Boulez Anniversary

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With Ensemble intercontemporain

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Répons opens the Pierre Boulez (1925-2025) anniversary year with powerful musical synthesis and theatrical dramaturgy, an iconic fusion of electronic and instrumental music, a dialogue between human and machine, a tour de force of persuasive rhetoric that unfolds like a spiral in the concert space. Like the responsorial masterpieces of Gabrieli and Monteverdi, Répons creates a dialogue between the instrumental ensemble at the heart of the space and the six soloists placed around the periphery. Wielding live electronics with mastery and ingenuity, Boulez unites and entangles all the sonic protagonists in this Baroque whirlwind. Répons is a work deeply associated with the Ensemble Intercontemporain, some of whose former soloists return especially for this anniversary concert of their 1981 premiere. Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Ensemble intercontemporain Pierre Bleuse conductor Sophie Cherrier, Emmanuelle Ophèle flute Hidéki Nagano, Dimitri Vassilakis piano Gilles Durot, Samuel Favre percussions Valeria Kafelnikov harp Aurélien Gignoux cymbalum Augustin Muller IRCAM electronics Jérémie Henrot IRCAM sound diffusion Pierre Boulez Mémoriale (…Explosante-fixe… Originel) Pierre Boulez Messagesquisse Claude Debussy En blanc et noir Pierre Boulez Sonatine Charlotte Bray Nothing Ever Truly Ends - Premiere 2025 Commissioned by the Ensemble intercontemporain with the support of the Fondation Pierre Boulez Pierre Boulez Répons

Répons opens the Pierre Boulez (1925-2025) anniversary year with powerful musical synthesis and theatrical dramaturgy, an iconic fusion of electronic and instrumental music, a dialogue between human and machine, a tour de force of persuasive rhetoric that unfolds like a spiral in the concert space.

Like the responsorial masterpieces of Gabrieli and Monteverdi, Répons creates a dialogue between the instrumental ensemble at the heart of the space and the six soloists placed around the periphery. Wielding live electronics with mastery and ingenuity, Boulez unites and entangles all the sonic protagonists in this Baroque whirlwind. Répons is a work deeply associated with the Ensemble Intercontemporain, some of whose former soloists return especially for this anniversary concert of their 1981 premiere.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano
Jean-Guihen Queyras cello

Ensemble intercontemporain
Pierre Bleuse conductor
Sophie Cherrier, Emmanuelle Ophèle flute
Hidéki Nagano, Dimitri Vassilakis piano
Gilles Durot, Samuel Favre percussions
Valeria Kafelnikov harp
Aurélien Gignoux cymbalum

Augustin Muller IRCAM electronics
Jérémie Henrot IRCAM sound diffusion

Pierre Boulez Mémoriale (…Explosante-fixe… Originel)
Pierre Boulez Messagesquisse
Claude Debussy En blanc et noir
Pierre Boulez Sonatine
Charlotte Bray Nothing Ever Truly Ends - Premiere 2025
Commissioned by the Ensemble intercontemporain with the support of the Fondation Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez Répons

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En partenariat avec la Philharmonie de Paris. Dans le cadre du centenaire Boulez. Concert enregistré par France Musique, diffusé le mercredi 22 janvier 2025 à 20h.