Hungarian conductor of modernist music who went on to compose operas with texts ranging from Three Sisters to Angels in America
February 2024
David Lumsdaine obituary
Australian composer long resident in Britain whose music uses complex means to produce a direct result
July 2020
House music
House music: Andrew Clements' watching and listening picks
This week, Andrew Clements gets his teeth into Barenboim’s festival of new music, looks back in wonder at Wunderlich, and looks forward to looking back to the Proms
March 2017
Hommage à Boulez CD review – fabulous and compelling bow to a modern master
January 2017
Music blog
Boulez in the jungle: avant-garde music's indigenous soul
Distracted from his composing and iconoclasm by the necessity of earning some money, a young Pierre Boulez found work with a Parisian theatre company. Three trips he made with them to South America changed him and his music forever
June 2016
Berlin Phil: Europa Concerts 1991-2015 DVD review – a set of special things to savour
A quarter century of broadcast Europa Concerts are brought together in this extensive DVD set that features some exceptional performances
May 2016
Pierre Boulez: Young Composer and Conductor CD review – hallmark clarity and precision
Boulez: Livre pour Quatuor 'Révisé' CD review – rapturous beauty from the Diotimas
February 2016
Ensemble Intercontemporain review – modernist masterpieces played with authority and sparkle
Composer Aurélio Edler-Copes made his presence felt with a new work that held its own alongside Debussy and Bartók
Pierre Boulez changed how we listen to the music of our time
Andrew Clements
The polemicist’s precision and lucidity illuminated contemporary music in a way that few other conductors have even approached. It is this that will be his legacy
Pierre Boulez, classical music's maverick, dies aged 90
The composer, conductor, writer and performer, who directed the New York Philharmonic, had been ill for some time
Tom Service on classical music
Pierre Boulez: 10 key works
Pierre Boulez obituary
Pierre Boulez, classical music's modern maverick: in pictures
August 2015
SWR Symphony Orchestra/Roth review – Boulez explodes seductively with life
The composer’s fascinating piece combining wired-up flutes, orchestra and electronic effects was teamed with Ligeti and Bartók under the meticulous instruction of François-Xavier Roth
April 2015
Ensemble Intercontemporain/Pintscher review – bold and brilliant Boulez
This final evening of music celebrating the composer’s 90th birthday was dazzling and dynamic
