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I haven't heard any of the originals, but my reactions to the CD program range from unqualified wow to unqualified wow. Two of them are further linked through their dedication to one of the great musical patrons, the Swiss conductor Paul Sacher. It took me decades before I came around to this piece, and then only because I'd heard other Boulez works without his critical "help" in the meantime.Īll the works on this program began as solo pieces: Sur Incises as a work for solo piano Anthès 2 for solo violin Messagesquisse for solo cello. I became so angry at this flummery that the program note actually got in the way of my hearing the music. If you actually know what "Brownian motion" means, you'd more likely call it meadowmuffins.
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If you found yourself in a kind mood, you'd call it poetry. I recall in particular one composer-supplied program note to a Cleveland Orchestra performance of Pli selon pli in which he compared the music to Brownian motion. One may find it hard to accept this view, usually because one confuses Boulez's writings about his music (almost always terrible, unhelpful, and pretentious) with the music itself. I, on the other hand, see him in the long line of French composers besotted with color and the "sensuous form" – the passion for proportion and beauty of line. Then again, my image of Boulez differs from that of many others, who picture him as a super-brain, to the exclusion of everything else. I admit I don't like everything he's done – the piano sonatas, for example, have for me all the charm of a concrete sofa – but such pieces are few.
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Summary for the Busy Executive: Super-solo.įor many years now, Boulez has been writing some of the most beautiful and most beautifully-made music around.