Boulez: Notations pour Orchestre- Lucerne Festival Academy

[@necroyoli08]

I just can't express enough gratitude to you for uploading this.

[@clarinetjo]

The same ! It is really wonderful !

[@Cleekschrey]

Yessss

[@clarinetjo]

The beginning of the first piece is one of the most beautiful thing i've ever heard !

[@BetonBrutContemporary]

No 7th

[@MrInterestingthings]

Of course every pianist in the room wants to see and hear No.6 .

[@musikdude5]

I. 1:06 VII. 3:56 IV. 10:06 III. 12:07 II. 16:36

[@mackjay2]

Thanks~!

[@sonicsnap1173]

I don't have the words! It's absolutely awesome!

[@23BET23]

II is so good. Orchestration and compactness of the form is so sharp.

[@sagardia8891]

Soooo beautiful!

[@jppitman1]

"I liked it, HEY MIKEY!!" I`m a texture/timbre kinduh guy and I really enjoyed this. (It`s why I get into Xenakis, too.) The colours are just incredible. I have tried numerous times to get into Elliott Carter and his orchestral pieces, but the pointilistic nature of them leaves my ears cold. I`ve enjoyed other Boulez works over the years, as well. Also, what a great orchestra!

[@mikesimpson3207]

I love Boulez's orchestration. All that muted brass and percussion! I don't know how he managed to do it, but Notation 7, which is honestly kind of obnoxious in the original piano piece, is one of the most beautiful things he ever wrote here.

[@BetonBrutContemporary]

The power of Perfect 5th, brother.

[@psijicassassin7166]

I play this music to make my hyperactive dog sleepy. Boulez arranges notes usefully.

[@UtsyoChakraborty]

@@BetonBrutContemporary Amen!

[@xavierlemblun8446]

Je decouvre la musique de Pierre Boulez etonnante musique, je suis attire comme un aimant, pouvoir de la musique quelque chose vient quelque chose semble se dessiner a l horizon du monde...

[@theingabo212]

II is my favourite one!

[@BetonBrutContemporary]

SO SPICY!

[@javiervivanco919]

Sonoridad inédita :puntillista:""atmósfera inaudita ,densa y clara a la vez

[@RyanMHare]

Brilliant! Thanks for sharing this.

[@MalabarTheGreat]

15:20 a consonant chord? Or at least something close to it.

[@RyanMHare]

Wonderful!

[@BetonBrutContemporary]

2:10 that C though

[@MrBohuslav]

September 10, 2009

[@Cleekschrey]

Heaven

[@Tizohip]

4:26

[@Tizohip]

insane pieces '-' this is the most 3:56

[@jean-francoisbrunet2031]

I must say I can't quite believe the people who express delight at listening to this. All the sophistication of the composition results in auditory randmoness (except for the obvious and rather trite rhythmic regularities of Number 4 and 2). When Boulez says that these pieces arrange themselves like a jigsaw puzzle, and that you can arrange them at will, he is contradicting himself. You cannot rearrange a jigsaw puzzle. In the case of Notations you can because it does not matter in which order they are played, because no structure is detectable in any of them, let alone between them. And the reason he gives to play #2 at the end is so vapid: because its loud and energetic. Oh Wow!

[@MalabarTheGreat]

Have you not heard of the concept of a grand finale? A showstopping end? A bombastic finish? Like the finale to Turangalila, for example? It might be vapid, but hey, it's music.

[@jean-francoisbrunet2031]

@@MalabarTheGreat Yes but if you do what everybody has done since the beginnning of the XIXth century at least, you don't pose as a revolutionary, you don't act like the pompous exegete of your own œuvre.

[@MalabarTheGreat]

@@jean-francoisbrunet2031 Great musicians are hardly ever humble. Its just part of the deal. Why does it bother you so much? Genuinely curious, no ill will.

[@jean-francoisbrunet2031]

@@MalabarTheGreat He was supremely intelligent, a first rate conductor, but utterly misguided in his creative pursuit. I think that no one will listen to Boulez in half a century. Actually it is already the case. And as a conductor he was smart enough to scatter very few of his own pieces in a very classical repertoire. He was widely considered as incredibely intolerant and arrogant in his youth (in Penser la Musique Aujourd'hui for example), he even confessed as much in his latter days. And finally, he has had too much power, in France at least.

[@TempodiPiano]

Elles ne sont pas plus longues qu'au piano ?

[@BetonBrutContemporary]

Yes, they are very short on the piano version, 10~12 bars(measures) per piece

[@Gwailo54]

@@BetonBrutContemporary- all the piano pieces are 12 bars long.

[@Empyreanabove]

The music of the Ivory Tower.

[@TempodiPiano]

What is the Ivory Tower? A movie?

[@Empyreanabove]

@Invité A strange assumption. News to me.

[@OK-pg6mv]

this makes the ears hurt. Horrible "music"

[@stephanecollin]

Quelle musique chiante. Je m'ennuie dès la 15ième seconde

[@martinetienne1446]

La médiocrité n’est pas une fatalité…😇

[@trob-o-matic8896]

I like piano version much better. This arrangement sounds cluttered and chaotic. It's a mess.

[@shosho_hrubblefongers9311]

Agreed

[@lotharlamurtra7924]

TROB-O-MATIC this is really not true.

[@diallobanksmusic]

I disagree completely. It can get a little jumbled at times, but as Boulez clearly states, they are just different pieces. It’s completely separate. Comparing the two is a mistake.

[@山川川山]

not so chaotic

[@FraudMonet]

That’s not always a bad thing when it comes to the arts