Our critics choose highlights from a lineup that includes Joshua Bell, Nathalie Joachim, Barbara Hannigan and more.

Musical cross-pollination came to life in London Sinfonietta’s electrifying performance, in a seamless blend of theatre, ...

Performing specially commissioned music - and music by Pierre Boulez - will be Caoutchouc and Plus-Minus Ensemble. Caoutchouc ...

The Boulez and Ravel showed Aimard can produce substantial volume, but for him it’s not simple muscularity. There was a ...

Pierre Boulez – conductor, composer and provocative musical thinker – will be celebrated during his centenary year with a host of events.

The musician Pierre Boulez - one of the dominant composers of the 20th Century and a deeply respected conductor - is perhaps most widely known for his iconoclastic utterances, suggesting we 'blow the ...

This concert by the London Symphony Orchestra had the appearance of a dual celebratory function, marking as it did both the centenary of Pierre Boulez, one of the towering figures of music in the ...

Boulez studied with Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire and then with Andrée Vaurabourg (Honegger’s wife) and René Leibowitz. He developed an interest in 12-tone composition. Major early scores ...

Live from London's Milton Court, musicians from Guildhall School of Music & Drama perform music by Pierre Boulez as Radio 3 pays tribute to the influential composer and conductor. Show more Live ...

Incises was a piano piece on which Boulez based this 37-minute work, composed between 1996 and 1998. It’s divided into two substantial movements or – as Boulez ironically titles them – ‘Moments’, ...