Thomas Adès and Stravinsky
Adès conducts Stravinsky and Krausas, Gerstein plays Adès
A crazy ride full of unexpected turns, composed with Kirill Gerstein’s incredible virtuosity in mind.
Concert programme
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Veronika Krausas
Caryatids (Dutch premiere)
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Thomas Adès
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Dutch premiere)
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Thomas Adès
The Exterminating Angel Symphony
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Igor Stravinsky
Symphony in three movements
Performers
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Kirill Gerstein
piano
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Thomas Adès
conductor
About this concert
In his colourful music, the English composer–conductor Thomas Adès intertwines sounds from the past and present in a virtuoso manner. Adès gave a particularly strong first performance with the Concertgebouw Orchestra as a conductor in 2011, followed by collaborations in 2016 and 2019. Now he returns for the Dutch premiere of his own Piano Concerto, a crazy ride full of unexpected turns, composed with Kirill Gerstein’s incredible virtuosity in mind. Adès has adapted excerpts from his opera The Exterminating Angel into a symphony in which an important role is reserved for the enticing waltzes of Johann Strauss.
‘Each episode in the Symphony is linked in my imagination with a specific cinematographic impression of the war.’
Dates and tickets
About this concert
In his colourful music, the English composer–conductor Thomas Adès intertwines sounds from the past and present in a virtuoso manner. Adès gave a particularly strong first performance with the Concertgebouw Orchestra as a conductor in 2011, followed by collaborations in 2016 and 2019. Now he returns for the Dutch premiere of his own Piano Concerto, a crazy ride full of unexpected turns, composed with Kirill Gerstein’s incredible virtuosity in mind. Adès has adapted excerpts from his opera The Exterminating Angel into a symphony in which an important role is reserved for the enticing waltzes of Johann Strauss.
‘Each episode in the Symphony is linked in my imagination with a specific cinematographic impression of the war.’