The sound oscillates regularly in register and density, and Boulez seems to try to get every possible sonority out of the piano, like Debussy extrapolated fifty years into the future. Having said ...

Pierre Boulez – conductor, composer and provocative musical thinker – will be celebrated during his centenary year with a host of events.

Boulez was able, with Glock, to devise unusual programmes, for example Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 (in which he played harpsichord), Berg’s Lulu suite, his own Éclat, and Debussy’s ...