Pierre Boulez: A Radical Musical Polymath | A Short Portrait - Episode 1

Pierre Boulez went from being a controversial avant-garde and experimental composer to becoming a significant icon of composition, conducting, and pedagogy. The first episode opens with Boulez's confession about his preferences as a conductor and composer as well as his musical approach, followed by a brief introduction by the narrator Jon Tolansky to Pierre Boulez and the video podcast "A Short Portrait”.

Watch all episodes from "Pierre Boulez: A Short Portrait" here: https://dg.lnk.to/boulez-portrait

Find out more about the albums and recordings featured in this episode:
Pierre Boulez: Claude Debussy - La Mer, Nocturnes https://dgt.link/debussy-lamer-nocturnes
Pierre Boulez: Richard Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen https://dgt.link/boulez-ring-wagner
Pierre Boulez: The Conductor - Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon & Philips https://dgt.link/boulez-complete-reco...

About "Pierre Boulez: A Short Portrait":
On this day (5 January), 7 years ago, we lost a Renaissance figure in the history of classical music. To commemorate Pierre Boulez and his panoramically wide influence, DG presents "Pierre Boulez: A Short Portrait" - a video-podcast series with five stunningly visualised episodes that revive the legacy of Pierre Boulez, introducing not only his musical ideology and inspiration as spoken by Boulez himself, but also feature rare TV footage from the 90s, as well as exclusive interviews with Boulez. The voice-over is produced and narrated by Jon Tolansky and accompanied by commentaries by fellow musician Andrew Marriner (LSO’s former principal clarinetist).

About Jon Tolansky:
Formerly a musician at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Jon Tolansky specialises in making documentary features on composers and performers for international radio organisations and recording companies. Prominent among these institutions are the BBC, WQXR New York, the Chicago-based WFMT Radio Network, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio International, EMI Classics, the Decca Music Group, and VAI Records. As an independent producer he has pioneered the first sets of CD series featuring documentary profiles, in which he has personally recorded artists such as Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Mirella Freni, Angela Gheorghiu, Carlo Maria Giulini, Marilyn Horne, Yevgeni Kissin, Luciano Pavarotti, Ruggero Raimondi, Mstislav Rostropovich, Giuseppe di Stefano, Dame Joan Sutherland and Jon Vickers discussing their lives, careers and musical repertoire.

Find out more video-podcasts presented by Jon Tolansky and Deutsche Grammophon:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau discusses opera roles https://dg.lnk.to/fischer-dieskau-opera
Mesmerised by Carlos Kleiber https://dg.lnk.to/carlos-kleiber-mesm...
Claudio Abbado: A Memoir https://dg.lnk.to/abbado-memoir

Production Team
Audio Production & Narration: Jon Tolansky
Video Production: Jue Xi Hong
Supervisor: Johannes Gleim
Transcription: Jue Xi Hong, Jon Tolansky
Subtitles: Jue Xi Hong (English), Olivia Artner (Deutsch)

Special thanks to:
Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien
Andrew Marriner
Alan Newcombe
Nicole Albring

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