Violeta Urmana, mezzo-soprano; Michael Schade, tenor; Vienna Philharmonic; Pierre Boulez, conductor Deutsche Grammophon, $17.98 If Boulez's recorded Mahler symphony cycle, for all the transparency of ...

Tonight’s Proms concert featured a tantalising double bill featuring Pierre Boulez’s Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna (1974-5) and the rarely performed original version of Gustav Mahler’s epic student ...

Composer and conductor Pierre Boulez died Tuesday, age 90. It isn’t every day that one has a chance to work with a giant. Learning of the death Tuesday of Pierre Boulez brought back memories of the ...

Say the name Pierre Boulez fast enough and it sounds like "Pure Bliss." Which is perfect: an apt description of his performance Thursday with the Cleveland Orchestra. Back at Severance Hall for a ...

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Conductor Emeritus Pierre Boulez will replace Music Director Riccardo Muti as conductor for the THIRTEEN Great Performances broadcast on Wednesday, October 27 at 9 p.m. ET ...

Completed in 1880 when Mahler was just 20, "Das Klagende Lied" (Song of lamentation) is a cantata of often beautiful contrasts. Despite its early place in Mahler’s career, it’s still clearly his with ...

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano; Vienna Philharmonic, Women’s Chorus of the Vienna Singverein, Vienna Boys Choir, Pierre Boulez, conductor (DG) Pierre Boulez has only two more choral symphonies to ...

Though the Mahler symphonies have been a regular part of Pierre Boulez's repertory for at least 30 years, his performances of them have never achieved quite the same status as his exemplary accounts ...

Pierre Boulez recorded both these works during his years with CBS. His earlier version of Das Klagende Lied had a curious history: in 1970, he recorded the 1899 two-movement revision of the cantata, ...

FRANKFURT, Germany – Pierre Boulez, the former principal conductor of the New York Philharmonic who moved between conducting, composition and teaching over a long career that made him one of the ...

Reporting from Frankfurt, Germany — Pierre Boulez, the former principal conductor of the New York Philharmonic who moved between conducting, composition and teaching over a long career that made him ...