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Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez - Pli selon pli

BBC SO Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez

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Pierre Boulez conducting, with blue circular swirls around him

An evening-long tribute to the limitless creative mind of Pierre Boulez, culminating in a rare performance of his five-movement epic masterpiece Pli selon Pli. 

The BBC Symphony Orchestra’s day-long deep-dive into the life and work of Pierre Boulez reaches a truly monumental climax. Across an evening that spans his whole creative career, pianist Tamara Stefanovich plays the brilliant Notations and Incises, and the BBC Singers join the BBC SO to perform the extraordinary, playful Cummings ist der Dichter.

And then Martyn Brabbins joins soprano Anna Dennis and an expanded BBC SO for a rare complete performance of Boulez’s single largest work, Pli selon Pli. Part Mallarmé song cycle, part self-portrait and part era-defining manifesto for the possibilities of musical modernism, every performance is a major occasion. Boulez himself recorded it with the BBC Symphony Orchestra – making it the perfect way for the orchestra to salute the 100th birthday of its most revolutionary chief conductor.

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This performance will finish at approximately 9.45pm, including a 20-minute interval

Promoted by BBC Symphony Orchestra

Programme

Pierre Boulez Deux Études, musique concrète for tape
12 Notations
Incises
Cummings ist der Dichter
Pli selon pli

Performers

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Tamara Stefanovich piano
Anna Dennis soprano
BBC Singers

Digital programme

Total Immersion Day

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