Thomas Adès thinks big. Devotees of the composer, conductor, and pianist can hardly complain about his busy public profile. Still, for fans of his large-scale works, hell is the relative rarity of ...
When a composer as brilliant as Thomas Adès takes to the conductor’s podium you can be sure of something special. The conventional conductor’s poise and grace are of no interest to him; he wants to ...
The 18th-century French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau was a master of the fête galante, a genre of painting that depicts small and elegant gatherings in outdoor settings. For British composer and ...
Who’s the most successful Generation X composer? I vote for Thomas Adès. The 52-year-old Englishman’s operas, orchestral and chamber works please audiences as well as picky music critics. Thank the La ...
Thomas Adès’s first encounter with Anne-Sophie Mutter was in 2016, when Adès was conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in a program that featured two of his own works, plus the Brahms Violin ...
He played piano masterfully and captivated us with his compositions. Thomas Adès has left SummerFest, but the memory of his residency remains. There was perhaps no more impressive display of his ...
Thursday night in Symphony Hall, the composer led works by Ravel and Berg as well as his own Piano Concerto, with soloist Kirill Gerstein In recent years at the BSO, the programs curated and led by ...
On the eve of a sprawling new festival, John Adams, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel and others recount how the state reinvigorated classical music. By Joshua Barone The premiere recording of Thomas ...
Thomas Adès, who conducts the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra this week, is often playing a friendly game of tug of war in his own head. Sometimes the pianist in him snags the spotlight, sometimes the ...
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