The last collection of Schubert’s lieder, called Swan Song by the publisher after the composer’s death, performed by one of the greatest duos in the lied world, Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber.

For the inaugural concert of the second Pierre Boulez Biennial, Daniel Barenboim conducts Dérive 2, which he considers the composer’s masterpiece. In its finesse and colours, the piece draws parallels with the oeuvre of Claude Debussy.

This Concert-atelier devoted to Pierre Boulez’s piano music showcases rare pieces, with three scores drawn from his catalogue. His last composition for piano solo, Incises, resounds as a particularly brilliant work.

After their complete Brahms symphonies in November 2019, Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin return with a programme of works by Beethoven and Boulez.

This programme by Michael Wendeberg and Nicholas Hodges combines the more rare—Sonata for Two Pianos (1948)—with the more radical—Book I of Structures—composed four years later, an important milestone in Pierre Boulez’s career.

Far from starting with a clean slate, Pierre Boulez draws from the past to create his own music—as with the early liturgical forms used for Répons and Anthèmes 2, performed here in the version for viola by Odile Auboin.