Boulez at 80

  • November 2005
  • 1hr

    59mins

  • Music
  • Documentary
  • TV Movie
  • Directed by

    Oliver MacFarlane,

    David Stevens,

    Starring

    Pierre Boulez,

    Charles Hazlewood,

    Elizabeth Atherton,

    Pierre Boulez conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a special concert from the Barbican, as part of the composer's 80th birthday celebrations. The programme contains two compositions by Debussy; Jeux and Trois ballades de Villon, as well as Daphnis et Chloé by Ravel, featuring soprano Elizabeth Atherton as soloist.Presenter Charles Hazlewood interviews Boulez and discusses the concert with guest Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.