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 ...
The presiding artistic mind was that of Thomas Adès, featuring both as conductor and composer. His passion for the music he had chosen shone through, overcoming the rough-and-readiness of his baton ...
Thomas Adès, one of the BSO’s most frequent collaborators in the past decade, is a rare triple threat of classical music. He composes, he conducts, he plays the piano with collaborators including ...
Three major cycles form the basis of Janáček’s piano catalogue, Along an Overgrown Path, the Piano Sonata and In the Mists. These were spaced out with a scant ephemera of four rarely heard miniatures, ...