Vivid. Fresh. Pioneering.
LSO Futures: Homage to Pierre Boulez
François-Xavier Roth
Barbican
Claude Debussy
Gigues from ‘Trois images pour orchestre’(7 mins)
Olga Neuwirth
Hommage à Pierre Boulez IX: Tombeau II (world premiere, LSO co-commission) (6 mins)
Claude Debussy
Ibéria from ‘Trois images pour orchestre’ (20 mins)
Rafael Marino Arcaro
invention in language of child (LSO Panufnik commission, world premiere) (10 mins)
Interval
Lara Agar
suntime bedtime moontime (LSO Panufnik commission, world premiere) (8 mins)
Claude Debussy
Rondes de printemps from ‘Trois images pour orchestre’ (9 mins)
Pierre Boulez
Notations – Nos 1, 2, 3, 4 & 7 (12 mins)
François-Xavier Roth conductor
London Symphony Orchestra
The concert will finish at approximately 8.50pm, including a 20-minute interval (timings subject to change).
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The Concert
Celebrating Pierre Boulez and his influences, in the composer’s centenary year: his beloved Debussy, alongside three intriguing world premieres.
The Music
Boulez adored Debussy’s precise sound worlds as well as his revolutionary musical language. Gigues and Ibéria from Trois images are stunning orchestral portraits of England and Spain.
Boulez’s own Notations started life as piano pieces. He brought them to orchestral life over several years, turning them into vivid explosions of instrumental sound.
And new works from Neuwirth, Arcaro and Agar are inspired by Boulez’s colours, pioneering spirit and boundless imagination.
The Performers
The LSO celebrates Boulez and Debussy along with three brand new commissions led by the great Boulez champion, François-Xavier Roth.
The LSO was one of the most important orchestras in Boulez’s life, and he deeply loved working with them. The programme that we have imagined for this occasion is a tribute to his music, Notations; to one of his heroes, Debussy; and to the future, with new works by Neuwirth, Arcaro and Agar.
François-Xavier Roth
The LSO Panufnik Composers Scheme is generously supported by Lady Hamlyn and The Helen Hamlyn Trust
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