For his 50th birthday concert with the London Symphony Orchestra, recorded in early March Thomas Adès picked a work from 2008 and some of his favourite Sibelius★★★★☆Even lockdown can have silver linings. “I’ve now almost caught up with what I was supposed to have been doing,” he reflected wryly in a pre-concert talk. “I’m afraid there’s going to be an overload of new pieces by me.” Just not right yet. For his 50th birthday concert with the London Symphony Orchestra, recorded in early March, the British composer picked a work from 2008 — his piano concerto In Seven Days — and some of his favourite Sibelius. You could scour Sibelius’s score for days and not find a hint of sentiment, grand gesture, flamboyance or ego.

Source: The Times March 29, 2021 11:03 UTC