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Where’s Boulez? On Naxos

Where’s Boulez? On Naxos

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

Pierre Boulez/Alfred Schnittke: Piano works (Naxos/BIS)

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It’s a mark of how far Naxos have come under new ownership that a label which once churned out the complete waltzes of Johann Strauss now gives us piano works by the ultra-serious Pierre Boulez. Also under changed management, the Swedish label BIS continues its three-decade exploration of the Russian outcast, Alfred Schnittke. The results are… mixed….

Read on here.

En francais ici.

In The Critic here.

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