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 ...

The operatic concert paraphrase is one of the most time-bound of musical genres. It's almost exclusively an artifact of the 19th century, an era when keyboard wizards were rife, operas were popular ...

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 ...

A moving collection of vocal works, including world premiere recordings of music by the eminent Hungarian composer Gyorgy ...

There was a splendid, soul-fulfilling performance of Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” Symphony on the Aspen Music Festival’s opening weekend, but dramatic pieces by the celebrated British composer Thomas ...

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Program: Thomas Adès' "Shanty — Over the Sea," Mozart's Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola and Gustav Holst's "The Planets." We began with a new composition by Thomas Adès, an English composer ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Composer/conductor/pianist Thomas Adès – no longer the wunderkind of ...

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 ...

Among contemporary composers, 45-year-old Thomas Adès has had, more than most of his contemporaries, an impressive number of his works performed and even repeated in Boston — by the Boston Symphony ...

Sometimes old recipes, newly tweaked, can yield astonishing results. Consider the concerto: It might be a 400-year-old formula, calling for a soloist to perform with — and often battle against — an ...