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After Beethoven鈥檚 Quintet for piano and winds, written soon after his arrival in Vienna, Fran莽ois-Xavier Roth directs Pierre Boulez's breakthrough piece, Le marteau sans ma卯tre (鈥楾he Hammer without a Master鈥�), arguably the single most influential composition of the 1950s. By interlocking settings of three poems by the Surrealist poet Ren茅 Char with commentaries from specific sub-groups of its ensemble, Boulez established a new kind of rapport between text and music through unsuspected continuities of timbre 鈥� a labyrinth of exotic sound at once tightly organised and delirious.

There will be no interval

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Unfortunately Pierre Boulez has had to withdraw from this Prom. We are grateful to Fran莽ois-Xavier Roth for appearing in his place.