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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2025 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season - Prom 8: Boulez and Berio – 20th-Century Giants
Performance Date23 July 2025
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time22:15
Main PerformersSarah Aristidou - soprano,
Jerome Comte - clarinet,
Lucas Ounissi - trombone,
IRCAM - live electronics
Orchestra or BandEnsemble intercontemporain
ConductorsPierre Bleuse
Set List'Sequenza V', 'Berio,
'Dialogue de l’ombre double', Boulez,
'Recital I (for Cathy)', Berio
Performance NotesThis season we celebrate the careers of 20th-century game-changers Pierre Boulez and Luciano Berio, whose inventive, iconoclastic legacies continue to echo through the sounds, styles and techniques of today.

The Ensemble intercontemporain – founded by Boulez in 1976 – and Pierre Bleuse celebrate the pair in a concert full of sonic theatre. Boulez’s tour de force for clarinet, the shadow-duet Dialogue de l’ombre double, meets Berio’s allusive, tragicomic music-drama Recital I, which remixes opera’s history via the composer’s own distinctive imagination.

Tragicomedy also streaks through Berio’s Sequenza V, which prompts a solo trombonist to explore a plethora of unlikely playing (and vocal) techniques.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2025/30),
Programme (RAHE/1/2025/
Ticket Prices£9 - £115 (Promming tickets £8)
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work13506BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season72
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/24425Aristidou; Sarah (1991); French soprano
DS/UK/24426Comte; Jerome (fl. 2020s); French clarinet player
DS/UK/24427Ounissi; Lucas (fl. 2020s); French trombonist
DS/UK/24428IRCAM (fl. 1980s)
DS/UK/11624The Ensemble InterContemporain (EIC); 1976-; French chamber orchestra
DS/UK/24429Bleuse; Pierre (6 November 1977); French violinist and conductor
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