Linie 2: 100 Jahre Pierre Boulez

Date & Time

Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 20:00

Venue

A concert workshop in Freiburg's E-Werk will feature conductor Oscar Jockel explaining Pierre Boulez's "Polyphonie X" with the SWR Symphony Orchestra. This piece, a scandal at its 1951 premiere, connects Boulez's early and later styles. Following the analysis and full performance, the concert includes Webern's arrangement of Bach's "Fuga Ricerata" and Webern's Symphony Op. 21, highlighting polyphony and musical development, both crucial to Boulez's work. A second performance of "Polyphonie X" concludes the evening.
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Musicians

SWR Symphonieorchester
Oscar Jockel	Conductor

Program

"Polyphonie X"	Pierre Boulez
"Fuga (2. Ricercata) a sei voci" aus dem "Musikalischen Opfer" BWV 1079/5	Johann Sebastian Bach/Anton Webern
Sinfonie op. 21	Anton Webern
"Polyphonie X"	Pierre Boulez

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