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Compact disc

Adès conducts Adès.

Call Number

  • COMPACT DISC CLASSICAL (CEN)

Languages

The 2nd work is sung in German.

Performers

Kirill Gerstein, piano (1st wok) ; Christianne Stotijn, mezzo-soprano (2nd work) ; Mark Stone, baritone (2nd work) ; Boston Symphony Orchestra ; Thomas Adès, conductor.

Publication Information

[Berlin] : Deutsche Grammophon, [2020]

Physical Description

1 audio disc (55:58) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Summary

In March 2020, Thomas Adès, one of the most acclaimed and most frequently performed contemporary composers of our time, conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Kirill Gerstein performing the world premiere of his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Comissioned by the BSO for Kirill Gerstein the work already is becoming part of the concert repertoire worldwide.This live recording of what turned out to be a ravishing celebration of contemporary music, receiving rapturous response from audience and critics alike, is paired on the album with Adès's 2013 work Totentanz. Totentanz brings together baritone (Mark Stone) and mezzo-soprano (Christianne Stotijn) soloists with a (very) large orchestra, unfolding a dialogue between a charismatic and gleefully macabre Grim Reaper and the procession of his many victims, from Pope to Maiden and Child.

Notes

Program notes with lyrics in German and English inserted in container.

Contents

  • Concerto for piano and orchestra (2018) (21:26)
  • Totentanz = Dance of death : for mezzo-soprano, baritone and orchestra (2013) (34:32).

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