Le marteau sans maître

by Pierre Boulez

Le marteau sans maître cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1964
  • Label: Adès
  • Country: France
  • Length: 42:15
  • Community rating: 3.6/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Le marteau sans maître' is one of Pierre Boulez's landmark postwar modernist works, setting René Char's poetry for voice and chamber ensemble. The recording represents serialist composition as a highly controlled but coloristic musical language.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, dissonant, chamber, experimental, atonal, complex

Tracklist

  1. Le Marteau sans maître (1967 Re-edited Version): I. Avant "L'artisanat furieux" (1:26)
  2. Le Marteau sans maître (1967 Re-edited Version): II. Commentaire I de "Bourreaux de solitude" (3:41)
  3. Le Marteau sans maître (1967 Re-edited Version): III. L'artisanat furieux" (2:07)
  4. Le Marteau sans maître (1967 Re-edited Version): IV. Commentaire II de "Bourreaux de solitude" (3:06)
  5. Le Marteau sans maître (1967 Re-edited Version): V. "Bel édifice et les pressentiments" - version première (2:48)
  6. Le Marteau sans maître (1967 Re-edited Version): VI. "Bourreaux de solitude" (4:16)
  7. Le Marteau sans maître (1967 Re-edited Version): VII. Après "L'artisanat furieux" (0:52)
  8. Le Marteau sans maître (1967 Re-edited Version): VIII. Commentaire III de "Bourreaux de solitude" (4:28)
  9. Le Marteau sans maître (1967 Re-edited Version): IX. "Bel édifice et les pressentiments" - double (6:34)
  10. "Zeitmaße" for Flute, Oboe, English Horn, Clarinet and Basson, Op. 5 (1956) (1967 Re-edited Version) (12:52)

Credits

  • Pierre Boulez - primary artist, composed by, leader
  • Jeanne Deroubaix - alto vocals
  • Severino Gazzelloni - flute
  • Anton Stingl - guitar
  • Georges Van Gucht - instruments [xylorimba]
  • René Char - lyrics by [text]
  • Jean-Paul Batigne - percussion
  • Claude Ricou - vibraphone

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