Nikolai Obukhov
Révélation

Pierre Boulez
Piano Sonata No. 1

George Benjamin
Shadowlines for Piano

INTERMISSION

George Benjamin
New Work for Piano

Maurice Ravel
Le Tombeau de Couperin for Piano

When experiencing Pierre Boulez’s First Piano Sonata, one should leave all listening habits behind and become a blank page, as the composer himself intended to be – says Pierre-Laurent Aimard, long considered one of the most erudite performers of Boulez’s music. He presents this radically unconventional 1946 work together with George Benjamin’s Shadowlines and a new piece for piano duet, for which he is joined by the composer.