Sad news indeed. I first became aware of his work through the Stravinsky/Schoenberg LP he made around 1962. At that time he gave a lively interview to Records and Recording in which he averred that "Britten is the Saint-Saens of today's music", illustrating his argument at the piano. He gave two talks to the Southampton Uni Music Dept in 1972: one on late Beethoven and one on the unfinished third sonata of Boulez. This was the first time that Boulez's work sounded like music to me. I subsequently collected his late Beethoven recordings and still admire them very much, severe in style though they are. I think I have all his books (imagine writing all those as a hobby, which is what he said he did!) and often refer to them.
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