Pierre Boulez

CD 1 PIERRE BOULEZ 1 Sonatine for Flute and Piano, Op. 1 (1946; revised 1949) Severino Gazzelloni: flute; David Tudor: piano Piano Sonata No. 2 (1948) Yvonne Loriod: piano 2 Extrêmement rapide (extremely fast) 3 Lent (slow) 4 Modéré, presque vif (moderate, almost lively) 5 Vif (lively) Polyphonie X for Ensemble (1950–51); withdrawn. 6 Modéré 7 Lent 8 Vif Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hans Rosbaud Polyphonie X for Ensemble (1950–51); withdrawn. 9 Polyphonie X (Part 1) Symphony Orchestra of the RAI (Radiotelevisione italiana) Conductor: Bruno Maderna Deux études de musique concréte For Magnetic Tape (1951-2) 10 Étude 1 Sur un son 11 Étude 2 Sur un accord de sept sons

CD 2 PIERRE BOULEZ Le Soleil des eaux (The Sun and the Waters) for Soprano, Chorus and Orchestra (1948; revised 1950; revised 1958; revised 1965); text: two poems by René Char 1 Complainte du lézard amoureux 2 La Sorgue (Chanson pour Yvonne) Irène Joachim: soprano; Joseph Peyron: tenor; Pierre Mollet: baritone. RTF National Orchestra Conductor: Roger Désormière Structures Book 1 for Two Pianos (1951–52) 3 Premier mouvement 4 Deuxième mouvement 5 Troisième mouvement Aloys Kontarsky, Alfons Kontarsky: pianos Le Marteau sans maître for Alto Voice and Six Instruments (1953–55; revised 1957) 6 Avant "l'Artisanat furieux" 7 Commentaire I de "Bourreaux de solitude" 8 "L'Artisanat furieux" 9 Commentaire II de "Bourreaux de solitude” 10 "Bel édifice et les pressentiments", double 11 "Bourreaux de solitude" 12 Après "L'Artisanat furieux" 13 Commentaire III de "Bourreaux de solitude" 14 Bel édifice et les pressentiments - Double Marie-Thérèse Cahn: contralto. Solistes du Domaine Musical. Conductor: Pierre Boulez 15 La Symphonie mécanique musique concrète, for a film by Jean Mitry (1955) 16 Poésie pour pouvoir (Poems for Power), for Orchestra and Tape, (from the Poem by Henri Michaux) (1955/58); withdrawn Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductors: Hans Rosbaud, Pierre Boulez. Michel Bouquet: voice

CD 3 PIERRE BOULEZ Pli selon pli (Fold by Fold), for Soprano and Orchestra (1957–58, as Improvisations sur Mallarmé I and II; completed 1959–62; revised 1983; revised 1989) 1 Pli selon pli: No. 2, Improvisation I sur Mallarmé 2 Pli selon pli: No. 3, Improvisation II sur Mallarmé Eva Maria Rogner: soprano; Maria Bergmann: piano. Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Roma. Conductor: Pierre Boulez 3 Tombeau à la mémoire du Prince Max Egon zu Fürstenberg (1959) Eva-Maria Rogner: soprano. Ensemble Domaine Musical Paris. Conductor: Pierre Boulez Structures Book II for Two Pianos (1961) 4 Chapitre I 5 Chapitre II / Version 1 6 Chapitre II / Version 2 Yvonne Loriod, Piere Boulez: pianos KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN 7 Kontra-Punkte for Ten Instruments, Op. 1 (1952-1953) Solistes du Domaine musical. Conductor: Pierre Boulez ANTON WEBERN Symphony, Op.21 (1928) 8 Ruhig schreitend 9 Variationen Orchestre du Domaine musical. Conductor: Pierre Boulez

CD 4 IGOR STRAVINSKY 1 Concertino for Twelve Instruments (arrangement of the original work for a string quartet (1920), made by Igor Stravinsky in 1952) Conductor: Pierre Boulez 2 Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920, version 1947) Orchestre du Domaine musical. Conductor: Pierre Boulez

EDGARD VARÈSE 3 Intégrales for Orchestra and Percussion (1923-1925) Orchestre du Domaine musical. Conductor: Pierre Boulez

LUCIANO BERIO 4 Serenata 1 for Flute and Fourteen Instruments (1957) Severino Gazzeloni: flute. Conductor: Pierre Boulez

LUIGI NONO 5 Incontri, for Twenty-Four Instruments Orchestre Du Domaine Musical. Conductor: Pierre Boulez

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN 6 Zeitmasse (Time Measures), for Five Woodwinds Op.5 (1956) Conductor: Pierre Boulez

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Septet (Suite) in E flat major, Op. 29 (1926) 7 Ouverture. Allegretto. Sehr flott 8 Tanzschritte 9 Thema mit Variationen 10 Gigue Conductor: Pierre Boulez