Concentric Paths
Thomas Ades
Thomas Ades conductor
Pekka Kuusisto violin
Couperin Les baricades misterieuses
Couperin arr. Thomas Adès Les baricades misterieuses
Thomas Adès Three Studies from Couperin
Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin
Stravinsky Airs du rossignol and Marche chinoise
Stravinsky Suites Nos 1 & 2 for Small Orchestra
Thomas Adès Concerto for Violin (Concentric Paths)
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 mysterieuses.
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 18th century French music.
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.
Programme notes (c) Jo Kirkbride
Thomas Ades' biography
Pekka Kuusisto's biography
Pekka talks to Britten Sinfonia violinist Lizzie Ball as part of a series of videos that were taken during the 2010 Britten in America tour
Dates
Dijon
Saturday 11 February
8.00pm
Box Office: +33 (0)3 80 48 82 82
Cambridge
Monday 20 February
7.30pm
Box Office: 01223 357851
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New York
Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall
Wednesday 22 February
7.30pm
Norwich
Saturday 25 February
7.30pm
Box Office: 01603 630000
London
Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall
Monday 27 February
7.30pm
Box Office: 0844 875 0073
Dublin
Tuesday 28 February
8.00pm
Box Office: 00353 1 417 0000
