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Dundonnell
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« Reply #15 on: March 18, 2013, 06:44:24 pm » |
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We know what Boulez thought of many composers both of the past and amongst his contemporaries. The treatment of Hans Werner Henze by Boulez and his fellow members of the Darmstadt school in the early 1950s is notorious and was utterly disgraceful. It was one reason(there were of course others) why Henze left Germany.
What seems to me interesting is that Boulez-as he got older-increasingly widened his conducting repertoire. It is not so very long ago that I bought a Boulez recording of the Bruckner 8th symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic, recorded at the International Bruckner Festival at St. Florian. Now....I would wager that if someone had said to Boulez in, say 1953, that one day he would be conducting a Bruckner symphony he would have snorted in disbelief and derision.
Age brings-or should do ;D-increasing wisdom. Has Boulez a radically different opinion today of those composers he openly despised as a young man ???
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