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Thomas Adès returns to the LSO podium with a spectacular program highlighting with the London premiere of Aquifer Thomas Adès conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. © Mark Allan Returning to the podium at the Barbican Centre, Thomas Adès conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in a characteristically specta…

Looking back at Thomas Adès and London Symphony Orchestra performing Adès Aquifer (2023-24), Sibelius Symphony No. 3 (1904-07), Ruders Paganini Variations (1999-2000) (feat. Sean Shibe) and Alex Paxton World Builder, Creature (2024)
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Truly!!!

Tonight!! Harmonium with John Adams conducting the Hallé and Hallé Choir - will be epic!
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Jeesus Kristus (erotuksena Jeesus Siirakista) tätä ai(kaa). 🙃

That’s the sprit!

Me too! Just arrived in Manchester yesterday evening, first rehearsal at 10.30 today. See you at some point!

Harmonielehre to die for – Rattle and Berlin Phil on the John Adams classic Sir Simon Rattle conducting Harmonielehre (1984-85) with Berliner Philharmoniker. © Bettina Stöss Some performances are simply stuff of legends. One of these rare occasions came to pass at the Phil…

Harmonielehre to die for - Rattle and Berlin Phil on the John Adams classic

”It was Adams’s 40-minute symphony-but-name that blew the roof off at Philharmone. In fact, the crowd went wild already after the first movement.”

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Intriguing 20th century tableaux with Kirill Gerstein and the Gewandhausorchester under David Robertson Pianist Kirill Gerstein and conductor David Robertson onstage with the Gewandhausorchester after their performance of Maurice Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand (1929-31). © Jari Kallio Condu…

Looking back at last week’s formidable concert with Kirill Gerstein and Gewandhausorchester under David Robertson, primed by Stravinsky and Ravel double-bill, combined with two contrasting works from 1960, Pärt’s Nekrolog and Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from ”West Side Story”.
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That Ozawa box sounds intriguing - and expa/ensvive…

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I can imagine! I just re-watched the Met video the other day. I put it on just to check one or two things in the first act opening, but I couldn’t press stop and enjoyed the whole thing from start to finish.

That is so true! And yes, it IS the top symphony of our time. The nice thing about growing older is to get to see things becoming classics. Harmonielehre was premiered on my 12th birthday, and it is indeed one of the (few) symphony-scale pieces that have really made it to the repertoire.

Looking forward to launching my weekend with the most stunning soloist entry (and orchestral build-up) in the repertoire - performed tonight by Kirill Gerstein and the Gewandhausorchester under David Robertson! 💙❤️

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One of the (many) things I love about Leipzig is that your hotel room view is also one of J.S. Bach’s offices.
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Having loved and listened to Sir Simon Rattle’s @thecbso.bsky.social recording of John Adams’s astounding symphony-but-name Harmonielehre (1985) for over 30 years, I can’t wait to FINALLY hear him conduct it live with the Berlin Phil on Saturday!!
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Mighty Finnish premiere of Steingrímur Rohloff’s Horn Concerto by Stefan Dohr and Tampere Philharmonic under Matthew Halls Stefan Dohr performing Steingrímur Rohloff’s Horn Concerto (2024) with the Tampere Philharmonic and Matthew Halls. © Liisa Mäkinen Putting together an intriguing Friday evening setlist, the Tampere…

Reporting from the Finnish premiere of Steingrímur Rohloff’s Horn Concerto (2024) with Stefan Dohr and the Tampere Philharmonic under Matthew Halls.
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I’ve heard the Suite in concert once, in Leipzig, in the fall of 2023, with Pekka Kuusisto and the composer. Fond memories of that one.

Thank you, Bruce! I hope I did my homework properly.

Re: Tetzlaff, that might be the case, unfortunately.

Album review: a pristine pocket-sized reimagination of Adès’s The Tempest from Christian Tetzlaff and Kirill Gerstein Alongside their resounding stage success, the three operas of Thomas Adès have also proven themselves as perennial sources of concertante adaptations. Regarding The Tempest (2003-04), its first con…

Album review: a pristine pocket-sized reimagination of Adès’s The Tempest from Tetzlaff and Gerstein

”Rarely does one become so mesmerized, obsessed even by a documented musical performance than listening to this piece of treasure elaborately caught on microphones.”
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Happy 89 Steve Reich!!! 🫶🏼

[pictured, one of the best pieces on the planet]

Composing for Yuja Wang – Magnus Lindberg on his new piano concerto Magnus Lindberg photographed by © Philip Gatward Today marks the world premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s Piano Concerto No. 3 (2020-22). Given by Yuja Wang, the concerto’s dedicatee, and the San Franci…

Magnus Lindberg’s Piano Concerto No. 3 gets its 🇫🇮 premiere tonight with Olli Mustonen, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Dima Slobodeniouk. Here’s the composer discussing the piece ahead of the 2022 San Francisco world premiere.
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Returning to Lahti, John Adams introduces Frenzy and Tumblebird Contrails John Adams rehearsing Frenzy: a short symphony (2023) with the Lahti Symphony. © Jari Kallio Returning to conduct the Lahti Symphony after his 2021 podium debut with the orchestra, John Adams took …

Returning to Lahti, John Adams introduces Frenzy and Tumblebird Contrails

Along with the invigorating Adams and Gabriella Smith 🇫🇮 premieres, Debussy’s pristine La Mer and Première Rhapsodie were heard with the Lahti Symphony and co-principal clarinet Nora Niskanen.
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Gabriella Smith’s Breathing Forests and Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony soar in Helsinki Pekka Kuusisto, Gabriella Smith and James McVinnie onstage with the Helsinki Philharmonic after the Finnish premiere of Breathing Forests. © Jari Kallio The Helsinki Music Centre organ was put to g…

Gabriella Smith’s Breathing Forests and Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony soar in Helsinki

Stellar Finnish premiere of Smith’s astounding organ concerto with James McVinnie, the Helsinki Philharmonic and Pekka Kuusisto.
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After the Fall takes Gothenburg – John Adams and Víkingur Ólafsson join the GSO John Adams on the podium at Göteborgs Konserthus. © Gothenburg Symphony/Thom Estifanos. Making his debut with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, John Adams led the ensemble in a splendi…

After the Fall takes Gothenburg - John Adams and Víkingur Ólafsson join Göteborgs Symfoniker

A Swedish premiere to die for, the new Adams concerto was heard in good company of The Chairman Dances, Stravinsky Symphonies of Winds & Debussy Ibéria.
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From Paris to Salzburg with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Baroque Ensemble Fab Four at Café Barock - an afternoon well spent in great company. Splendid playlist featuring noble tombeaux and absolute bangers alike. ☕️🎶
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Off to Gothenburg for my 3rd live encounter with John Adams’s ’After the Fall’ (2024) featuring its dedicatee Víkingur Ólafsson as soloist, joined by the Gothenburg Symphony under the composer!
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Pitäisipä katsoa uudelleen - muistot lapsuusvuosilta alkavat olla hieman hämäriä joskin erittäin myönteisiä.

Lindberg’s Serenades soar with the Helsinki Philharmonic under Saraste Magnus Lindberg onstage with Jukka-Pekka Saraste and the Helsinki Philharmonic. © Jari Kallio Auguring their second program of the season, the Helsinki Philharmonic and Chief Conductor Jukka-Pekka …

Magnus Lindberg’s Serenades (2020) soar with the Helsinki Philharmonic under Jukka-Pekka Saraste.

One of the composer’s finest orchestral scores, heard alongside Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta & Rachmaninoff PC 1.
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Celebrating the joy of climate solutions with music – interview with Gabriella Smith Composer Gabriella Smith on her home ground in Seattle. © Erik Petersen Among the composers of our time, Gabriella Smith is one of those special musical voices, whose intricate sounding realms bear…

Ahead of the 🇫🇮 premieres of her Breathing Forests (2021/2023) and Tumblebird Contrails (2014), an interview with Gabriella Smith.
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Studies of electronics, space and poetry – Boulez and Stroppa premieres with Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra David Robertson conducting LFCO in the world premiere of the reconstructed version of Pierre Boulez’s Poèsie pour pouvoir (1958) at Lucerne Festival © Manuela Jans / Lucerne Festival The Pier…

Reporting from Lucerne Festival’s Boulez centennial celebrations, highlighting with Poèsie pour pouvoir (1958) IRCAM reconstruction premiered by LFCO under David Robertson & Molly Turner AND Marco Stroppa’s Come Play with Me (2016-2025)for solo-electronics and orchestra.
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