010 by katievickers

Pierre-Laurent Aimard is a pianist who refuses to be pigeon-holed. He can be playing Beethoven one night and a world premiere the next and yet he brings the same clarity of vision to both performances. In his International Piano Series recital tonight he will be demonstrating this remarkable versatility in a programme including music by Beethoven, Chopin, [...]

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