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Boulez at 100: Gerard McBurney

Michael Berkeley's guest is the composer and musicologist Gerard McBurney, who worked with composer Pierre Boulez for many years.

As part of Radio 3's Boulez at 100 day celebrating the centenary of composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, Michael Berkeley's guest is someone who knew Boulez well - composer and musicologist Gerard McBurney.
McBurney is most closely associated with the music of Russian composers 鈥� particularly Shostakovich 鈥� as a result of having lived and studied in Russia in the 1980s. Notable Shostakovich scores he has rescued from oblivion with completions and orchestrations include the music-hall show Hypothetically Murdered and the opera Orango. He talks to Michael about life in Russia in the years immediately before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
His many other musical projects have included working on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra鈥檚 long-running dramatized discovery series Beyond the Score, on many of which he collaborated with Boulez - about whom McBurney has first-hand insightful stories to relate.

Producer: Graham Rogers

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Music Played

  • William Byrd

    Mass for 3 voices

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • The Tallis Scholars Sing William Byrd.
    • Gimell.
    • 11.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in B flat Op.106 "Hammerklavier" (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Solomon.
    • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 29 "Hammerklavier" & 32.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 10 - 3rd mvt: Purgatorio

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Within four walls (Sunless)

    Performer: Alexandre Labinsky. Singer: Boris Christoff.
    • Mussorgsky : Songs.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Thou didst not know me in the crowd (Sunless)

    Performer: Alexandre Labinsky. Singer: Boris Christoff.
    • Mussorgsky : Songs.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 12.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Sonata No.2 in B minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Maria Yudina.
    • Russian Compact Disc.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    The Miraculous Mandarin (conclusion)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Bart贸k: The Miraculous Mandarin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.

  • Pierre Boulez

    D茅rive 1

    Ensemble: Ensemble intercontemporain. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Boulez: Le Marteau Sans Ma卯tre.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 10.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jean Hubeau. Ensemble: Quatuor Via Nova.
    • Faur茅 : Piano Quintets & Piano Quartets.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 4.

  • 罢谤盲诲

    Maccrimmon's Lament

    Singer: Jeannie Robertson.
    • Folk Songs & Words of Protest, Vol. 1.
    • Supreme Media.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Sun 30 Mar 2025 12:00
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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