Dérive – Bon anniversaire Pierre Boulez!

‘Music is a labyrinth without beginning and without end, full of new paths to be discovered, where the mystery remains eternal.’

This concert is dedicated to the composer and sound thinker Pierre Boulez, who would have celebrated his hundredth birthday this year. And it is dedicated to a cultural technique that symbolises Pierre Boulez’s fascinating way of thinking in sound: Dérive! This technique, defined by the writer Guy Debord, describes a way of wandering around a place in order to discover it. In the two works Dérive I and Dérive II, Boulez explored the many possible derivations of a hexachord by Paul Sacher.
The six notes of this chord haunted Boulez for many years.

Bon anniversaire, Pierre Boulez!

Pierre Boulez
Dérive I (1984)
Dérive II (1988 / 2006 / 2009)

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Vladimir Jurowski, Dirigent

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