Boulez at 100: Re-imagined
Caoutchouc and Plus-Minus Ensemble perform specially commissioned music live from the 蜜芽传媒's Maida Vale studios, including works by Boulez, Alex Hills and Natacha Diels.
Kate Molleson and Tom Service present a live, Boulez-themed edition of the show from the 蜜芽传媒鈥檚 Maida Vale studios in London. Performing specially commissioned music tonight in front of a studio audience are Caoutchouc and Plus-Minus Ensemble. Caoutchouc is a duo comprising Jessie Marino and Serge Vuille, an uncategorisable mix of percussion, fiddle, spoken word and electronics, and tonight they explore texts by and about Pierre Boulez. Plus-Minus Ensemble perform two pieces by Boulez, his Derive I for six instruments, and the lesser known, rarely performed Structures I for two pianos. Plus-Minus also bring two brand new pieces, both 鈥渞e-imaginings鈥� of older works: Alex Hills鈥檚 response to Ruth Crawford Seeger鈥檚 String Quartet, and Natacha Diels鈥檚 take on Mexican composer Juli谩n Carrillo鈥檚 Preludio a Col贸n. Both works are co-commissioned by 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3 and Plus-Minus Ensemble. Also tonight, Nothing Ever Truly Ends, a new work by British composer Charlotte Bray, commissioned and performed by Ensemble intercontemporain at the Paris Philharmonie earlier this year; plus the first of this weekend鈥檚 postcards from Paris: the 98 year old Betsy Jolas tells Kate about her first ever meeting with Boulez.
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Caoutchouc
Cars; Serialism for Dummies
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Pierre Boulez
Derive I
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Alex Hills
Andante no longer for strings
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Caoutchouc
Epic Correspondence
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Pierre Boulez
Structures I
Performer: Roderick Chadwick. Performer: Mark Knoop. -
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Natacha Diels
Adrift
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Caoutchouc
Ondes Martenot; Saucisson
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Charlotte Bray
Nothing Ever Truly Ends
Ensemble: Ensemble intercontemporain. Conductor: Pierre Bleuse. -
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脡liane Radigue
OCCAM IX
Performer: Laetitia Sonami.- Black Truffle.
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- Sat 29 Mar 2025 22:30蜜芽传媒 Radio 3
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