BBC SO Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez - The Second Piano Sonata
- 3pm
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- Category:
- Classical Music | Milton Court
- Event type:
- Booking required | In-person
- Admission:
- £15
- Location:
- Milton Court Concert Hall
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Boulez’s shattering Second Piano Sonata, and two extraordinary works for solo clarinet, performed by talented Guildhall School musicians and introduced by BBC Radio 3’s Kate Molleson.
Pierre Boulez made art without compromise. 'History as it is made by great composers is not a history of conservation, but of destruction - even while cherishing what is destroyed', he wrote, and in his explosive Second Piano Sonata of 1947-8 he set out to blast a path forward through the ruins of the western tradition. Few experiences in 20th century piano music are more visceral – or more bracing. And we’ll hear Boulez explore the clarinet and the amazing things it can do in Domaines (1961) and Dialogue de l’ombre double for clarinet and tape (1985) – written 24 years later.
Don’t be misled: this is music that’s small only in the physical sense; a thrilling reminder that as well as being a radical chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Boulez was a creator who split the musical atom - and revelled in the energy it released.
Part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Total Immersion series
Programme & Performers
Pierre Boulez
Domaines for solo clarinet
Piano Sonata No 2
Dialogue de l’ombre double for clarinet and tape
Venue information
Milton Court, based across the road from our Silk Street building, provides the School with world-class performance and training spaces, including a state of the art concert hall, a lyric theatre, a studio theatre and several major rehearsal rooms.
- Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London, EC2Y 9BH
