Pierre Boulez in the Great Performances broadcast “Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Pierre Boulez Conducts Mahler’s 7th ” (2010). Not only was Boulez a gifted pianist and conductor, but, in his early ...

An invigorating all-day tribute to the maverick French composer-conductor felt like the end of an era. Plus, heartfelt Mahler and a star mezzo’s Winterreise At a talk about Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) ...

Tonight’s Proms concert featured a tantalising double bill featuring Pierre Boulez’s Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna (1974-5) and the rarely performed original version of Gustav Mahler’s epic student ...

Something remarkable happens to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra whenever Pierre Boulez occupies the podium. The orchestra becomes an extension of his modernist sensibilities. This melding of the CSO’s ...

Though the Mahler symphonies have been a regular part of Pierre Boulez's repertory for at least 30 years, his performances of them have never achieved quite the same status as his exemplary accounts ...

Completed in 1880 when Mahler was just 20, "Das Klagende Lied" (Song of lamentation) is a cantata of often beautiful contrasts. Despite its early place in Mahler’s career, it’s still clearly his with ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

It’s hard to recall that Pierre Boulez was once the Angry Young Man of modern music. For decades he seemed almost avuncular, telling us in genial pre-concert talks that modern music really doesn’t ...