The Sonata per sei for two pianos, three percussionists and a sampler keyboard player (2006) also references Bartók, playing a kind of boisterous aesthetic football with the Sonata for two pianos and ...

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted. The orchestral forces for this piece, light on strings and heavy on brass and percussion, are divided into eight groups, each with its own percussionist, otherwise ranging ...

Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war ...

This winter, Carnegie Hall will present three concerts paying tribute to the late visionary conductor and composer Pierre Boulez (1925–2016) in his centenary year. Ensemble Connect continues the ...

The firebrand composer and conductor Pierre Boulez once wrote that it is essential that a creative artist “hides his first attempts and destroys his traces.” By withdrawing from circulation several ...

Combining Hungarian, German, and French repertoire, mezzo­-soprano Corinna Scheurle presents an intriguing song recital that explores a range of musical connections. Works by Béla Bartók are heard ...

“A Kind of Ache” composer Sarah Hennies. Amadeus Julian Regucera is a new member of the curatorial team at EMPAC and it’s easy to guess -— given his first name — the artistic discipline he works in.

It may just be a wooden box with four strings, but what a world of sounds the violin can create! This cleverly arranged CD is bookended with Boulez’s Anthèmes I and II, showing the possibilities of ...

In his first United States appearance, Moritz Ernst – one of the leading pianists of his generation – will present a series of three concert-lectures this month in Gasson 100 as an artist-in-residence ...

Michael Barenboim’s disc consists solely of pieces by composers whose names begin with B, but it’s effectively an A-Z of solo violin technique, as well as a demonstration of his winning versatility.

On Sunday, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, having recently offered concerts pairing the music of Bela Bartók with that of Robert Schumann, kicks off another series of blind dates: pianist Paavali ...