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Prom 39: Members of West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Pierre Boulez

Written during the First World War, 'to be read, played and danced', L'histoire du soldat ('The Soldier's Tale') presents the Faustian tale of a soldier who is tricked by the Devil into trading his fiddle for a book containing the secret of wealth.

Boulez's ... explosante-fixe ... - from which Mémoriale is derived - was written to commemorate the death of Stravinsky in 1971. The Mémoriale realisation (1985) was prompted by the death of Lawrence Beauregard, flautist of Boulez's Ensemble Intercontemporain.

  • Pierre Boulez Mémoriale (... explosante-fixe ... Originel) (6mins)
  • Stravinsky L'histoire du soldat (60 mins)

There will be no interval

Patrice Chéreau narrator
Members of West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim conductor

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