Reviews of three superior vocal recordings, featuring baritone Gerald Finley, tenor Ian Bostridge, and baritone Thomas Meglioranza.
Thomas Ades
Classical Concert Review: Thomas Adès conducts Liszt, Adès, and Tchaikovsky
The BSO recently announced an extension to artistic partner Thomas Adès’s contract. It is lucky to have him. So are the rest of us.
Concert Review: Thomas Adès conducts Britten, Sibelius, and Adès
These BSO concerts, conducted by Thomas Adès, were the culminating event in his impressive first season.
Fuse Commentary: The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2016-17 Season Announcement
On the whole, 2016-17 is shaping up to be one of the liveliest Boston Symphony Orchestra seasons since the first years of James Levine’s tenure.
Opera Review: Thomas Adès’ “Powder Her Face” — Scandalously Relevant
Powder Her Face proved the perfect capstone to Odyssey Opera’s month-long survey of British (mostly comic) opera: biting, darkly humorous, provocative, and relevant.
Concert Review: Thomas Adés Conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra
The Boston Symphony Orchestra lacks a composer-in-residence. There are many local composers the orchestra might draw on were it to establish such a position, but few have the international reputation of someone like Thomas Adés.
Concert Review: Kirill Gerstein and the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Adés
With “In Seven Days,” Thomas Adés seems to have developed a musical language that’s complex yet not forbidding: there’s no sense that his music is weighed down by expectations of the past, even as he freely refers to archaic compositional forms.