Our critics choose highlights from a lineup that includes Joshua Bell, Nathalie Joachim, Barbara Hannigan and more.

Musical cross-pollination came to life in London Sinfonietta’s electrifying performance, in a seamless blend of theatre, ...

Performing specially commissioned music - and music by Pierre Boulez - will be Caoutchouc and Plus-Minus Ensemble. Caoutchouc ...

The Boulez and Ravel showed Aimard can produce substantial volume, but for him it’s not simple muscularity. There was a ...

The visionary conductor and composer Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) was associated with the BBC for nearly 60 years: from an appearance at the Concert Hall of Broadcasting House in 1957 for a ...

Boulez studied with Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire and then with Andrée Vaurabourg (Honegger’s wife) and René Leibowitz. He developed an interest in 12-tone composition. Major early scores ...

This concert by the London Symphony Orchestra had the appearance of a dual celebratory function, marking as it did both the centenary of Pierre Boulez, one of the towering figures of music in the ...

The musician Pierre Boulez - one of the dominant composers of the 20th Century and a deeply respected conductor - is perhaps most widely known for his iconoclastic utterances, suggesting we 'blow the ...

Incises was a piano piece on which Boulez based this 37-minute work, composed between 1996 and 1998. It’s divided into two substantial movements or – as Boulez ironically titles them – ‘Moments’, ...