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Boulez at 80

Name: Boulez at 80
Director: David Stevens
Genre: Music, Documentary, TV Movie
Released: 2005-11-12
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 0
Cast: Pierre Boulez, Charles Hazlewood, Peter Maxwell Davies, Elizabeth Atherton

Release Date: November 12, 2005

Genre: Music, Documentary, TV Movie

Duration: 1h 59m

Director: David Stevens

Cast: Pierre Boulez, Charles Hazlewood, Peter Maxwell Davies, Elizabeth Atherton

Storyline

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.