(Le) Domain Musical 1956 - 1967, Vol 1
Two important sets are reminders of heady, if fraught, pioneering years
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Composer or Director: Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Igor Stravinsky, Alban Berg
Label: Accord
Magazine Review Date: 9/2006
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Stereo
Catalogue Number: 476 8862
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Concertino |
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
Domaine Musicale Orchestra Igor Stravinsky, Composer Pierre Boulez, Conductor |
(3) Pieces for solo clarinet |
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
Guy Deplus, Clarinet Igor Stravinsky, Composer |
(3) Pieces |
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
Igor Stravinsky, Composer Parrenin Quartet |
Symphonies of Wind Instruments |
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
Domaine Musicale Orchestra Igor Stravinsky, Composer Pierre Boulez, Conductor |
Renard |
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
Domaine Musicale Orchestra Elemer Kiss, Cimbalom Igor Stravinsky, Composer Jean Giraudeau, Tenor Louis Devos, Tenor Louis-Jacques Rondeleux, Bass Pierre Boulez, Conductor Xavier Depraz, Bass |
Agon |
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
Hans Rosbaud, Conductor Igor Stravinsky, Composer South West German Radio Orchestra |
Verklärte Nacht |
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer Denes Marton, Viola Jaques Parrenin, Violin Marcel Charpentier, Violin Michel Tournus, Cello Pierre Penassou, Cello Serge Collot, Viola |
(6) Pieces |
Anton Webern, Composer
Anton Webern, Composer Hans Rosbaud, Conductor South West German Radio Orchestra |
Pierrot lunaire |
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer Guy Deplus, Clarinet Helga Pilarczyk, Soprano Jacques Castagner, Flute Jean Huchot, Cello Louis Montaigne, Bass clarinet Luben Yordanoff, Violin Maria Bergmann, Piano Serge Collot, Viola |
Sonata for Piano |
Alban Berg, Composer
Alban Berg, Composer Yvonne Loriod, Piano |
(3) Orchestral Pieces |
Alban Berg, Composer
Alban Berg, Composer Hans Rosbaud, Conductor South West German Radio Orchestra |
Chamber Symphony No. 1 |
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer Domaine Musicale Orchestra Pierre Boulez, Conductor |
(2) Lieder |
Anton Webern, Composer
Anton Webern, Composer Domaine Musicale Orchestra Pierre Boulez, Conductor |
(4) Lieder |
Anton Webern, Composer
Anton Webern, Composer Domaine Musicale Orchestra Jeanne Héricard, Speaker Pierre Boulez, Conductor |
Cantata No. 1 |
Anton Webern, Composer
(Elisabeth) Brasseur Chorale Anton Webern, Composer Domaine Musicale Orchestra Ilona Steingruber, Soprano Pierre Boulez, Conductor |
Cantata No. 2 |
Anton Webern, Composer
(Elisabeth) Brasseur Chorale Anton Webern, Composer Domaine Musicale Orchestra Ilona Steingruber, Soprano Pierre Boulez, Conductor Xavier Depraz, Bass |
Serenade |
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer Guy Deplus, Clarinet Jean Huchot, Cello Louis Montaigne, Bass clarinet Louis-Jacques Rondeleux, Bass Luben Yordanoff, Violin Paul Grund, Mandolin Paul Stingl, Guitar Serge Collot, Viola |
Suite |
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer Guy Deplus, Clarinet Jacques Ghestem, Violin Jean Huchot, Cello Louis Montaigne, Bass clarinet Marcel Naulais, Clarinet Pierre Boulez, Conductor Serge Collot, Viola Yvonne Loriod, Piano |
Variations |
Anton Webern, Composer
Anton Webern, Composer Yvonne Loriod, Piano |
Symphony |
Anton Webern, Composer
Anton Webern, Composer Domaine Musicale Orchestra Pierre Boulez, Conductor |
Composer or Director: Edgard Varèse, Pierre Boulez, Henri Pousseur, Luciano Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Olivier Messiaen, Luigi Nono, Hans Werner Henze, Claude Debussy, Mauricio Kagel
Label: Accord
Magazine Review Date: 9/2006
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Stereo
Catalogue Number: 4769209
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Kontra-Punkte |
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer
Domaine Musicale Orchestra Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer Pierre Boulez, Conductor |
Serenata I |
Luciano Berio, Composer
Domaine Musicale Orchestra Luciano Berio, Composer Pierre Boulez, Conductor Severino Gazzelloni, Flute |
(Le) Marteau sans maître |
Pierre Boulez, Composer
Anton Stingl, Guitar Claude Ricou, Vibraphone Georges von Gucht, Percussion Jean Batigne, Percussion Jeanne Deroubaix, Mezzo soprano Pierre Boulez, Composer Pierre Boulez, Conductor Serge Collot, Viola Severino Gazzelloni, Flute |
Oiseaux exotiques |
Olivier Messiaen, Composer
Domaine Musicale Orchestra Olivier Messiaen, Composer Rudolf Albert, Conductor Yvonne Loriod, Piano |
Syrinx |
Claude Debussy, Composer
Claude Debussy, Composer Severino Gazzelloni, Flute |
Densité 21.5 |
Edgard Varèse, Composer
Edgard Varèse, Composer Severino Gazzelloni, Flute |
Hyperprism |
Edgard Varèse, Composer
Domaine Musicale Orchestra Edgard Varèse, Composer Pierre Boulez, Conductor |
Octandre |
Edgard Varèse, Composer
André Fournier, Horn André Fournier, Horn André Rabot, Bassoon André Rabot, Bassoon Claude Maissoneuve, Oboe Edgard Varèse, Composer Guy Deplus, Clarinet Jacques Castagner, Flute Jacques Cazauran, Double bass Marcel Naulais, Clarinet Pierre Boulez, Conductor René Allain, Trombone Roger Delmotte, Trumpet |
Cantéyodjayâ |
Olivier Messiaen, Composer
Olivier Messiaen, Composer Yvonne Loriod, Piano |
(7) Haïkaï |
Olivier Messiaen, Composer
Olivier Messiaen, Composer Percussion de Strasbourg Pierre Boulez, Conductor Yvonne Loriod, Piano |
Structures, Book 1 |
Pierre Boulez, Composer
Alfons Kontarsky, Piano Aloys Kontarsky, Piano Pierre Boulez, Composer |
Sonatine |
Pierre Boulez, Composer
David Tudor, Piano Pierre Boulez, Composer Severino Gazzelloni, Flute |
Sonata for Piano No. 2 |
Pierre Boulez, Composer
Pierre Boulez, Composer Yvonne Loriod, Piano |
String Sextet |
Mauricio Kagel, Composer
Domaine Musicale Orchestra Mauricio Kagel, Composer Pierre Boulez, Conductor |
Incontri |
Luigi Nono, Composer
Domaine Musicale Orchestra Luigi Nono, Composer Pierre Boulez, Conductor |
Concerto per il Marigny |
Hans Werner Henze, Composer
Domaine Musicale Orchestra Hans Werner Henze, Composer Rudolf Albert, Conductor Yvonne Loriod, Piano |
Madrigal III |
Henri Pousseur, Composer
Diego Masson, Percussion Fabienne Boury-Fournier, Piano Gérard Jarry, Violin Guy Deplus, Clarinet Henri Pousseur, Composer Jean-Charles François, Percussion Michel Tournus, Cello |
Mobile |
Henri Pousseur, Composer
Alfons Kontarsky, Piano Aloys Kontarsky, Piano Henri Pousseur, Composer |
Zeitmasze |
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer
André Rabot, Bassoon Claude Maissoneuve, Oboe Guy Deplus, Clarinet Jacques Castagner, Flute Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer Paul Taillefer, Cor anglais |
(14) Klavierstücke, Movement: VI (1954-55) |
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer
David Tudor, Piano Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer |
Intégrales |
Edgard Varèse, Composer
Domaine Musicale Orchestra Edgard Varèse, Composer Pierre Boulez, Conductor |
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Then in the throes of his love-hate relationship with Schoenberg, Pierre Boulez directs pugnacious accounts of the Serenade and Suite and a high-pressure First Chamber Symphony. An intense Verklärte Nacht is still among the finest, and if Pierrot lunaire can yield more expressive light and shade, the recitation of Helga Pilarczyk has lost little in immediacy. Webern was of especial importance to Boulez at this time: performances of the Symphony and Cantatas have an eloquent poise, while Yvonne Loriod maps out emotional tension in the Variations with an unerring rightness and largely eschews rhetoric in Berg’s Sonata. Stravinsky was hardly in need of such promotion – but Boulez evinces affection for the Concertino and Symphonies of Wind Instruments, and a Renard whose theatricality is unsurprising given his years spent with the Renaud-Barrault company.
The other set focuses on Boulez and his contemporaries, along with Messiaen – the tentative premiere of Oiseaux exotiques and a first outing for the iridescent Sept Haïkaï – and Varèse, an explosive Hyperprism and a seething Intégrales. The intricacies of Stockhausen’s Kontrapunkte now seem contrived but the pungent timbral interplay of Zeitmasze still compels – as does David Tudor in the convolutions of Klavierstück VI. Characterful works by Pousseur illumine a now-neglected figure, while those by Berio, Kagel and Nono are among the best of their era. Boulez is represented by grimly determined accounts of the Flute Sonatina and Structures I and by Loriod’s formidable Second Sonata – galvanising its violent contrasts with a sweeping intensity. Boulez’s second recording of Le marteau sans maître (in the main set) remains his most cohesive but his first account (on the bonus disc) is of inestimable value in enabling this seminal work to take shape, albeit falteringly, before one’s ears.
Remastering has, for the most part, been sensitively carried out (with no disguising the often primitive sound quality), and Claude Samuel’s booklet-notes are as penetrating as expected from ‘one who was there’. The bonus disc with Volume 1 also features Samuel in an extended interview with Boulez – on typically combative form as he plays down past successes while acknowledging the significance of what was achieved in those heady if fraught years.
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