Adès: In Seven Days
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THOMAS ADES
Adès: In Seven Days
Kirill Gerstein (piano) Thomas Adès (piano/conductor), Tanglewood Music Centre Orchestra
[ Myrios / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 12 June 2020
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Kirill Gerstein's decade long relationship with British composer and pianist Thomas Adès is reflected through this latest release from myrios classics. Recorded in the luxurious acoustics of the Symphony Hall in Boston, the three Mazurkas for solo piano feature alongside the world premiere recordings of Berceuse from The Exterminating Angel and the concert paraphrase on Powder Her Face for two pianos performed with the composer. Together with these works is In Seven Days for piano and orchestra which anticipated Adès's recent piano concerto written, like Berceuse, especially for Kirill. The live performance was captured in the Seiji Ozawa Hall as part of the 2018 Tanglewood Music Festival, with Adès conducting the Tanglewood Music Centre Orchestra
"For Gerstein this music, like Beethoven and Bach's has become part of his DNA, the difference being that with this living composer he can discuss details of performance…This recording makes an exhilarating hour of beauty and strangeness…Gerstein describes In Seven Days as being about the birth of the universe - but for me it's simply a triumphant cavalcade of delicately glittering and gloriously sensuous effects." BBC Music Five Stars September Choice 2020
"How often is it that a piano disc comes along consisting entirely of new music as technically exhilarating in its modern way as any disc of Chopin or Liszt? There is life in the virtuoso concert pianist yet...Gerstein is a virtuoso and his brilliance pays dividends here...The story of the seven days of creation has never been told in music of more earth-shaking exuberance." Financial Times
"[In Seven Days] is, I would argue, Adès's masterpiece: the fullest expression to date of his schematic musical mind...The music's concurrent ability to evoke the seven chapters of creation...is the layer that makes this the work of a genius…The best among the piano-only works is the set of three Mazurkas, whose preordained frameworks again prompt Adès to greater levels of invention." Gramophone
International Classical Music Awards 2021 Winner - Contemporary
Tracks:
Powder Her Face: Concert Paraphrase
Berceuse (from The Exterminating Angel)
Mazurkas for Piano, Op. 27
In Seven Days
