The CSO celebrates Pierre Boulez! In this broadcast, we hear Boulez, the CSO’s longtime principal guest conductor and later Helen Regenstein Conductor Emeritus, conducting the CSO in Stravinsky, Scriabin, Varèse, Schoenberg and Bartók. In between, the CSO’s ninth music director Daniel Barenboim leads Boulez’s Notations VII.
A Tribute to Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez (Photo: Todd Rosenberg)
Playlist
All recordings feature Pierre Boulez as conductor except when noted.
Igor Stravinsky: Fireworks, Op. 4
(Deutsche Grammophon 1992)
Alexander Scriabin: Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op. 60
Anatol Ugorski, piano
Chicago Symphony Chorus; Duain Wolfe, director
(Deutsche Grammophon 1996)
Arnold Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31
(Erato 1991)
Béla Bartók: Rhapsody for Violin No. 2
Gil Shaham, violin
(Deutsche Grammophon 1998)
Pierre Boulez: Notations VII
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
(Teldec 2000)
Igor Stravinsky: Pulcinella
Roxana Constantinescu, mezzo-soprano; Nicholas Phan, tenor; Kyle Ketelsen, bass-baritone
(CSO Resound 2009)