Pierre-Laurent Aimard appears at the Pierre Boulez Saal this October.

In this recital evening, Aimard – a founding member of Pierre Boulez’s Ensemble intercontemporain in Paris – performs works written for him by Ligeti, Carter, György Kurtág, George Benjamin, and Marco Stroppa.

The October 26 program – originally created for his Siemens Prize recital last year – features Ligeti’s Der Zauberlehrling (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) (Études pour piano, deuxième livre) and Entrelacs / Étude Nr. 12 (Études pour piano, deuxième livre), Carter’s Caténaires, György Kurtág’s Passio sine nomine, George Benjamin’s Shadowlines, and Marco Stroppa’s Passacaglia canonica.

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Looking over Ravel scores with Boulez, Cleveland, 2010.

Photo by Roger Mastroianni

“What was extraordinary with Boulez was his kind of morality with the music. There was a passion, a man burning for music, irresistibly, that you could feel at any second of his music making – of course, well controlled and somewhere almost behind the controller, but always there. He had a way to serve his own music and other people’s as well. This is something that I think has influenced – and I hope will continue to influence – generations.” – Pierre-Laurent Aimard on Pierre Boulez