Pierre Boulez (26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) Pierre Boulez was a French composer, conductor, writer and pianist. He was also the founder and director of the Paris based Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM). In his early career, Boulez played a key role in the development of integral serialism, controlled chance and electronic music. This, coupled with his highly polemical views on the evolution of music, gained him the reputation as an enfant terrible. As a conductor, Boulez was known mainly for his performances of Béla Bartók, Alban Berg, Anton Bruckner, Claude Debussy, Gustav Mahler, Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, Edgard Varèse, Richard Wagner and Anton Webern. He received a total of 26 Grammy Awards during his career. ****************************************
GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No. 2 Tatiana Troyanos, mezzo Felicity Palmer, soprano London Philharmonic Choir BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra 27.08.1974 (live) Symphony No. 5 BBC Symphony Orchestra 1968 (live) Symphony No. 8 Betty Allen, mezzo Jan De Gaetani, mezzo Edda Moser, soprano Felicity Palmer, soprano Werner Hollweg, tenor Siegmund Nimsgern, baritone Raymond Michalski, baritone Westminster Choir Newark Boys Choir Boys Choir of St. Paul's Episcopal School Boys Choir of the Little Church Around the Corner and Trinity School New York Philharmonic Orchestra 14.02.1974 (live) Symphony No. 9 New York Philharmonic Orchestra 27.06.1975 (live) PIERRE BOULEZ
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