FREE UK SHIPPING OVER £30!
Pierre Boulez: Young Composer and Conductor
Despatch Information
This despatch estimate is based on information from both our own stock and the UK supplier's stock.
If ordering multiple items, we will aim to send everything together so the longest despatch estimate will apply to the complete order.
If you would rather receive certain items more quickly, please place them on a separate order.
If any unexpected delays occur, we will keep you informed of progress via email and not allow other items on the order to be held up.
If you would prefer to receive everything together regardless of any delay, please let us know via email.
Pre-orders will be despatched as close as possible to the release date.
Label: Praga Digitals
Cat No: PRD250332
Barcode: 3149028083125
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 29th April 2016
There is nothing here that [Boulez] did not re-record later, though his own cantata Le Soleil des Eaux is performed in the 1958 version with three soloists, rather than the 1965 revision with just soprano and chorus that became definitive. And the soloist in Bartók’s First Violin Concerto from 1966 is Yehudi Menuhin, on supple, expressive form, which complements the recordings of the two violin Rhapsodies that Boulez and Menuhin made together a few years later. In general, the performances have the clarity and precision that became so typical of Boulez’s conducting, but without the expressive expansiveness that he went on to develop. 
