Pierre Boulez – The Complete Columbia Album Collection (FLAC)

Performer: Jessye Norman, Felicity Palmer, Helen Watts, Richard Cassilly, Walter Berry, Yvonne Minton, Siegmund Nimsgern, Tatiana Troyanos, Evelyn Lear, Elisabeth Söderström, Ernst Haefliger, Pinchas Zukerman, Daniel Barenboim, Isaac Stern, John Williams, Camerata Singers, BBC Singers, Ensemble Intercontemporain
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de l’Opera National de Paris, Cleveland Orchestra
Conductor: Pierre Boulez
Number of Discs: 67
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Sony
Catalogue: 0888430133327
Release: 2014
Size: 14.6 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover

CD 01
Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7 From the drama by George Buchner (Beginning)

CD 02
Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7 From the drama by George Buchner (Conclusion)

CD 03
Messiaen: Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum
Messiaen: Couleurs de la Cité Céleste

CD 04
Debussy: La Mer
Debussy: Prélude a l’après-midi d’un faune
Debussy: Jeux

CD 05
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, op. 14

CD 06
Berlioz: Lelio, ou Le Retour a la vie, Op. 14b

CD 07
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (Sz 106)
Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite (1910)

CD 08
Berg: Chamber Concerto for Violin, Piano & 13 Wind Instruments
Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6
Berg: Altenberg Lieder, Op. 4

CD 09
Debussy: Images pour Orchestra
Debussy: Danses

CD 10
Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps (1947 version)

CD 11
Mahler: Das klagende Lied

CD 12
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
Beethoven: Cantata – “Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage”, Op. 112
Mahler: Symphony No. 10 – Adagio

CD 13-15
Debussy: Pelléas Et Mélisande Drame lyrique en 5 actes (Album Version)

CD 16
Boulez: Pli Selon Pli (“fold according to fold”)

CD 17
Debussy: Nocturnes
Debussy: Printemps
Debussy: Première Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Orchestra

CD 18
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Ravel: Pavane Pour une Infante Défunte
Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole
Ravel: Alborada del Gracioso

CD 19
Stravinsky: Pétrouchka: Scenes burlesques en quatre tableaux (1911 version)

CD 20
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19
Bartók: Dance Suite (Sz 77)
Ravel: Concerto in G Major for Piano and Orchestra

CD 21
Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major

CD 22
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (Excerpt)
Berlioz: Les Troyens (Excerpt)
Berlioz: Beatrice et Benedict (Excerpts)
Berlioz: Le Carnaval Romain, Op. 9 – Overture caractéristique – Concert Overture

CD 23
Berg: Seven Early Songs
Berg: Wozzeck. Act III

CD 24
Ravel: Une Barque sur L’Océan
Ravel: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

CD 25
Boulez: le marteau sans maître
Boulez: Livre pour Cordes

CD 26
Wagner: Prelude to Act I from The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
Wagner: Tannhäuser and the Song Contest on the Wartburg Overture
Wagner: Faust Overture
Wagner: Prelude to Act I and Isoldes Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde

CD 27
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

CD 28
Ravel: La Valse
Ravel: Menuet Antique
Ravel: Ma Mère L’oye
Ravel: Boléro

CD 29-30
Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder

CD 31
Handel: Water Music: Suite No.1 in F Major for Orchestra, HWV 348

CD 32
Stravinksy: The Firebird
Stravinsky: The Song of the Nightingale

CD 33
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé

CD 34
Berio: Nones
Berio: Allelujah II
Berio: Concerto for Two Pianos

CD 35-36
Schoenberg: Moses und Aron

CD 37
Falla: El sombrero de tres picos
Falla: Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin and Cello

CD 38
Bartók: Bluebeard’s Castle, Op. 11 (Sz 48)

CD 39
Dukas: La Péri
Roussel: Symphony No. 3 in G minor, Op. 42

CD 40
Bartók: The Wooden Prince, Op. 13 (Sz 60)

CD 41
Varese: Amériques
Varese: Ionisation
Varese: Arcana

CD 42
Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été, Op. 7
Berlioz: La Mort de Cléopâtre

CD 43
Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite
Stravinsky: Scherzo fantastique, Op. 3
Stravinsly: Symphonies Of Wind Instruments

CD 44
Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21

CD 45
Wagner: Sigfried Idyll

CD 46
Webern: Passacaglia for Orchestra, Op. 1
Webern: Entflieht auf leichten Kähnen, Op. 2
Webern: Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6
Webern: Zwei Lieder für mittlere Stimme und acht Instrumente, Op. 8
Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10
Webern: Vier Lieder für Sopran und Orchester, Op. 13
Webern: Sechs Lieder für Singstimme und vier Instrumente, Op. 14 nach Gedichten von Georg Trakl
Webern: Fünf geistliche Lieder für Sopran und fünf Instrumente, Op. 15
Webern: Fünf Canons nach lateinischen Texten für Sopran, Klarinette und Baßklarinette, Op. 16
Webern: Drei Volkstexte für Singstimme und drei Instrumente, Op. 17
Webern: Drei Lieder für Singstimme, Es-Klarinette und Gitarre, Op. 18
Webern: Zwei Lieder für gemischten Chor und fünf Instrumente, Op. 19
Webern: Symphony for Chamber Orchestra, Op. 21

CD 47
Webern: Quartet for Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, Violin and Piano, Op. 22
Webern: Concerto for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Trumpet,Trombone, Violin, Viola and Piano, Op. 24
Webern: Das Augenlicht für gemischten Chor und Orchester, Op. 26, Worte von Hildegard Jone
Webern: Cantata No. 1, Op. 29
Webern: Variations for Orchestra, Op. 30 (1940)
Webern: Cantata No. 2, Op. 31
Webern: Fünf Sätze für Streichquartett, Op. 5
Webern: Fuga No. 2 (Ricercata) a 6 voci from Musikalisches Opfer, BWV 1079, No. 5

CD 48
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 (Version for String Orchestra (1943)
Berg: Three Pieces from “Lyric Suite”

CD 49
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
Handel: Berenice, HWV 38
Handel: Concerto in F Major for 2 Wind Choirs and Strings, HWV 334

CD 50
Berg: Lulu – Suite
Berg: Der Wein
Ravel: Shéhérazade, Ouverture de Féerie
Ravel: Fanfare Pour L’Eventail de Jeanne

CD 51
Carter: Symphony of Three Orchestras
Carter: A Mirror On Which To Dwell – Six Poems Of Elizabeth Bishop

CD 52
Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46
Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31
Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16
Schoenberg: Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene, Op. 34

CD 53
Wagner: Wesendonk Lieder
Mahler: Rückert Lieder

CD 54
Schoenberg: Serenade, Op. 24
Schoenberg: Lied der Waldtaube
Schoenberg: Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, Op. 41

CD 55
Schoenberg: Die Jakobsleiter
Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17
Schoenberg: Die glückliche Hand, Op. 18

CD 56
Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9
Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 38
Schoenberg: 3 Pieces for Chamber Orchestra
Schoenberg: Four Orchestral Songs, Op. 22

CD 57
Boulez: Eclat
Boulez: Multiples
Boulez: Rituel (In Memory of Bruno Maderna)

CD 58
Varese: Equatorial
Varese: Deserts
Varese: Intégrales
Varese: Hyperprism
Varese: Octandre
Varese: Offrandes (Album Version)
Varese: Density 21.5

CD 59
Ravel: Shéhérazade
Ravel: Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Ravel: Chansons madécasses
Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Ravel: Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques

CD 60
Schoenberg: Suite for 2 Clarinets, Bass Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano, Op. 29
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4

CD 61
Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (To the Memory of an Angel)
Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6

CD 62
Boulez: Le Marteau Sans Maître
Boulez: II Notations Pour Piano
Boulez: III Structures Pour Deux Pianos, Livre II

CD 63
Schoenberg: Friede Auf Erden, Op. 13
Schoenberg: Kol Nidre, Op. 39
Schoenberg: Drei Volkslieder, Op. 49
Schoenberg: Zwei Kanons
Schoenberg: Drei Volkslieder
Schoenberg: Vier Stücke, Op. 27

CD 64
Schoenberg: Drei Satiren, Op. 28
Schoenberg: Sechs Stücke, Op. 35
Schoenberg: Dreimal Tausend Jahre, Op. 50A
Schoenberg: De Profundis, Op. 50 B (Psalm 130)
Schoenberg: Moderner Psalm, Op. 50 C

CD 65
Berio: IL Ritorno Degli Snovidenia per solo violoncello e piccolo orchestra (1976)
Berio: Chemins II (su/after “Sequenza VI”) (1967)
Berio: Chemins IV (su/after “Sequenza VII”) (1975)
Berio: Corale (su/after “Sequenza VIII”) (1981)
Berio: Points On The Curve To Find… for piano and 22 instrumentalists (1974)

CD 66
Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder
Berg: Fünf Orchesterlieder von Altenberg Op.4
Berg: Jugendlieder (Selections)
Berg: Zwei Lieder
Berg: Er klagt, dass der Frühling so kurz blüht from Jugendlieder (Excerpt)

CD 67
Scriabin: Symphony No. 4, Le Poeme de l’extase, Op. 54
Bartók: Four Pieces, Op. 12 (Sz 51)
Bartók: Three Village Scenes (Sz 79)
Stravinsky: Suite No. 1 pour petit orchestre
Stravinsky: c526

Sony Classical is delighted to announce an unprecedented reissue of the recordings made by Pierre Boulez for CBS/American Columbia. They are all being issued together for the first time in a single Sony Classical box set of 67 CDs. Every recording comes from the best source; several have been newly remastered from the original analogue tapes, such as Bergs Altenberg Lieder, Op. 4 (1967), Seven Early Songs (1972) and Carter’s A Mirror On Which To Dwell.


One of the towering figures of modern music, Boulez began his conducting career in 1958 in Baden-Baden, Germany. His remarkable achievements in Europe brought him to the attention of George Szell, who invited him to make his US debut in 1965 with the Cleveland Orchestra. Boulez went on to serve in Cleveland as principal guest conductor and musical advisor from 1967 until 1972, and has maintained close ties to that elite ensemble ever since. In 1971, he became chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London, and the same year he succeeded Leonard Bernstein as music director of the New York Philharmonic, holding that illustrious position until 1977.


Principally with those leading orchestras, Pierre Boulez – who began his conducting career in order to do justice do his own challenging works – quickly garnered the reputation of a peerless interpreter of Berlioz and Wagner; Debussy and Ravel; Schoenberg, Berg and Webern; Bartók and Stravinsky; Messiaen, Varèse and Carter. Early on, CBS began documenting that reputation with the benchmark recordings now being brought together in a single release.


The series began in 1966 with a complete recording of Berg’s Wozzeck at the Paris Opera and Debussy’s La Mer, Jeux and Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune with London’s New Philharmonia (“A record that needed to be made” – Records & Recording). Both won Grammys. It continued into the 1990s with one distinguished release after another, far too many to list here. A few highlights: Stravinsky’s Sacre du printemps, a Boulez speciality, recorded in Cleveland in 1969 (another Grammy winner), Debussy’s only opera Pelléas et Mélisande at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1970 (“A revelation” – Saturday Review; “…a delicacy and clarity I have never before encountered” – New York Times), and, that same year with the London Symphony Orchestra, the first complete recording of Mahler’s Das klagende Lied.


Boulez’s New York Philharmonic recordings of Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra and Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé brought him further Grammys in 1973 and 1975, respectively. Other acclaimed opera recordings followed, including Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron, both with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. There were a number of surprises and rarities, too: Handel’s Water Music, Berlioz’s Lélio narrated by Jean-Louis Barrault, Wagner’s rarely heard choral work Love-Feast of the Apostles, and a controversial, stimulating Beethoven Fifth Symphony. These are, of course, all to be found in this new collection.