Thomas Adès and friends shine at Milton Court

By Paul Kilbey, 07 November 2013

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Reviewed at Guildhall School of Music & Drama: Milton Court Concert Hall, London on 5 November 2013

Britten, Suite for violin and piano, Op.6

Barry, Low

Adès, Lieux retrouvés

Stravinsky, L'Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale): Suite

Adès, Catch

Adès, Court Studies from The Tempest

Thomas Adès, Piano

Anthony Marwood, Violin

Matthew Hunt, Clarinet

Louise Hopkins, Cello

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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Paul Kilbey

Paul was Reviews Editor at Bachtrack from 2012 to February 2014. He has written on music and culture for publications including Culture Wars, the Huffington Post, the Independent and the Guardian. He holds BA and MPhil degrees in music from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and is particularly passionate about contemporary music of all types. His website is here.