“Music Director Profiles #1: Pierre Boulez” on “The New York Philharmonic This Week”

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”.  You’ll hear Wagner’s “Overture to “Tannhauser” and “Siegfried Idyll” with Pierre Boulez on the podium. Also on the program, Debussy’s “La Mer” and Berg’s “Lyric Suite”. 

Monday April 9: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 18-28)

Music Director Profiles #1: Pierre Boulez

(Selection/movement is complete unless marked ‘excerpt’)

Ravel: Rigaudon from Le Tombeau de Couperin (excerpt)

Debussy: La Mer and Debussy: Jeux (excerpt)

Berg: Rondo from Lulu Suite (excerpt)

Boulez: Polyphonie X (excerpt)

Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion, & Celesta (excerpt)

Stravinsky: Harbingers of Spring from The Rite of Spring (excerpt)

Ravel: Une Barque sur l’ocean (excerpt)

Carter: Symphony of Three Orchestras (NYP Premiere)

Varese: Deserts (excerpt)

Berg: Variations from Lulu Suite (excerpt)

Stravinsky: Petrushka’s Room (second tableau) from Petrushka

Berg: Lyric Suite  

Mahler: Symphony No. 3: III

Boulez: Improvisation I from Pli selon Pli (From the NYP Archives)

Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll

Wagner: Overture to Tannhauser

Boulez: Explosante-fixe (excerpt)