Tevot

An acclaimed conductor and pianist as well as a composer, Thomas Adès has outgrown his status as the wunderkind of the British scene and become one of the most imposing figures in contemporary music. For his LSO Live debut, he conducts all of his seminal ‘Trilogy’ works - Asyla, Tevot & Polaris - pieces that not only occupy a special place in his output, but in modern classical music as a whole. DSD Recording.

An acclaimed conductor and pianist as well as a composer, Thomas Adès has outgrown his status as the wunderkind of the British scene and become one of the most imposing figures in contemporary music. For his LSO Live debut, he conducts all of his seminal "Trilogy" works - Asyla, Tevot and Polaris - pieces that not only occupy a special place in his output, but in modern classical music as a whole. Recorded in 2016 during his first LSO "composer Focus", this is the first time all three works have been presented together on one album, offering a unique chance to hear th emusical development of one of the world's foremost composers.

An acclaimed conductor and pianist as well as a composer, Thomas Adès is among today's greatest musicians. For his LSO Live debut, he conducts all of his seminal 'Trilogy' works - Asyla, Polaris and Tevot - pieces that not only occupy a special place in his output, but in modern classical music as a whole. Recorded in 2016 during his first LSO 'Composer Focus', this is the first time all three works have been presented together on one album, offering a unique chance to hear the musical development of one of the world's foremost contemporary composers.

There is little doubt that Thomas Adès (* 1971) is the most famous British composer of his generation. Barely twenty-two years old, he was already composer-in-residence of the Hallé Orchestra of Manchester, and when Simon Rattle took over the direction of the Berlin Philharmonic he registered the present 1997 Asyla at his inauguration concert! For this album recorded in concert in 2016, it is Adès himself who directs the London Symphony Orchestra in an anthology of his orchestral works; In Asyla, we note the presence of two pianos tuned to the quarter-tone and a low oboe, a rarity, for the second movement, which seems to refer as much to Ives as to Bach; While the third movement has acquired a status of celebrity since it describes there a sort of "atmosphere of a huge night club full of dancers and drug addicts".

Thomas Adès was born in London in 1971. His compositions include two operas, Powder Her Face (Cheltenham Festival/Almeida Theatre, London, 1995), and The Tempest (Royal Opera, Covent Garden, 2004). Other orchestral works include Asyla (CBSO, 1997), Tevot (Berlin Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall, 2007), Polaris (New World Symphony, Miami 2011), Violin Concerto Concentric Paths (Berliner Festspiele and London Proms, 2005), In Seven Days (Piano concerto with moving image - LA Philharmonic and RFH London 2008), and Totentanz for mezzo-soprano, baritone and orchestra (London Proms, 2013).