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Works Summary

Conductor

• Pierre Boulez

Ensembles

• Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra members

Composer

• Edgard Varèse (1885 - 1965)

Remarks:

"Pierre Boulez's single disc [of the music of Varese] concentrates on the two orchestral works that Varese wrote in the years after he emigrated to the United States in 1915, 'Ameriques' and 'Arcana.' Boulez is totally in his element in music like this, observing every teeming detail, controlling the massive up-wellings of sound with maximum assurance, and in the Chicago Symphony he has an orchestra that has all the virtuosity and panache to deliver it at maximum voltage." ***** BBC
 

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Notes:

This selection won the 2001 Grammy Award for "Best Orchestral Performance" and was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for "Best Classical Album."

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Edgard Varèse (1885 - 1965) : Amériques

• Conductor: Pierre Boulez
• Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 25 min. 12 sec.
• Period Time: 20th Century
• Written: ?1918-21
• Studio/Live: Studio

Edgard Varèse (1885 - 1965) : Arcana

• Conductor: Pierre Boulez
• Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 19 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: 20th Century
• Written: 1925-1927
• Studio/Live: Studio

Edgard Varèse (1885 - 1965) : Déserts

• Conductor: Pierre Boulez
• Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 17 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: 20th Century
• Written: ?1950-54
• Studio/Live: Studio

Edgard Varèse (1885 - 1965) : Ionisation

• Conductor: Pierre Boulez
• Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra members
• Running Time: 5 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: 20th Century
• Written: 1929-1931
• Studio/Live: Studio

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