Abstract
On the evidence of the last year alone, Thomas Adès's international profile, as well as his productivity, remains undiminished as he enters his sixth decade. In a concert on 6 March 2021 to mark his fiftieth birthday, he conducted Kirill Gerstein and the London Symphony Orchestra in a performance of hisIn Seven Daysand Sibelius's Sixth Symphony. Because lockdown restrictions in response to Covid-19 were still in force, the celebratory nature of the concert was necessarily muted – given behind closed doors, the players distanced – and only later uploaded to YouTube.
Highlights
New recordings were released to critical acclaim: Adès’s piano music played by Han Chen; his Totentanz, the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, In Seven Days and other piano works with Kirill Gerstein, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra; and Adès’s cycle of Beethoven symphonies with the Britten Sinfonia, coupled with works by Gerald Barry
The most high-profile UK cancellations of Adès’s music in the last 12 months were the premieres of the Angel Symphony ( The Exterminating Angel Symphony) by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Opera House’s performance of the complete ballet Dante and a season-long celebration of Adès at the Barbican
What is striking about this rollcall is the prominence given to Adès’s recent and brand-new music
Summary
What is striking about this rollcall is the prominence given to Adès’s recent and brand-new music. In a concert on 6 March 2021 to mark his fiftieth birthday, he conducted Kirill Gerstein and the London Symphony Orchestra in a performance of his In Seven Days and Sibelius’s Sixth Symphony.
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