Pierre Boulez - Domaines {for clarinet solo} (Audio + Score)

Pierre Boulez - Domaines, for clarinet solo (1968)

Clarinet - Roger Heaton

Cahier A Original - 0:00
Cahier E Original - 0:49
Cahier C Original - 1:50
Cahier B Original - 2:50
Cahier D Original - 4:19
Cahier F Original - 5:20
Cahier F Miroir - 7:44
Cahier D Miroir - 10:12
Cahier B Miroir - 11:18
Cahier C Miroir - 13:02
Cahier E Miroir - 14:15
Cahier A Miroir - 15:18

Boulez’s Domaines (Areas/Domains), composed during an extended period between 1959 and 1968, was written for clarinet alone. Boulez turned it into a kind of concerto later by adding six discrete ensembles of one to six players while retaining the original solo part. Domaines follows on from the Third Piano Sonata of 1957 and the large-scale work for soprano and orchestra Pli selon pli (Fold by Fold), which he worked on between 1957 and 1962. There are close links between the three pieces in terms of expressive melodic material, for example similarities between clarinet and vocal writing, and the quasi-aleatoric nature of the notation - the actual layout on the page of fragments of music.

One interesting note to make, is the similarities between Domaines and Boulez's other work involving a solo clarinet: Dialogue de l'ombre double (1985). The clearest example comes in one the first sections heard in this recording. This section of the original Cahier A, 0:14, is identical (in sound) to the entry of the shadow clarinet in Transition I à II in Dialogue:    • Pierre Boulez - Dialogue de l'ombre d...  

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