Pierre Boulez, Pli selon pli (Don) - Ensemble intercontemporain - Matthias Pintscher 

Pli selon Pli, à chaque nouvelle écoute, mon plaisir est plus grand encore qu'à la précédente !

This piece was a great discovery for me when I was a kid. I still think it's one of the greatest - and most original - mid-century works.

Great piece, Great performance, Great conductor and composer

R.I.P Pierre Boulez, it was great having you in this world...

Quelle chance de pouvoir entendre cela sur RU-vid. Décidément ce site est capable du pire et du meilleur !

Subliminal message 38 seconds in makes me want to buy every recording Ensemble InterContemporain has made with Boulez

It became usual to play excerpts of Pli selon Pli, an exceptional encounter between a symbolic, hermetic poet Mallarmé, indeed a cery great Franch poet, and the symbolic and hermetic language of Pierre Boulez. It is an encounter at the very top of the art., and one of the great masterworks of the French music in the second part of the XX° Century,.together with "Espaces acoiustiques" of Gérard Grisey.

Brilliant sense of imagination and sound construction.

I love the chords at the beginning so mysterious yet beautiful.

Um respeito absoluto à voz é o que se ouve aqui. Como Boulez conseguiu isso? Num equilíbrio perfeito entre os sons e o mistério que emana dos acordes dissonantes. Coisa de gênio!!!1

Beautiful performance !

Uma obra fascinante, como o próprio Mallarmé a desejaria e pensava ser. Uma das obras mais incríveis de boulez e uma de minhas favoritas do seu repertório.

awesome

I was a student of Maestro Boulez in 1963 at Harvard. Years later I painted a picture entitled Pli Selon Pli which I gave him and it hung in his Paris apartment for years. Where it is now is anyone's guess.

Eu que sou leigo não estudo bulhufas, mas não se pode negar que é uma apresentação muito rica

so good...

Obviously the work of a brilliant mind. This is one of the greatest examples of music in bits and pieces. It is most entertaining while it is being performed but you cannot remember a single phrase once you leave the hall. The 20th century saw a lot of music like that. It is music that delights the mind and avoids the heart.

Copied from Joan Peysers book, "To Boulez and Beyond" pg. 235 and 236: The first movement begins with the opening line of the Mallarme poem "Don du Poeme" "Je t'apporte l'enfant d'une nuit d'Idumee" (I bring you the child of an Idumaean night). Wallace Fowlie, a Mallarme scholar, writes that "from the title we know the gift is a poem but the image signifies it is a dismal birth. The poem is inadequate and the birth is covered with blood. The poem is disinherited as soon as it is created and is thus compared to the child of Edom, which was the country of Esau, the brother disinherited in favor of Jacob." That is surely an accurate metaphor for the way Boulez viewed the birth and savage assault on his Idea.

9:02 this chord!

Is this the 1962 version or the 1989 one?

I love this piece, but my girlfriend calls it “Please Do Not Play.”

An odd piece - the soloist (Marisol Montalvo) has quite a sparse part, and the orchestra only occasionally plays at the same time as she sings. Also an odd ensemble - it has woodwind, brass, and percussion sections like a large orchestra, but about a quarter to a third as many strings; the violin section is particularly small . And Marisol Montalvo has an amazing set of lungs, as the saying goes.

Sounds like Debussy adopting Webernian colours.

0:54

Where's the monster in that terror film scene? It's behind the curtain? Under the wood floor?

"What does it mean to say that a large-scale work like Mr. Boulez's 29-year-old "Pli Selon Pli" shrinks to insignificance in comparison with almost any Schubert song or Chopin prelude? Nothing, really. In the second half of the 20th century, we demand a different kind of genius of our geniuses. Mr. Boulez's works serve his listeners most usefully by isolating them momentarily from the human feelings that an "Erlkönig", let alone a "Winterreise", can force to the surface. The excerpts from "Pli Selon Pli" that Mr. Boulez conducted at Carnegie Hall confronted the listener in no such embarrassing manner: they dealt with the Mallarme texts antiseptically, like a rubber-gloved dental technician. This sort of expressively uncontaminated art is a thing of its time and therefore in a sense legitimate. It may be described as the 'great' music of a century in its death throes" -Donal Henahan, former music critic New York Times

tuuuuut,pîîîîîp,blonk,.....crouiiic : du Boulez quoi !!! Toujours aussi...comment dire.....pénible (?) (soyons courtois).Aux amateurs , je peux recommander les...travaux dans ma rue : toute sorte de sons (moteur,marteau piqueur,grue,bétonneuse,etc) : au moins aussi passionnant (et gratuit !!!)

C'est très laid

We wait and we wait and we wait that something is going to happen, but nothing happen, this music is stuck in its inability to move or take shape or carry some life or express anything interesting, nothing but vacuity and boredom, just an annoying noise. This music is a failure, worse an imposture ...

Ne jamais laisser un comptable composer car sinon l'auditeur paye la facture avec ses tympans.