Thomas Adès | Classical review

Barbican, LondonComposers who also conduct often do so differently to their full-time counterparts. Their gestures are simpler – and frequently more useful to their players than the refined curlicue preferred by some career conductors. The composer Thomas Adès also plays the piano differently. He peers diffidently at the score as if seeing it for the first time. Meanwhile, his fingers flash up and down the keyboard in a haze of perfectly struck executions. The result is an unusual limp...

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