Prom 17
T679776018
Part of the BBC Proms.
Archive :: production:T679776018, concert:S344, venue:V221
Beethoven & Boulez
After Beethoven's Quintet for piano and winds, written soon after his arrival in Vienna, Pierre Boulez himself directs his breakthrough piece, Le marteau sans ma?tre (?The Hammer without a Master'), arguably the single most influential composition of the 1950s. By interlocking settings of three poems by the Surrealist poet Rene Char with commentaries from specific sub-groups of its ensemble, Boulez established a new kind of rapport between text and music through unsuspected continuities of timbre - a labyrinth of exotic sound at once tightly organised and delirious. There will be no interval. Finish time approx. 23:30
