In the Orbit of Pierre Boulez
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth
August 16, 16:00
Khlibnya
In the spring of 2025, the world marks the centenary of the birth of the prominent French composer, conductor, musical figure, and educator Pierre Boulez — one of the leading voices of the postwar European avant-garde as early as the 1950s. His creative, performing, and organizational contributions to the development and popularization of contemporary classical music are truly remarkable.
In his new anniversary program In the Orbit of Pierre Boulez, pianist Yevhen Hromov offers a meticulously curated exploration. On one hand, the program traces Boulez’s artistic origins, influences, and performance preferences; on the other, it highlights the direct impact of his compositional legacy on younger, progressively minded colleagues — including Ukrainian composers.

Concert Program
Claude Debussy (1862–1918)D’un cahier d’esquisses (“From a Sketchbook”)
CD 112; L 99 (1903–1904)
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
II. Le Gibet (“The Gibbet”) — dedicated to Jean Marnold
from the piano suite Gaspard de la nuit (1908)
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Piano-Rag-Music
(1919) — dedicated to Arthur Rubinstein
Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
VII. Sostenuto, rubato — In Memory of Claude Debussy
VIII. Allegro
from Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs
Op. 20; Sz. 74; BB 83 (1920)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
Klavierstück, Op. 33a (1928–1929)
André Jolivet (1905–1974)
III. La Princesse de Bali (“The Princess of Bali”) — dedicated to Louise Varèse
from the suite Mana (1935)
Anton von Webern (1883–1945)
Sehr mäßig (“Very moderate”)
Sehr schnell (“Very fast”)
Ruhig fließend (“Calm, flowing”)
from Variationen, Op. 27 (1935–1936)
Pierre Boulez (1925–2016)
Douze Notations pour piano (“Twelve Notations for Piano”)
(1945) — [selections]
Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
II. Mode de durées et d’intensités (“Mode of Durations and Intensities”)
from Quatre études de rythme (“Four Studies in Rhythm”)
(Darmstadt, 1949; complete cycle: 1949–1950)
Pierre Boulez (1925–2016)
Formant 2 Trop (“Trop”)
from Troisième Sonate (“Third Sonata”) (1955–1957, rev. 1963)
[Glossa – Texte – Parenthèses – Commentaire]
*Valentyn Sylvestrov (1937)
Elegy (1967) — dedicated to Alexei Lyubimov
Volodymyr Zahortsev (1944–2010)
Rhythms (1967) — dedicated to Vitaliy Hodziatsky
Pierre Boulez (1925–2016)
Incises (“Incisions”) (1994)
Une page d’éphéméride (“A Page from a Calendar”) (2005)
Fragment d’esquisse (“Sketch Fragment”) — dedicated to Jean-Marie Leno (1987)*Ukrainian premiere

Yevhen Hromov
piano