The CSO celebrates Pierre Boulez’s 100th birthday! In this broadcast, we hear Pierre Boulez, the CSO’s Helen Regenstein Conductor Emeritus, conducting the CSO in Stravinsky, Scriabin, Varèse, Schoenberg and Bartók. In between, the CSO’s Ninth Music Director Daniel Barenboim conducts Boulez’ Notations VII.
Pierre Boulez at 100
Conductor Pierre Boulez
© Todd Rosenberg Photography 2006
Playlist
Igor Stravinsky: Fireworks, Op. 4
Pierre Boulez, conductor
1992 (Deutsche Grammophon)
Alexander Scriabin: Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op. 60
Pierre Boulez, conductor; Duain Wolfe director, Chicago Symphony Chorus; Anatol Ugorski piano
1996 (Deutsche Grammophon)
Edgard Varèse: Ionisation
Pierre Boulez, conductor
1995 (Deutsche Grammophon)
Arnold Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31
Pierre Boulez, conductor
1991 (Erato)
Béla Bartók: Rhapsody for Violin No. 2
Pierre Boulez, conductor; Gil Shaham violin
1998 (Deutsche Grammophon)
Pierre Boulez: Notations VII
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
2000 (Teldec)
Igor Stravinsky: Pulcinella
Pierre Boulez, conductor; Roxana Constantinescu, mezzo-soprano; Nicholas Phan, tenor; Kyle Ketelsen, bass-baritone
2009 (CSO Resound)
