Name: Prom 17: Beethoven & Boulez
Start: 2012-07-26T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2012-07-26T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

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BBC Proms

Conductor

François-Xavier Roth

Orchestra

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Singer

Hilary Summers

Mezzo-soprano

Prom 17: Beethoven & Boulez

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Public

Concert

Oratorio / Orchestral

Quintet in E-flat major, Op.16

Le Marteau sans maître

Paul Koneri

Approved

About this event
After Beethoven’s Quintet for piano and winds, written soon after his arrival in Vienna, François-Xavier Roth directs Pierre Boulez's breakthrough piece, Le marteau sans maître (‘The Hammer without a Master’), arguably the single most influential composition of the 1950s. By interlocking settings of three poems by the Surrealist poet René 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 – a labyrinth of exotic sound at once tightly organised and delirious.

There will be no interval

English

Prom 17: Beethoven & Boulez by Beethoven, Boulez, From (2012/2012), Conductor François-Xavier Roth, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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