The British composer Thomas Adès is back on the Boston Symphony Orchestra podium this week, leading his own music, yes, but also giving the fall schedule a healthy shot of curatorial imagination. The ...
The presiding artistic mind was that of Thomas Adès, featuring both as conductor and composer. His passion for the music he had chosen shone through, overcoming the rough-and-readiness of his baton ...
The operatic concert paraphrase is one of the most time-bound of musical genres. It's almost exclusively an artifact of the 19th century, an era when keyboard wizards were rife, operas were popular ...
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The programme was very nicely put together: the first half pitting Adès’s take on The Tempest against Sibelius’s, and the second, Adès’s take on Dante against Tchaikovsky (in the form of the fantasy ...
Thomas Adès' operatic treatment of "The Tempest," which premiered in London in 2004 and at the Santa Fe Opera two years later, finds the English composer working at a peak of fecundity and muscular ...
Thomas Adès has had years to complete some of his opera or concerto assignments. With "Colette," he'd hear the film needed a major piece of music next week. One of England’s most distinguished concert ...