History as it is made by great composers is not a history of conservation, but of destruction - even while cherishing what is destroyed', he wrote, and in his explosive Second Piano Sonata of 1947 ...

Boulez’s shattering Second Piano Sonata, and two works for solo clarinet, performed by Tamara Stefanovich, the talented musicians of the Guildhall School and introduced by BBC Radio 3’s Kate Molleson.