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LSO Futures: Homage to Pierre Boulez ~ Barbican

  • Barbican Centre Silk St, Barbican London EC2Y 8DS United Kingdom (map)

Celebrating Pierre Boulez and his influences, in the composer’s centenary year

Celebrating Pierre Boulez and his influences, in the composer’s centenary year: his beloved Debussy, alongside three intriguing world premieres.

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.

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