Thomas Adès au cœur de la musique hongroise à la Fondation Vuitton

Thomas Adès

By Chloë Rouge, 13 November 2024

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“il est évident que Thomas Adès a saisi l’essence de la musique vocale hongroise”

Reviewed at Auditorium de la Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris on 12 November 2024

Haydn, String Quartet no. 26 in G minor, Op.20 no.3, Hob III:33

Bartók, Magyar népdalok (Hungarian folksongs for voice and piano)

Leith, A different 'Fantasie from Suite no. 5 in G minor' (after Locke)

Kurtág, S.K. Remembrance Noise, pour voix et violon

Adès, Növények for mezzo-soprano and piano sextet (création française)

Katalin Karolyi, Mezzo-soprano

Graham Mitchell, Double Bass

Ruisi Quartet

Thomas Adès, Piano

Shock, spectacle and endurance: Yuja Wang and Thomas Adès at full tilt

Laurence Vittes, 8th February

If Prokofiev’s original intention in his Second Piano Concerto was shock and awe, Yuja Wang gives exactly the right performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

***11

Thomas Adès and Yuja Wang offer contemporary works at the NY Phil

Sam Jacobson, 23rd January

Yuja Wang returns to the New York Philharmonic with Rautavaara’s dazzling First Piano Concerto in a probing program curated and conducted by Thomas Adès.

****1

Modern mayhem from Thomas Adès and the Czech Philharmonic

Frank Kuznik, 5th December

The composer and conductor celebrates Pierre Boulez's 100th birthday in fine fashion with a smart program and fervent work from both sides of the podium.

*****

Adès and the LSO compelling in Rautavaara and Sibelius

David Karlin, 23rd October

Thomas Adès and the London Symphony Orchestra make the best possible case for SIbelius' lesser played symphonies, the Fourth and Sixth and Johan Dalene turns on the romanticism in Rautavaara.

*****

From the Pacific Coast to Nordic landscapes at Tanglewood

Edward Sava-Segal, 13th July

Textures, tensions and transformations across musical perspectives imbue the Tanglewood programme Thomas Adès inherited from Esa-Pekka Salonen.

****1

Music of the Spheres: stars align for Thomas Adès’ TSO debut

Michelle Assay, 26th February

Thomas Adès serves up an astronomical programme, pairing his Piano Concerto and Paradiso with Holst’s crowd favourite, The Planets.

****1

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Chloë Rouge

Après des études d’histoire de la musique au CRR de Paris et de musicologie à l’EHESS avec pour ce sujet de recherche les compositeurs-chefs d’orchestres, Chloë Rouge devient enseignante de formation musicale au conservatoire Maurice Ravel du 13^e arrondissement de Paris. Particulièrement intéressée par la musique contemporaine et la médiation de la musique, elle commence la critique musicale pour le journal Altamusica et rédige des notes de programme pour différentes institutions (Festival de La Chaise-Dieu, Radio France). Depuis 2024, elle fait partie de la commission musique contemporaine de l’Académie Charles Cros.