Exquisite Labyrinth – review

Southbank Centre, LondonThe Southbank Centre's generous, weekend-long tribute to Pierre Boulez and his music ended with a performance of his grandest orchestral achievement. The composer himself took charge of Pli Selon Pli; Barbara Hannigan was the soprano soloist, and the Ensemble InterContemporain and the ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Academy, Boulez's new-music summer school, provided the orchestra.Boulez is now 86, and this was rumoured to be the last time he's likely to conduct his five...

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