Programme
- Piano Quintet in E flat major(25 mins)
- Le marteau sans maĂźtre(35 mins)
Performers
- Hilary Summersmezzo-soprano
- FrançoisâXavier Rothconductor
Composers
About this event
After Beethovenâs Quintet for piano and winds, written soon after his arrival in Vienna, François-Xavier Roth directs Pierre Boulez's breakthrough piece, Le marteau sans maĂźtre (âThe Hammer without a Masterâ), arguably the single most influential composition of the 1950s. By interlocking settings of three poems by the Surrealist poet RenĂ© Char with commentaries from specific sub-groups of its ensemble, Boulez established a new kind of rapport between text and music through unsuspected continuities of timbre â a labyrinth of exotic sound at once tightly organised and delirious.
There will be no interval
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Unfortunately Pierre Boulez has had to withdraw from this Prom. We are grateful to François-Xavier Roth for appearing in his place.