Wot? No comments on Boulez?

**Beef Oven!** · 22-03-15, 15:29

Originally posted by ardcarp View Post

Did anyone hear the Boulez programme on R3 last night?

Clashes with Match Of The Day.

**ferneyhoughgeliebte** · 22-03-15, 15:58

Which one? (Heard the mid-evening one - and how wonderful to hear new Music of this quality in this timeslot - saving the Hear & Now special for the i-Player.)

Terrific Music - great composer.

**Eine Alpensinfonie** · 22-03-15, 16:09

Ever since he insulted Tchaikovsky, I've ignored him.

**MrGongGong** · 22-03-15, 16:52

Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post

Ever since he insulted Tchaikovsky, I've ignored him.

I think he has been ignoring you as well

**Honoured Guest** · 22-03-15, 16:55

Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez at 90

Once considered the blazing sun of the classical music world, Pierre Boulez was celebrated on the occasion of a near-total eclipse.

**aka Calum Da Jazbo** · 22-03-15, 16:57

No Comment

**Eine Alpensinfonie** · 22-03-15, 17:02

Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post

I think he has been ignoring you as well

**Beef Oven!** · 22-03-15, 17:16

Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post

Ever since he insulted Tchaikovsky, I've ignored him.

I don't think so - Tchaikovsky was dead way before Boulez was even born.

**Serial_Apologist** · 22-03-15, 17:19

Saturday's Music Matters missed a golden educative opportunity to place Boulez and his contemporaries in context by, for one thing, explaining what serialism is all about, and whence it came, to the masses weaned into to R3 by Breakfast and Essential Classics. By omitting it merely preached to the converted and told me nothing new.

**ahinton** · 22-03-15, 17:20

I caught part of Notations but had to go out and missed Pli selon Pli. I was raised on, among other things, Boulez's works of the late 40s up to early 60s when I began to study music but, after dutifully trying to follow this kind of thing, I grew weary of it and unexcited by it and just lost interest; yes Le Marteau continued to hold a kind of spell but the piano sonatas just left me cold. I have become considerably more appreciative of some of his more recent work, including Répons and Dérive II, but I do agree that the earlier Pli selon Pli is an unique achievement and, although I've heard it rarely, it has never failed to impress, so I look forward to catching up with the performance broadcast yesterday on which no one has yet commented.

**Bryn** · 22-03-15, 17:50

Well, despite it having been edited by the iPlayer team since it was first posted, badly truncated, last night's Live in Concert is still cut short, but not as much as in its first appearance via the iPlayer Listen Again facility. The end is not available at the start of Between the Ears, either. However, the updated version of Hear and Now runs on beyond the end of the programme itself.

**Lento** · 22-03-15, 19:35

I'm not sure Boulez is the best candidate for a "total immersion" evening. I tend to get bored after 15 mins or so.

**Beef Oven!** · 22-03-15, 20:45

Originally posted by Lento View Post

I'm not sure Boulez is the best candidate for a "total immersion" evening. I tend to get bored after 15 mins or so.

We're all different.

**ferneyhoughgeliebte** · 22-03-15, 21:48

Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post

We're all different.