White Angel - from Michael Cunningham's novel A Home at the End of the World, read by James Naughton at Symphony Space, New York City.

WHITE ANGEL - MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM - JAMES NAUGHTON READER

Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring.  Recorded on Pianola ca. 1920.  Aeolian Instrument.

STRAVINSKY - THE RITE OF SPRING - PART 1 - REC. 1920

Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata 3rd Mvmt - Andante. Mp3

Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata 1st Mvmt - Lento - Allegro Moderato. Mp3

Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951): Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor. Op. 50  Nikolai Medter, piano, Philharmonia Orc., Issay Dobrowen, cond.  Recorded May 4-9, 1947

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MEDTNER PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 - 2nd Movement

MEDTNER PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 - 1st Movement

Schoenberg: Piano Music Complete (rec. 1957)

4 SCHOENBERG - 6 KLEINE KLAVIERSTUECKE Op. 19

Berio: Folk Songs - for mezzo soprano and orchestra (1964/1973) Cathy Berberian, ms., Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Luciano Berio, conductor. 
Live Performance - Palazzo del Congressi, Lugano, June 3, 1976

BERIO - FOLK SONGS - Cathy Berberian, ms., Luciano Berio, cond.

BOULEZ - LIVRE MVMT 1a

1 BOULEZ - ANTHEMES - FOR SOLO VIOLIN 1991 rec. 1993

Webern: Variations for Piano, Op. 27.  German Premiere, July 31, 1948.  Peter Stadlen, Piano.  (Stadlen gave the world premiere and was coached by Webern.)

WEBERN - VARIATIONS FOR PIANO OP 27 - STADLEN  - GERMAN PREMIERE 31 JULY 1948

Boulez: cummings ist der dichter.  Schola Cantorum Stuttgart, Members of the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Stuttgart, Pierre Boulez, conductor.  Recording made on Sept. 24, 1970, the day before it's world premiere in Ulm Germany

BOULEZ - cummings ist der dichter - rec. prior to premiere 9-24-1970 - Pierre Boulez, cond.

01 - Avant l'Artisanat furieux

07 - Apres l'Artisanat furieux

02 - Commentaire I de Bourreaux de solitude

Pierre Boulez: Sonatine for Flute and Piano.  Severino Gazzelloni, flute, Frederick Rzewski, Piano.  rec. ca. 1968

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BOULEZ - DOMAINES - PART 1

BOULEZ - DOMAINES - PART 2

01 - BOULEZ - LE SOLEIL DES EAUX - Complainte du Lezard amoreux

02 - BOULEZ - LE SOLEIL DES EAUX - La Sorgue

Mahler: Ging heut' morgens ubers Feld (from Songs of a Wayfarer).  Gustav Mahler, piano, recorded in on November 9, 1905 at the M. Welte & Sons studios in Leipzig.

Mahler - Ging heut' morgens ubers Feld - Gustav Mahler, piano 1905

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Boulez - Poesie pour pouvoir (1958).  Southwest Radio Orchestra, Hans Rosbaud and Pierre Boulez, conductors.  Michel Bouquet, voice on tape  World Premiere at Donaueschingen- October 1958

BOULEZ - POESIE POUR POUVOIR - 1958

Singer performance of what the announcer describes as the SHOW-PAN Share-zo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20, played by the unforgettable Cindy Elizondo

CHOPIN - SCHERZO I Bb MINOR - CINDY ELIZONDO - MISS GULF COAST 2000

Schoenberg - Piano Concerto, Op. 42.  Maurizio Pollini, piano, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, conductor.  Live Performance September 16, 2004.

14 Schoenberg - Piano Concerto - IV - Pollini

13 Schoenberg - Piano Concerto - III - Pollini

12 Schoenberg - Piano Concerto - II - Pollini

11 Schoenberg - Piano Concerto - I - Pollini

03 Bruckner - Symphony No. 9 - 3.WAV

02 Bruckner - Symphony No. 9 - 2.WAV

Bartok - Miraculous Mandarin - Complete.  Berlin Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez, Live Performance on March 19, 2004

BARTOK - MIRACULOUS MANDARIN - BERLIN PHIL, BOULEZ - 2004 - 03 - 19

This interview was an intermission feature of a May 13, 1984 Concert that Pierre Boulez conducted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.  The concert included Carters Symphony of Three Orchestras, which Carter dedicated to Boulez and the NY Philharmonic, Boulez' Improvisations sur Mallarme I-111, from Pli Selon Pli, and Debussy's La Mer

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MAHLER - SYMPHONY NO 6 - 4th Movement

MAHLER - SYMPHONY NO 6 - 1st Movement

Every one of us who came from small town America to New York City on the cusp of adulthood ready to start their life has a story to tell. I have mine.  But this story, about David Sedaris' experience coming to NYC during the Christmas season to have a life as a writer, is one of my favorites.  It's certainly one of the funniest.  Although years later I had read a number of collections of his stories and attended one of Sedaris' readings in person, this was my first encounter.  I heard the first broadcast of this quite by accident one morning on NPR.  The following year, I was ready to record it off the air when it was rebroadcast.  This story was what began his public career and for many years it was yet another tradition on NPR.  Sedaris captures so much of what it was like to find oneself in New York for the first time and be in the midst of all those things you grew up reading about.

The Santa-Land Diaries by David Sedaris.  Read by the Author on NPR

Boulez - Le Visage Nuptial (Version 2 (1951-52).  Ilona Steingruber, soprano, Eva Bornemann, alto.  WDR (Radio Cologne) Symphony and Chorus, Pierre Boulez, conductor.  World Premiere.  December 4, 1957.

BOULEZ-LE VISAGE NUPTIAL (v.2)WDR Chorus, Orch.  Boulez, Cond. WP 12-4-1957

Honegger: Excerpt from Hamlet (with introduction).  Pierre Boulez, Ondes Martinot, Maurice Jarre, Timpani.  Recorded by the INA, 1948.

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BOULEZ - Pli Selon Pli 1962 version, Donaueschingen, Eva-Maria Rogner, soprano, Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, conductor, October 20, 1962 from the Donaueschingen Festival broadcast over KPFA

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Mahler: Symphony No. 8, BBC Symphony, Pierre Boulez, conductor.  Edda Moser, Linda Esther Gray, Wendi Eathorne, sops; Elizabth Connell, ms; Beradette Greevy, alto; Alberto Remedios, tenor; Siegmund Nimsgern, bar; Marius Rintzler, Bass.  BBC Singers, BBC Choral Society, Scottish National Orchestra Chorus, and the Wandsworth School Choir.

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