Many orchestral concerts leaven two or three established classics with something new or unusual. The LSO reversed that ...

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 ...

Multimedia creations are a fine thing in their way, but when one strain amounts to a work of brilliance all on its own, everything else tends to get overshadowed. Such is the case with "Polaris," an ...

When SummerFest Music Director Inon Barnatan this year invited one of the world’s most versatile and in-demand composers — who’s also a world-touring conductor and dynamic pianist — Barnatan wanted to ...

International fame just doesn’t happen to many classical composers. But when it does, it can strike like a runaway train. Consider Thomas Adès. Hailed in his 20s as the heir to Benjamin Britten and ...

“If a hoary critic seems to be writing in the vein of a modern publicist,” Andrew Porter wrote in the program notes to an early recording of Thomas Ades’ music, it is because “young Ades, like Purcell ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Composer Thomas Ades has scored the pounding beat of a dance club for orchestra, got a soprano to sing a breathtaking 17 high E's in her first minute onstage and ended a concerto by ...

On the other hand, it did offer some fervent and rather unusual orchestral playing. So there's that. The connection between Mendelssohn - with his sleek technical proficiency and ingratiating charisma ...

The most unusual writing in the opera is assigned to the spirit Ariel, sung by a coloratura soprano at the highest elevation. Ades keeps the vocal lines so far in the heavens that a listener might ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Joshua Barone After 250 years or so, the piano concerto has some life in it yet. This week alone, two piano concertos by two eminent composers, ...

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