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La Mer – Les Siècles

Beacons of musical history

The poet Stéphane Mallarmé regularly opened the doors of his Paris apartment on Tuesdays, welcoming the likes of Maurice Maeterlinck, Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Stefan George. Cut. Pierre Boulez first performed his work Pli selon pli, based on Mallarmé poems, in 1957 and revised it again and again until 1990. What did Mallarmé and Boulez have in common? Both aspired to create the "complete, absolute" work of art, knowing full well that this does not exist. Boulez, in the meantime, also turned his attention to the oeuvre of Claude Debussy, a composer whom he revered. The celebrated work La Mer is considered a masterpiece of musical Impressionism, and is less about a portrayal of nature than about virtuoso instrumentation of abstract musical ideas.

Program

Pierre Boulez
„Pli Selon Pli“

Claude Debussy
„La Mer“

Estimated end time: 9:00 PM

Artist

Les Siècles
François-Xavier Roth Conductor
Sarah Aristidou Soprano

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