Young Boulez plays with Madame Messiaen
mainFootage of Boulez and the piano is rare.
This clip with Yvonne Loriod is utterly historic.
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It would be nice if they played “Chopsticks” together.
As PB explaines, and how the rehearsing part looks and sounds, it gives the impression of flirting in code.
the most over-rated conductor.
I could think of many others who deserve that description.
Audio / video evidence of Boulez at the piano is indeed very rare. Paul Sacher once told me (in Oxford, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Bartók when he conducted two of the three works that he’d commissioned from Bartók and the third, the Sonata for two pianos and percussion, made up the remainder of the programme) that he remembered well the young Boulez practising intensely for hours after a day’s teaching and he mentioned his particular focus on the music of Chopin. Sacher was convinced that, had he wished to pursue a career principally as a pianist, Boulez was eminently capable of doing so; the rest isn’t history, one might say, for that was clearly not how Boulez saw his life.
Alistair Hinton; why has nobody-to my knowledge-written a biography of Paul Sacher? I offered to do this: to write one in French, but the man and his foundation were decidedly paranoid and afraid everybdoy was after his money.
Structures II by Boulez is one of the most fascinating statements for two piano’s of the past 20th century!
Well…… as a statement perhaps, but what kind of statement? Plinky-plonk progressiveness? As far as music is concerned, I would rather think of Bartok.
Love the spectacles Mlle Loriod is wearing. Like a lady from Gary Larson ‘Far Side’
Gary Larson got that idea from a modern music concert he attended in Paris in the eighties where she played ten looks on the Xmas child.
I studied with Yvonne Loriod thirty years ago as a private student in Paris with the first Nadia and Lili International Foundation Scholarship and a French Government Scholarship. Madame Loriod was a wonderful teacher. Warm, generous, with a sense of humour. A genius as a musician and a formidably gifted pianist who had studied with Marcel Ciampi at the Paris Conservatoire.