Composer, Conductor, Enigma

DISC ONE:
PIERRE BOULEZ
1 Sonatine for Flute and Piano, Op. 1 (1946; revised 1949) Severino Gazzelloni: flute; David Tudor: piano
Piano Sonata No.
2 (1948) Yvonne Loriod: piano
2 Extrêmement rapide (extremely fast) 3 Lent (slow)
4 Modéré, presque vif (moderate, almost lively)
5 Vif (lively)

Polyphonie X for Ensemble (195051); withdrawn.
6 Modéré
7 Lent
8 Vif
Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hans Rosbaud

Polyphonie X for Ensemble (195051); withdrawn.
9 Polyphonie X (Part 1)
Symphony Orchestra of the RAI (Radiotelevisione italiana) Conductor: Bruno Maderna

Deux études de musique concréte For Magnetic Tape (1951-2)
10 Étude 1 Sur un son
11 Étude 2 Sur un accord de sept sons

DISC TWO:

PIERRE BOULEZ
Le Soleil des eaux (The Sun and the Waters) for Soprano, Chorus and Orchestra (1948; revised 1950; revised 1958; revised 1965); text: two poems by René Char
1 Complainte du lézard amoureux
2 La Sorgue (Chanson pour Yvonne)
Irène Joachim: soprano; Joseph Peyron: tenor; Pierre Mollet: baritone. RTF National Orchestra Conductor: Roger Désormière

Structures Book 1 for Two Pianos (195152)
3 Premier mouvement
4 Deuxième mouvement
5 Troisième mouvement
Aloys Kontarsky, Alfons Kontarsky: pianos

Le Marteau sans maître for Alto Voice and Six Instruments (195355; revised 1957)
6 Avant lArtisanat furieux
7 Commentaire I de Bourreaux de solitude
8 LArtisanat furieux
9 Commentaire II de Bourreaux de solitude
10 Bel édifice et les pressentiments, double
11 Bourreaux de solitude
12 Après LArtisanat furieux
13 Commentaire III de Bourreaux de solitude
14 Bel édifice et les pressentiments Double
Marie-Thérèse Cahn: contralto. Solistes du Domaine Musical. Conductor: Pierre Boulez
15 La Symphonie mécanique musique concrète, for a film by Jean Mitry (1955)
16 Poésie pour pouvoir (Poems for Power), for Orchestra and Tape,
(from the Poem by Henri Michaux) (1955/58); withdrawn
Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductors: Hans Rosbaud, Pierre Boulez.
Michel Bouquet: voice

DISC THREE:

PIERRE BOULEZ
Pli selon pli (Fold by Fold), for Soprano and Orchestra
(195758, as Improvisations sur Mallarmé I and II; completed 195962;
revised 1983; revised 1989)
1 Pli selon pli: No. 2, Improvisation I sur Mallarmé
2 Pli selon pli: No. 3, Improvisation II sur Mallarmé Eva Maria Rogner: soprano; Maria Bergmann: piano. Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Roma. Conductor: Pierre Boulez

3 Tombeau à la mémoire du Prince Max Egon zu Fürstenberg (1959)
Eva-Maria Rogner: soprano. Ensemble Domaine Musical Paris. Conductor: Pierre Boulez

Structures Book II for Two Pianos (1961)
4 Chapitre I
5 Chapitre II / Version 1
6 Chapitre II / Version 2
Yvonne Loriod, Piere Boulez: pianos
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
7 Kontra-Punkte for Ten Instruments, Op. 1 (1952-1953)
Solistes du Domaine musical. Conductor: Pierre Boulez
ANTON WEBERN
Symphony, Op.21 (1928)
8 Ruhig schreitend
9 Variationen
Orchestre du Domaine musical. Conductor: Pierre Boulez

DISC FOUR:

IGOR STRAVINSKY
1 Concertino for Twelve Instruments (arrangement of the original work for a string quartet (1920), made by Igor Stravinsky in 1952)
Conductor: Pierre Boulez
2 Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920,
version 1947)
Orchestre du Domaine musical. Conductor: Pierre Boulez
EDGARD VARÈSE
3 Intégrales for Orchestra and Percussion (1923-1925)
Orchestre du Domaine musical. Conductor: Pierre Boulez
LUCIANO BERIO
4 Serenata 1 for Flute and Fourteen Instruments (1957)
Severino Gazzeloni: flute. Conductor: Pierre Boulez
LUIGI NONO
5 Incontri, for Twenty-Four Instruments Orchestre Du Domaine Musical. Conductor: Pierre Boulez
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
6 Zeitmasse (Time Measures), for Five Woodwinds Op.5 (1956)
Conductor: Pierre Boulez
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Septet (Suite) in E flat major, Op. 29 (1926)
7 Ouverture. Allegretto. Sehr flott
8 Tanzschritte
9 Thema mit Variationen 10 Gigue
Conductor: Pierre Boulez