London Sinfonietta/Adès – review

City Halls, GlasgowAt its premiere, Thomas Adès's In Seven Days was hailed as a sign the composer might be mellowing in middle age. True, the "video ballet", a piano concerto that nominally tells the creation myth with abstract images by Adès's partner Tal Rosner, is earthier and less pointedly ironic than earlier scores. There are moments of easy beauty, when the piano (played by Nicolas Hodges) meanders over lush strings, and some typically clever orchestral writing, when the winds flit ab...

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