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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 ...
And yet the concerto has outlived innumerable styles and eras, because its basic asymmetry — one or several soloists front and center; orchestra fanning out behind — adapts to any cultural moment and ...
This recital presented the complete surviving piano music of Janáček (pictured below), for the most part a miscellany of miniature character pieces, some quirky, others more profound. Adès performed ...
Thomas Adès is that rarest of artistic creatures: the complete musician. A composer-pianist-conductor, he represents a versatility that was once the norm. Mozart led his own piano concertos from the ...
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 ...
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, ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook By David Allen and Zachary Woolfe The attention of classical music in America on Thursday was divided between the opposite coasts.
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Thomas Adès and Nico Muhly are two major composers with much in common. By his early 20s, Adès, who is now 48, had already been dubbed in his native England the next Benjamin Britten. Muhly, a decade ...
Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra landed a Grammy nomination Friday for best orchestral performance. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) The Los Angeles Philharmonic led ...