Pierre Boulez & Robert Chen

August 21, 2022, 8:00 pm

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Pierre Boulez smiles in a dark suit
Pierre Boulez (Photo: Todd Rosenberg)

Pierre Boulez served as the CSO’s third principal guest conductor and first conductor emeritus for over two decades, from 1995 until 2016. On this program, he leads Ligeti’s Violin Concerto featuring concertmaster Robert Chen, along with Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite and Valses nobles et sentimentales, plus Debussy’s Symphonic Fragments from The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian and La mer.

Playlist

Debussy: Symphonic Fragments from The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian

Ravel: Mother Goose Suite

Ligeti: Violin Concerto
Robert Chen, violin

Debussy: La mer

Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales