Program 817: Boulez at 100
KALW Broadcast Date: March 16, 2025 | Host: Joseph Bohigian
This Music from Other Minds celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Pierre Boulez, ahead of Other Minds’s concert for the French composer’s centenary with pianists Gloria Cheng and Ralph van Raat at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. The program opens with an excerpt of Charles Amirkhanian’s February 16, 1986, interview with Boulez for the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series. In the second half, you’ll hear pieces from Gloria Cheng’s recent album Root Progressions by Jon Jang and Linda May Han Oh and Ralph van Raat and Maarten van Veen’s recording of Magnus Lindberg’s Play I, along with an excerpt of Boulez’ rarely heard two-piano masterpiece Structures.
Program Audio
30-Second Spot
Track Info & Links
Title: Speaking of Music: Pierre Boulez (excerpt)
Record Label: Other Minds Archives
Title: Ancestors & Sisters
Composer: Jon Jang
Performer: Gloria Cheng, piano
Recording Title: Root Progressions
Record Label: Biophilia Recordings
Title: Littoral Tales
Composer: Linda May Han Oh
Performer: Gloria Cheng, piano
Recording Title: Root Progressions
Record Label: Biophilia Recordings
Title: Play I
Composer: Magnus Lindberg
Performers: Ralph van Raat and Maarten van Veen, pianos
Recording Title: Lindberg: Complete Piano Music
Record Label: Naxos
Catalog Number: 8.570542
Title: Structures Pour Deux Pianos Chapitre I
Composer: Pierre Boulez
Performers: Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Florent Boffard, pianos
Recording Title: Boulez Conducts Boulez (…Explosante-fixe… / Notations I–XII · Structures II)
Record Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Catalog Number: 445 833-2
