Michael Barenboim, a player of ‘crackling intensity’ (The Guardian), has become almost synonymous with Pierre Boulez’ groundbreaking works for solo violin and live electronics. Gilbert Nuono joins him today to realise these effects live in concert.

Michael Barenboim: Boulez & Electronics

Southbank Centre

Absolute music. Boulez with a homage to Stravinsky, Manoury with a homage to Boulez and Lim with her work dedicated to a Persian Sufi master – these reverences are just the cause, but not the point of origin, the foundation, on which these three works are resting. This is all about music. Nothing outside music diverts the attention. Fixed structures contain glowing instrumental sounds – an inquiry into musical language and what it is capable of; the soul of sound without programme.

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Explosion

Wiener Konzerthaus

With Luciano Berio's song cycle Folk Songs, a tribute to the mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian, and two characteristic and groundbreaking compositions from Pierre Boulez's oeuvre, the festival debut at the Tokyo Spring Festival marks the 100th anniversary of these two landmark composers. In addition, Philippe Manoury has developed a deep relationship with Japanese musical life. His Passacaille pour Tokyo is a reimagination of musical form in the spirit of Boulez.

Tokyo Harusai Spring Festival: Boulez & Berio 100

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan

This cutting-edge concert is a vital part of Carnegie Hall’s Pierre Boulez centennial celebration, combining the creative forces of the International Contemporary Ensemble with the latest breakthroughs in responsive music-performance technology. It features a world premiere that incorporates the machine-learning advancements of SOMAX 2, developed with researchers at IRCAM (Boulez’s world-renowned institute for computer and electro-acoustic music and innovation). The program also includes works by Boulez and leading composers inspired by his legacy, including longtime IRCAM researcher and visionary composer Philippe Manoury; genre-defying American multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey; and the late Kaija Saariaho.

International Contemporary Ensemble

Carnegie Hall

Exactly one hundred years since Pierre Boulez was born. Conductor, composer, theoretician, how can we sum up this figure, whose tutelary shadow continues to hover over the past century? Philippe Manoury, who was a close friend, pays tribute to him, and after his whimsical Notations , the Orchestre National de France remembers the immense Wagnerian that was Boulez: the first act of Die Walküre resurrects memories of a certain Bayreuth festival.

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Cité de la Musique

David Robertson & Leonidas Kavakos

Munich Residence

The French composer Paul Dukas opens the programme with a fanfare for a fallen angel in search of immortality.

Philippe Manoury

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Oct 12, 2025

Michael Barenboim: Boulez & Electronics · Southbank Centre

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Explosion · Klangforum Wien

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