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1	Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat in Ef; Berg: Chamber Concerto for piano & violin (1982) more music like this performed by Daniel Barenboim (piano), Michel Arrignon (clarinet), Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Ensemble InterContemporain, Pierre Boulez (conductor) composed by Alban Berg, Igor Stravinsky see all copies from £3.92! new only from £6.09!
2	György Ligeti: Clear or Cloudy (2006) more music like this performed by Alfons Kontarsky (piano), Aloys Kontarsky (piano), Douglas Boyd (oboe), Ensemble InterContemporain, Gerd Zacher (organ), Gianluca Cascioli (piano), Hagen Quartett, Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet), Jacques Zoon (flute), James Sommerville (horn) composed by György Ligeti Deutsche Grammophon's budget-priced, four-CD collection of all the works by György Ligeti in its catalog has many things to commend it, beginning with the title. Clear or Cloudy is a profoundly astute description of the composer's career, encompassing both the great sound clouds of his micropolyphonic work of the 1960s, such as Atmosphères, ... see all copies from £15.92! new only from £15.92!
3	Alban Berg Collection more music like this performed by Aage Haugland (vocals), Alexander Maly (vocals), Alfred Sramek (vocals), Anna Gonda (vocals), Anna Ringart (vocals), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Aribert Reimann (piano), Bengt Forsberg (piano) composed by Alban Berg, Johann Strauss II see all copies from £30.18! new only from £30.18!
4	Panorama: Igor Stravinsky (2000) more music like this performed by Ensemble InterContemporain (chamber ensemble), Tamas Vasary (piano), State Academy Russian Chorus (choir, chorus) composed by Igor Stravinsky see all copies from £11.80! new only from £11.80!
5	Varese: Arcana; Ameriques; Ionization; Offrandes; Density 21.5; Octandre; Integrales (1990) more music like this performed by Ensemble InterContemporain, Lawrence Beauregard (flute), New York Philharmonic, Rachel Yakar (soprano), Pierre Boulez (conductor) composed by Edgard Varèse Pierre Boulez's insightful interpretations of Varèse's music were important additions to a once meager catalog of recordings. The 1977 release of Ionisation, Arcana, and Amériques came as a revelation and redressed the false impressions other wooden and inept performances had left of these pieces. Boulez's recordings have vivid details, room for ... see all copies from £5.99! new only from £5.99!
6	Ligeti: Concertos for Cello, Violin & Piano more music like this performed by Ensemble InterContemporain, Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Saschko Gawriloff (violin), Pierre Boulez (conductor) composed by György Ligeti see all copies from £11.68! new only from £11.68!
7	Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire; Lied der Waldtaube; Erwartung (1993) more music like this performed by Antony Pay (clarinet), Antony Pay (clarinet), Daniel Barenboim (piano), Ensemble InterContemporain [members of], Janis Martin (soprano), Jessye Norman (soprano), Michel Debost (piccolo flute), Michel Debost (flute), Pinchas Zukerman (violin) composed by Arnold Schoenberg see all copies from £6.74! new only from £6.74!
8	Complete Webern more music like this performed by Christiane Oelze (soprano), Clemens Hagen (cello), David Finckel (cello), Emerson String Quartet, Ensemble InterContemporain, Eric Schneider (piano), Francoise Pollet (soprano), Gerald Finley (bass), Gianluca Cascioli (piano), Gidon Kremer (violin) composed by Anton Webern, Johann Sebastian Bach see all copies from £40.42! new only from £40.42!
9	Boulez conducts Boulez more music like this performed by Ensemble InterContemporain, Hilary Summers (mezzo-soprano), Pierre Boulez (conductor) composed by Pierre Boulez Of all Pierre Boulez's works, only Le Marteau sans maître (1953-1955) has achieved worldwide recognition as a modern masterpiece, partly because of the praise lavished on it by fellow composers and critics, but also because the public responded to the piece with uncommon openness to its rarefied expression and fascination with its fresh timbral ... see all copies from £7.49! new only from £8.16!
10	Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht Op4; Suite for instruments in Ef (1993) more music like this performed by Alain Damiens (clarinet), Alain Marion (flute), Alain Planès (celeste), Andre Cazalet (horn), Charles-Andre Linale (violin), Cristian Petrescu (piano), Didier Pateau (oboe), Ensemble InterContemporain [members of], Garth Knox (viola) composed by Arnold Schoenberg see all copies from £4.37! new only from £6.74!
11	Boulez: Sur Incises; Messagesquisse; Anthèmes 2 more music like this performed by Ensemble de violoncelles, Hae Sun Kang (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Soloists of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez (conductor) composed by Pierre Boulez If one characteristic stands out in the contemporary works of Pierre Boulez, it is the remarkable depths of sonority he achieves through methods of multiplication and elaboration. In their unique ways, the three pieces on this Deutsche Grammophon reissue are intensely wrought complexes of layered timbres, reiterated attacks, and mirrored motifs, ... see all copies from £7.38! new only from £7.38!
12 view cover	Schoenberg (2005) more music like this performed by Accentus, Caroline Chassany (soprano), Ensemble InterContemporain, Paul-Alexandre Dubois (bass) composed by Arnold Schoenberg This compelling collection of Arnold Schoenberg's choral music works well as a sampler of the composer's varied interests and changing methods, and provides clear examples from the early chromatic and atonal periods to the dodecaphony of the mature masterworks. The two versions of Friede auf Erden (the 1907 a cappella original and the 1911 version ... see all copies from £9.70! new only from £11.05!
13 view cover	Berio: Corale/Chemins ll & lV (1990) more music like this performed by Jean Strauch (cello), Jean Sulem (viola), Laszlo Hadady (oboe), Maryvonne Le Dizes-Richard (violin), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Ensemble InterContemporain composed by Luciano Berio see all copies from £6.74! new only from £6.74!
14 view cover	Unsuk Chin: Akrostichon-Wortspiel more music like this performed by Dimitri Vassilakis (piano), Ensemble InterContemporain, Piia Komsi (soprano), Samuel Favre (percussion), Unsuk Chin (electronics) composed by Unsuk Chin In 2004, Korean-born composer Unsuk Chin pulled off what might seem impossible -- she won the prestigious Grauemeyer Award for her Violin Concerto with no more representation in terms of commercial recordings than a single electro-acoustic piece included on an obscure compilation more than 10 years old. Commonly, to be awarded such a grand ... see all copies from £8.21! new only from £8.21!
15 view cover	Boulez: Pli selon Pli more music like this performed by Christine Schäfer (soprano), Ensemble InterContemporain, Pierre Boulez (conductor) composed by Pierre Boulez This recording of Pli selon Pli may be considered definitive. Pierre Boulez worked on this massive composition from 1957 to 1989, and over those years issued different versions and recordings of the work in progress. "Don" and "Improvisation sur Mallarmé III" have been extensively rewritten and are heard here in their final form. Compared to a ... see all copies from £14.81! new only from £31.66!
16 view cover	Olivier Messiaen: Sept Haïkaï, Couleurs de la cité céleste; etc. (2000) more music like this performed by Yvonne Loriod (piano), Ensemble InterContemporain, Pierre Boulez (conductor) composed by Olivier Messiaen, Recorded Sound see all copies from £7.50! new only from £7.50!
17 view cover	Elliott Carter: A Symphony of Three Orchestras; Varèse: Deserts; Ecuatorial; Hyperprism (1995) more music like this performed by Ensemble InterContemporain, New York Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez (conductor) composed by Edgard Varèse, Elliott Carter see all copies from £5.99! new only from £5.99!
18 view cover	Arnold Schoenberg: Serenade/Five Pieces For Orchestra (1993) more music like this performed by Alain Neveux (piano), Andre Saint-Clivier (mandolin), Ensemble InterContemporain [members of], Gerard Causse (viola), Guy Arnaud (clarinet), Jacques Ghestem (violin), John Shirley-Quirk (vocals), Marie-Therese Ghirardi (guitar), Michel Arrignon (clarinet) composed by Arnold Schoenberg The three works presented here reveal distinctly different phases of Arnold Schoenberg's development, each a critical point of departure. In the Pieces (5) for Orchestra (1909), Schoenberg's atonal language appears full-blown and marks a clear break with tonality. For the first time, Schoenberg places content over form and dispenses with any ... see all copies from £5.99! new only from £5.99!
19 view cover	Boulez conducts Schoenberg, Berio, Carter, Kurtág, Xenakis more music like this performed by Adrienne Csengery (soprano), Ensemble InterContemporain, István Matuz (flute), Martha Fabian (cymbalom), Phyllis Bryn-Julson (speech/speaker/speaking part), Regis Pasquier (violin), Swingle Singers, John Alldis Choir (choir, chorus) composed by Arnold Schoenberg, Brian Ferneyhough, Elliott Carter, Gérard Grisey, György Kurtág, Harrison Birtwistle, Hugues Dufourt, Iannis Xenakis, Luciano Berio see all copies from £24.53! new only from £24.53!
20 view cover	Boulez: Notations; Structures; ...explosante-fixe... (1995) more music like this performed by Andrew Gerzso (electro-acoustics), Emmanuelle Ophèle (flute), Ensemble InterContemporain, Sophie Cherrier (midi flute) composed by Pierre Boulez Die-hard fans of Pierre Boulez's music may find no difficulty in this disc's selections, though others less familiar with the composer's music may question the rationale behind the program. Notations and Structures, Book II, for two pianos are logically paired, since both inhabit the same sound world and, more subtly, can be positioned fairly ... see all copies from £9.49!
21 view cover	Ligeti: Aventures (2002) more music like this performed by Alfons Kontarsky (piano), Aloys Kontarsky (piano), Ensemble InterContemporain, Gerd Zacher (organ), Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet), Jane Manning (soprano), Mary Thomas (mezzo-soprano), Roland Pöntinen (piano), William Pearson (bass) composed by György Ligeti see all copies from £6.11!
22 view cover	Boulez conducts Webern more music like this performed by BBC Singers (singer), Christiane Oelze (soprano), Francoise Pollet (soprano), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Ensemble InterContemporain, Pierre Boulez (conductor) composed by Anton Webern see all copies from £21.81!
23 view cover	Boulez: ...Explosante-fixe... more music like this performed by Andrew Gerzso (electro-acoustics), Emmanuelle Ophèle (flute), Ensemble InterContemporain, Florent Boffard (piano), Pierre-Andre Valade (flute), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Sophie Cherrier (midi flute), Pierre Boulez (conductor) composed by Pierre Boulez Die-hard fans of Pierre Boulez's music may find no difficulty in this disc's selections, though others less familiar with the composer's music may question the rationale behind the program. Notations and Structures, Book II, for two pianos are logically paired, since both inhabit the same sound world and, more subtly, can be positioned fairly ... see all copies from £8.09!
24 view cover	Boulez: Sur Incises/Messagesquisse/Anthèms 2 (2000) more music like this performed by Ensemble de violoncelles, Hae Sun Kang (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Soloists of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez (conductor) composed by Pierre Boulez If one characteristic stands out in the contemporary works of Pierre Boulez, it is the remarkable depths of sonority he achieves through methods of multiplication and elaboration. In their unique ways, the three pieces on this Deutsche Grammophon release are intensely wrought complexes of layered timbres, reiterated attacks, and mirrored motifs, ... see all copies from £6.39!
25 view cover	Roger Reynolds: The Paris Pieces (1996) more music like this performed by Ensemble InterContemporain, Marie Kobayashi (vocals), Philip Larson (vocals), Scott Dunn (piano), Steve Schick (marimba) composed by Roger Reynolds see all copies from £21.96! new only from £21.96!

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