CONCENTRIC PATHS
Couperin - Les baricades mistérieuses
Couperin arr. Thomas Adès - Les baricades
mistérieuses
Thomas Adès - Three Studies from Couperin
Ravel - Le tombeau de Couperin
Stravinsky - Air du rossignol and Marche chinoise
Stravinsky - Suite no. 1 for Small Orchestra
Stravinsky - Suite no. 2 for Small Orchestra
Thomas Adès - Violin Concerto (Concentric Paths)
Thomas Adès - conductor
Pekka Kuusisto – violin
Had Adès not had an epiphany in his teens that led to composing he may have chosen a career as a pianist and it is at the piano where we find him for the opening of this concert – a solo performance of Couperin’s kaleidoscopic and seductive Les barricades misterieuses. A French strand threads its way through the programme as Adès conducts works by Couperin, his own Three Studies on Couperin and Ravel’s tribute to the memory of the French master.
This compelling concert climaxes with Adès’ own Violin Concerto performed by mercurial Pekka Kuusisto. Subtitled Concentric Paths, each of the concerto’s three movements has its own circular design containing spiralling high jinks, shifting harmonic sands and other-worldly soundscapes.
UPDATE: Programme notes are now available here.
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