outis1953 (July 7, 2008 at 6:50 pm)

After 83 years, it's time Boulez got rid of that comb-over...

ad80ad (July 2, 2008 at 2:07 pm)

It is STRUCTURALISTIC music that is the OPPOSITE of chance music.If you don't like how the music sound don't mean that the composition of the work is guided by chance. Here, every note is calculated and weighted in all its parameters. So it is MODERN music.if YOU don't like modern music listen ancient music, or compose ancient music.But please don't compose by chance like neoclassical musician,use well the rules of tonality or of ancient modality,even more severe than those of serial music. ;-)

PCPTPCPT (July 2, 2008 at 8:12 am)

It's not proper serial music. It's a dodecaphonic piece, with a particular attention to rythmic construction (this can be better appreciated in the string quartet original version). It seems Boulez doesn't like too much the string orchestra version (because of the "tamer" sound), but rythmic complexity makes the quartet version quite difficult to play.

gaiboyy (July 1, 2008 at 7:35 pm)

c'est d'une grande froideur cette musique, j'y suis mal à l'aise. Dutilleux est plus agréable

Whiskybar23 (June 13, 2008 at 1:34 pm)

surprenant de la part de boulez... je me demande si c'est du sériel intégral. en tout cas d'une rare sensualité.

sequenzaVII (May 29, 2008 at 1:08 am)

Chance music, really? And hadn't the thought "someone may actually like the sound of this" occur to you? Well, I like the sound of it. Boulez actually moved away from serial composition quite some time ago, after the third piano sonata I think...

sshuck (May 27, 2008 at 7:32 am)

This music is very sensual. I love his harmonies that are altered gradually, note by note.

aldebussy (May 26, 2008 at 8:37 pm)

I'm sorry, but Boulez is quite a master of modern gimmickry. This is BULLSHIT. Music is not about the theoretical concepts behind it, but how it actually sounds. I don't care if chance music has got tons of theory supporting it, IT'S BS when performed.So is this.

schschubert (May 15, 2008 at 4:38 pm)

It is good that this peace is posted on YouTubes, becaurse mr. Bouleze is the most important composer of art-music of our times. I' am sorry to say, that I don't like it very much.

atralfalgar (May 10, 2008 at 9:44 am)

c'est de la pure nulité totale