Edgard Varèse - Offrandes, Ionisation and Octandre (with Pierre Boulez) | Opus 20 Modern Masterworks

From the Alte Oper in Frankfurt am Main
An authoritative contextual introduction from musicologist Michael Nupin opens the musical door to the work of Edgard Varèse.
Anna Steiger - soprano
Ensemble InterContemporain
Junge Deutsche Philharmonie
Pierre Boulez - conductor
0:00 Introduction to the composer
09:50 Octandre
17:00 Offrandes
23:57 Ionisation
30:07 Amerique
Renown Maestro Pierre Boulez conducts the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie playing the remarkable "Amériques" and the Ensemble InterContemporain playing the diverse compositions of "Offrandes, Ionisation and Octandre".
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[@Jack-nu4un]

Thankfully I got to meet Varese's widow in NYC during the 80s.she was sharp as a tack and came to the Palladium for the tribute to Varese hosted by Frank Zappa.April of 81 to be more specific..

[@zhabik3000]

спасибо!

[@galeriaameb8153]

Ionisation..................... pieza importantisima en el amblto cultural.

[@ultradmann2367]

Captions, please?

[@muslit]

Boulez kills music.

[@lepoisson]

How so?

[@muslit]

@@lepoisson He conducts what's in the score and nothing more. He has no interpretive skills whatsoever, including the music which he is supposedly known for. As Mahler said, "Music only begins with the notes", and that's about as far as Boulez gets. His performances are dead on arrival.

[@lepoisson]

@@muslit Interesting, thank for elaborating. I would agree that he plays it very flat here, not allowing for the crucial violence (in Amériques especially) to shine through. Then again I have heard few conductors who can.

[@franckmousset4022]

A @muslit, on ne joue pas Varèse comme du Schubert ou du Mahler. C'est une musique entièrement nouvelle tant dans sa conception que dans sa réalisation. Si vous n'avez pas compris cela, vous ètes toujours libre de ne pas écouter et de passer votre chemin.

[@muslit]

@@franckmousset4022 Mais pour moi le résultat est toujours le même que la musique soit Boulez, Varèse, Schoenberg, Webern, Mahler, Schubert.... : mort à l'arrivée. Faire de la musique ne se limite pas à faire ce qui est sur la page. En tant que compositeur, Boulez est extrêmement limité, et sa direction d'orchestre encore plus.

[@poturbg8698]

Just the worst camera work ever--calls attention to itself, and we can't see the ensemble or Boulez most of the time.