Thomas Adès - Tevot

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...

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John Adams - Orchestral Music

One reason critic Alex Ross finds John Adams' music so appealing is that the composer doesn't shy away from emotion.

"The emotional thing is very important, I think," Ross says. "There's no caution there. There's no sort of intellectual jockeying for position. He just seems to just put it out there and not worry about the correctness of these sounds. They just kind of well up in him, and he's just not afraid to put them down on paper."

John Adams, The Chairman Dances Foxtrot per orchestra 1985

Francesco Ommassini Conductor

Orchestra Arena di Verona

Reg live 27.11.2011 Teatro Filarmonico Verona Italy

JOHN ADAMS - DOCTOR ATOMIC SYMPHONY - GSTAAD FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA - KRISTJAN JARVI - DIRECTOR - 2011