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Boulez edition

>How do I get into classical?
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>Boule..

Shut Up

Wagner.

Nothing Else Matters.

Only Wagner will be discussed further ahead.

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Go spend a quarter of you day listening to Faust or whatever.

Post something genuinely interesting that Boulez wrote.

I don't even know who that is, I just don't like Fagner.

Boulez worshipped Wagner...

Matthias Pintscher conducts Boulez
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Pintscher's Five Orchestral Pieces (1997)
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BBBBBBBBBASED

Boulez is mostly about texture - the density, the register, the instrumentation, etc. The succession of colors, pretty much. He is, after all, tremendously influenced by both Debussy and late Webern; you can't just listen to melodies in Boulez, it requires a keener ear. Ironically his later works are more accessible than his early works, which adhere more to hardline serialism.

If you want a piece that is, by virtue of its scoring (cellos plus solo cello), rather melodic, try Messagesquisse: youtube.com/watch?v=hfwNYN8v3uc

If you like the wilder, more motoric stuff of Bartók and Stravinsky, this is pretty much where that one picks up. ...explosante-fixe..., being essentially a concerto, is accessible for the same reasons, but quite a bit denser (but also more beautiful and sensual imo): youtube.com/watch?v=WOd0o969C2Y

Among the other orchestral works, Rituel is, by virtue of its solemn expression, also quite accessible: youtube.com/watch?v=-k7EXNZqIUg
It's less melodic than the two other works I mentioned, but quite close to the exotic soundworld of Debussy and late Webern. The next step would be the Notations, quite early, simple piano pieces which he's been transcribing into orchestral music over the years.
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The mix of his old, simpler twelve-tone style and the super-advanced, colorful, occasionally even Wagnerian orchestration is just so amazing.

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And that gentlemen is how you should describe composers, Based.