I talked to Thomas Adès, one of today's most brilliant composers (and conductors, and pianists, and programmers) to get him to explain his musical universe. Did he explain? Only up to a point. But our conversations are sketches towards an understanding; their illumination, I hope, comes from how Adès answers, parries, and sometimes obfuscates the questions I ask him. Along the way, there are insights into the music he loves and loathes, especially the operas of Janacek and Wagner, aspects of Mahler's symphonies, and Brahms's and Britten's music. He also reveals his priorities as a composer and listener: the "magnetism" he hears in every note or combination of notes he plays on the piano or puts down on manuscript paper. Follow...
Thomas Adès - Tevot
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