Pierre Boulez: The Complete Music for Solo Piano <br> Marc Ponthus, piano <br> BRIDGE 9456A/BPierre Boulez's solo keyboard output remains heavily weighted in favor of the most radical, intransigent phase of his developmenthis twentiesalthough it is no coincidence that these were also his most productive, self assured years as a composer. As Charles Rosen, one of Boulezs important early interpreters, observed, the piano is a traditional outlet for experimentation: it allows an immediate control over the musical idea, one that often indicates

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