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Live at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: Ensemble intercontemporain conducted by Pierre Bleuse in a concert of sonic theatre with live electronics in music by Pierre Boulez and Luciano Berio.

Presented by Tom Service, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Berio: Sequenza V
Boulez: Dialogue de l’ombre double
Berio: Recital I (for Cathy)

Sarah Aristidou, soprano
Jérôme Comte, clarinet
Lucas Ounissi, trombone
IRCAM, live electronics
Ensemble intercontemporain
Pierre Bleuse, conductor

This season we celebrate the careers of 20th-century game-changers Pierre Boulez and Luciano Berio, whose inventive, iconoclastic legacies continue to echo through the sounds, styles and techniques of today. The Ensemble intercontemporain – founded by Boulez in 1976 – and Pierre Bleuse celebrate the pair in a concert full of sonic theatre. Boulez’s tour de force for clarinet, the shadow-duet Dialogue de l’ombre double, meets Berio’s allusive, tragicomic music-drama Recital I, which remixes opera’s history via the composer’s own distinctive imagination. Tragicomedy also streaks through Berio’s Sequenza V, which prompts a solo trombonist to explore a plethora of unlikely playing (and vocal) techniques.