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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

5 months

At 1’25”30 I speak then Danish String Quartet and Johannes Rostamo play my new Wreath

Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

5 months

“Wreath” for Franz Schubert World premiere Live-streamed tonight here at 1930 Copenhagen time Then available on demand Danish String Quartet & Johannes Rostamo via @YouTube

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

5 years

Arvo Pärt is a master of the shady metaphor. In one place today the fine double-basses came in a bit too loud, heavy and out of tempo (entirely my fault) and Arvo said: “they sound like your new Prime Minister - what’s his name - Boris Johnson.”

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Thomas Adès

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2 years

This person is Head of Music at the Arts Council. She has decided that large-scale opera in London should be cut because there is no “growth in demand.” Even if “growth” had anything to do with any art form, this is wildly disproportionate @ClaireMN_Music @ace_national @E_N_O

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Thomas Adès

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4 years

Coming back to London from concerts in Spain - two weeks quarantine - so I can’t perform. OK. If I was an “elite sportsperson” I’d be out whacking balls. Because “elite sport” is essential; as is “high end TV”. But all music, dance, art and theatre are dispensable. @OliverDowden

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

2 years

CEO of @ace_national @Henleydarren writes “opera and classical music… must change”. It is always changing, through creative people, not edicts of apparatchiks; or articles by dictators “reimagining” opera according to their own whims. Yes, I am comparing you to Stalin. @E_N_O

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

6 years

The greatest thrill of my life to receive the Leoš Janáček award in Brno last night. No award has ever meant so much to me.

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

6 years

Olly Knussen taught me that a work takes as long as it takes. He worked only to his own time scale and it was like a diamond forming.

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@Thomas_ades

4 years

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@Thomas_ades

4 years

I will be rattling my keys in the Kurtág tonight ⁦⁦ @bbcproms ⁩ ⁦ @londonsymphony ⁩

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

2 years

Harrison Birtwistle once said of Messiaen “when he dies the whole house of cards will fall down”. I feel a bit like it has fallen today.

Harrison Birtwistle - Silbury Air

Silbury Air, for chamber orchestra (1977)The London SinfoniettaElgar Howarth"Music...want[s] to tell us something, or told us something we should not have mi...

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

7 months

Hello dear friends and colleagues persisting in this world - those who only read local UK reports ( @guardian @thetimes @BBCNews etc) won’t have seen this

LA Phil

@LAPhil

7 months

We’re grateful to have been awarded Best Orchestral Performance at this year’s Grammys for Adès: Dante! Thank you to the Recording Academy for the honor, and to our artistic collaborators for making this recording possible. #Grammys @GustavoDudamel @Thomas_ades

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Thomas Adès

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4 years

Thrilling rehearsal for a Prom this Sunday at which there will be an audience of one: me. @londonsymphony @SirSimonRattle

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

2 years

Burt Bacharach, in his countless hits, never wrote a four-square phrase or predictable harmony. Burt, rightly proud of this, told me it was Darius Milhaud, his teacher at Mills College, who advised him: “don’t be afraid to write tunes people can whistle.”

Dionne Warwick - Land Of Make Believe (Scepter Records 1964)

"(In the) Land of Make Believe", a song written by Burt Bacharach & Hal David and sung by Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield and others.Marie Dionne Warwick (...

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

6 months

Delighted to be in a country where opera on the front page is good news. And to be masterly and terrifying! @operadeparis @lemondefr #theexterminatingangel

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

2 years

MARCH FOR ENO❤️ 11 am MONDAY 14th NOVEMBER FROM LONDON COLISEUM

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

6 years

I’m conducting the US national anthem for the first time next week at the Hollywood Bowl and it’s a strange feeling. I’ve put some weird words on some odd beats in my music, but even I find that a perverse place to smuggle “bombs”.

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

1 year

The sky has brightened, the eyes are extinguished, the star blazes. The man has passed, the shadow has disappeared, the prisoner is free. Oltra Mar (part VI: Mort) Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023)

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

6 years

The legendary contralto @michellevisage ⁩ - I’m writing her an opera.

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

4 years

After the long winter of live music, the thaw begins today. My new piece “Dawn” will be played at @bbcproms on August 30th by @londonsymphony . I really hope there will now be an audience, so it’s a real concert, & not just a TV session in an empty 5000-seat hall.

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

4 years

I was meant to be in Holland last night for a concert. Instead at home in London I made hollandaise, and for the first time ever it worked. Only just noticed the coincidence.

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

4 years

New York City is not New York without Broadway, says its Mayor, announcing a revival policy for arts and culture in the city. @MayorofLondon what are you doing right now for London’s decimated art and culture?

Cuomo Outlines Plans to ‘Bring Arts and Culture Back to Life’ (Published 2021)

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said that New York urgently needs to bring the arts back — not only to help jobless artists, but to make sure that New York City survives.

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

3 years

Delighted to learn the Blue Danube waltz was written to improve morale after Australia was defeated by Prussia in the Seven Weeks war.🦘🏏lovely surreal discovery @PetrocTrelawny Enjoying the concert! Prosit Neujahr!

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

4 years

*looking longingly across the Atlantic* Dear American friends, here in the UK we are still under the rule of lunatics, so if signals from here seem a little choppy, please remember what it was like being governed by a psychopath. And please send us that cleansing West wind!

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

8 years

German opera critic to me: "why do you write operas?" Me to German opera critic: "to keep you in work." He didn't get it. And it's not why.

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

6 years

It’s just been confirmed that The Exterminating Angel will be released on DVD by the @MetOpera this February, on Erato. ¡Vamos!

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

7 years

Monkeys playing snooker, because they're on the National Library of Ireland, the world's leading source of imagination.

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

4 years

Music to my ears🥳

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@GraemeDemianyk

4 years

New York going wild

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@Thomas_ades

4 years

No Rule Britannia is one thing, but isn’t No Audience in the @RoyalAlbertHall the true disaster? @bbcproms

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@Thomas_ades

3 years

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

1 year

Do try this at home! 🎻🎹☺️

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

5 years

Also conducting in Helsinki a week later - thanks to the great team at ⁦ @UKgovcomms ⁩ for this incredibly helpful bollocks. At least I know where I am with all this fucking bullshit. Thank goodness you twats are not utterly pointless and full of shit.

Finland: providing services and travelling for business

Guidance for UK businesses on rules for selling services to Finland.

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

4 years

“Dawn” breaks tonight; live on ⁦ @BBCRadio3 ⁩ at 7:30, and with pictures on BBC4 at 8:00 (UK only).

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

4 years

In London: nobody wears a mask in the street; all museums, restaurants and bars are shut; no live concerts. Here in Madrid: everyone wears a mask in the street (unless smoking); all museums, restaurants and bars are open; I do three live concerts, go to a fourth.

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

4 years

Dante, a new three-part ballet score, was to be premiered today @RoyalOperaHouse . Here is the end of Paradiso, with an electric orchestra, and film by Tacita Dean. Fate willing, it will happen next year, complete with choreography by @WayneMcGregor , the real orchestra, and me.

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

4 years

British musicians now face the same fate as British fish: rotting on the dock, abandoned by this arrogant, complacent, incompetent government.

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

5 years

'Boris Johnson is a Lying Shit' - Fugue via @YouTube

'Boris Johnson is a Lying Shit' - Fugue

He'd have you believe he can be trusted with the NHS......trusted to deliver Brexit......trusted to safeguard a livable climate!...(remember when he conspire...

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

7 years

Some brilliant person at the @MetOpera has come up with the perfect English name for the Ondes Martenot

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

2 years

@BrittenSinfonia has been a vital part of my life for ten years. We’ve toured England, the EU and the US, made recordings. Every player is at the highest level of professionalism, precision and love of music. To cut all funding can only mean @ace_national despise these things.

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

2 years

“to take money away is really difficult” @nickserota you are a paid executioner - don’t expect sympathy when you decapitate @E_N_O #apparatchik #torystooge

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

5 years

I’m making my Carnegie Hall conducting début in two hours with my concerto between delicious slices of Liszt and of Tchaikovsky, who conducted at the opening night of this hall in 1891.

Semyon Bychkov

@SemyonBychkov1

5 years

Tonight @kirillgerstein gives the New York premiere of @Thomas_ades Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with @BostonSymphony @carnegiehall :

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

4 years

Come in, make yourself at home - the party‘s started and will go on literally forever (but only streaming free for the next twenty-four hours).

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

2 years

To say “we require @E_N_O to move to another part of England to receive funding” is deranged eugenics. Why not move the Amazon rainforest to California @ace_national @nickserota you are destroying a cultural ecosystem - whoever you are, you are unhinged. Resign and seek help

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

5 years

(First rehearsal!)

Boston Symphony

@BostonSymphony

5 years

~ @Thomas_ades leads the BSO and @kirillgerstein in rehearsals for this week's program featuring the world premiere of his own second piano concerto. March 7-9, tickets at

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

4 years

Thank you Max! It was unforgettable being played to all on my own by the @londonsymphony in the @RoyalAlbertHall . Last night I felt more than ever the magic of an orchestra of musicians gathered to channel ethereal forces - nothing else like it.

maxrichtermusic

@maxrichtermusic

4 years

Still thinking about the @bbcproms last night. A powerful reminder of what we have been missing. Tender and simple beauty from @Thomas_ades and incandescent playing from Mitsuko Uchida and the @londonsymphony .

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

2 years

Programme for Last Night of the Proms (instead of cancelling it): Programme 1 Purcell: Funeral Music for Queen Mary Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem Stravinsky: Requiem Canticles - Mozart: Requiem Programme 2 Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

7 years

I’m wearing Verdi’s sunglasses! Everything looks so operatic.

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

4 years

I’m suddenly back at school watching people who look like Boris Johnson stampeding in mud in search of the ball while I dream of ideal fingerings. England is still about good or bad at games.

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

4 years

Just got a survey from @bbcproms - some easy (gay, haven’t changed gender, occasional RSI); some a bit trickier (is Sephardic Jewish origin “Other-Asian”?)- and no box for “freaked out that nobody in power thinks it matters that the @RoyalAlbertHall will be empty”.

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

6 months

My mum knows I never read reviews… but once in a decade she might send me something accidentally

A l’Opéra de Paris, “The Exterminating Angel“ de Thomas Adès fait sensation

Un spectacle dont on se souviendra longtemps : grâce à la mise en scène délirante de Calixto Bieito, grâce à un plateau vocal flamboyant et possédé, grâce à la direction musicale du compositeur, qui...

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

3 years

Cheer them In their glory Diamonds and pearls Dazzling jewels By the score This is what beauty can be Beauty celestial The best, you'll Agree: All for you These beautiful girls. Stephen Sondheim - Follies

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

7 years

@Karen_Galvin @Shawn_Galvin Walnut - King of nuts - bass Almond - Queen of nuts - soprano Hazelnut - Prince, heir - tenor Brazil nut - his wife, a foreign princess - alto Pistachio - a Mediterranean duke - countertenor Pecan - his American partner - coloratura Macadamia - a maid - mezzo

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

3 years

My first live concert in London since the Scourge is tonight - 8pm @BrittenSinfonia @BarbicanCentre @zkm555 presenting - thanks for the photo Zoë!

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

3 years

During the Scourge, @wigmore_hall was a beacon in the darkness for musicians. I was invited to give a Beethoven recital, which will be broadcast in three hours. I play two great Beethoven piano sonatas and the final set of Bagatelles.

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

4 months

200 years ago tonight, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony was premiered in the Kärnthnerthor Theater, on the site of the building on the left (now the Hotel Sacher @SacherHotels ). On the right is Vienna State Opera @WrStaatsoper where we’ll begin The Tempest revival on Thursday

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@Thomas_ades

5 years

UK Drinking game: anyone who can name the Arts Minister: drink 50% of available booze. Name the shadow arts minister: drink the rest. No googling. I predict a dry night.

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

3 years

The Exterminating Angel Symphony has its world premiere tomorrow night @CBSO . It will then be broadcast worldwide from the @bbcproms on Thursday from 7:30pm (London time). Mirga Gražinytė‐Tyla conducts. Listen here if you dare:

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2021, Gražinytė-Tyla Conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Live at the BBC Proms: Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts the CBSO in Gipps, Adès and Brahms.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

11 years

Haunting, spooky "photo" of Mozart http://t.co/sBvNO6s3Aj.

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@Thomas_ades

3 years

After a year fearing this might never happen, I’m doing a (cautious) fouetté of joy.

Studio Wayne McGregor

@WayneMcGregor

3 years

It has been a LONG wait! Wayne McGregor’s much anticipated The Dante Project will be given its world premiere by The Royal Ballet in October 2021 with an original score by @Thomas_ades and designs by pioneering artist #TacitaDean . 📸 Artwork by Tacita Dean. #RoyalOperaHouse

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

6 years

From Gerald Barry in Sicily

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

4 years

This is spot on. ⁦I’ve heard things this week that have made me fear for the future of live arts in this country. And it’s quite true that people are afraid to speak out. @bbcproms ⁩ ⁦ @southbankcentre ⁩ ⁦ @RoyalOperaHouse ⁩

The Guardian view on culture policy: yet another shambles | Editorial

Editorial: While arts organisations invent ingenious new ways to work, the government’s only creativity is in finding novel means of spreading chaos

www.theguardian.com

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

4 years

Historic admission of failure. Pitiful @OliverDowden

Lewis Goodall

@lewis_goodall

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Culture minister Caroline Dineage confirms that as a result of Brexit, musicians and arts touring in the EU "will be required to check domestic immigration and minister rules for each member states in which they wish to tour." That may include a visa or work permit.

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Thomas Adès

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6 years

He’s mixed his tenses. If he wants that Brexity, olde-worlde, ultra-Moggish conditional “were”, he should have said “trust WOULD evaporate”. He gives himself away with that future “trust WILL evaporate”, which should go with “WHEN Brexit is not delivered”, not “if”.

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

4 years

Newly published by ⁦ @FaberMusic ⁩, good for playing and singing at home.

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@Thomas_ades

4 years

What the f🤮? This is the man on whose desk £1.5billion is currently parked - clearly none of it for singers, as according to him they’re all amateurs. @oliverdowden #unqualified

James Way

@JamesBWay

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@OliverDowden "I know singing is an important passion and pastime for many people" - I find this statement so riling. An entire industry is collapsing and the best he can do is acknowledge its place alongside playing cards and bird-watching.(soz pro card-players and twitchers)

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

2 years

@ClaireMN_Music Everyone: this person is head of music @ace_national Unelected, she has decided to end popular grand opera in London because there is no “growth in demand” for it. RT if you anticipate no growth in demand for her having such power @E_N_O @RoyalOperaHouse

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@Thomas_ades

4 years

This ⬇️ is invaluable.

The Symphonist

@deeplyclassical

4 years

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Every piece. In order (*) Over 700 pieces. Almost 100 hours of music. The Complete Beethoven #TheCompleteBeethoven

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4 years

I’ll be onstage for the first time since February in a few hours, for programmes with @DKAMbremen and @StevenIsserlis , first here in Bremen, touring to Cologne and Hamburg. Feels even more of a miracle than ever that it’s happening.

Elbphilharmonie

@elbphilharmonie

4 years

Dreifach begabt: Der meistgespielte Komponist der Gegenwart @Thomas_ades kommt für ein vierteiliges Portrait in die #Elbphilharmonie – am Dirigentenpult, als Komponist und am Klavier. Lest hier mehr zu dem Allrounder mit Tiefgang 👉 ___ © Marco Borggreve

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4 years

The government’s useless answer in full. ⁦ @DCMSArts ⁩ You have failed. ⁦ @ace_national ⁩ You have given up. ⁩ ⁦ @OliverDowden ⁦ @cj_dinenage ⁩ We don’t want your regrets. Resign.

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@Thomas_ades

2 years

Janáček wrote the E-flat Minor Sonata in immediate reaction to the killing of a demonstrator by government troops in Brno on 1.X.1905. This performance on @medicitv is from 2018.

medici.tv

@medicitv

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[ #BIRTHDAY ] 🎂🎶 Czech composer Leoš Janáček was born 168 years ago! We invited @Thomas_ades to perform his Piano Sonata in E-flat Major for the occasion! 🎂🎶

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Thread. The UK government have failed to safeguard the right of British musicians to work freely in the EU.

Brexit touring row: UK proposals not fit for purpose, says EU

UK and EU in blame game which may leave British musicians forced to pay for expensive and laborious country-specific visas and equipment carnets when touring the continent

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

Dante - first television broadcast - tonight at 9pm on BBC4 ⁦ @TheRoyalBallet ⁩ ⁦⁦ @WayneMcGregor ⁩

BBC Four - The Royal Ballet: The Dante Project

Wayne McGregor’s ballet The Dante Project from the Royal Opera House.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@Thomas_ades

6 months

If you’d like to stay in tonight………….

Opéra de Paris

@operadeparis

6 months

#Direct #TheExterminatingAngel 🍿 Ce soir à 20h, regardez l'opéra de @Thomas_ades mis en scène par @Calixto_Bieito sur #POP , Paris Opera Play : Avec le soutien de la @FondationOrange , @AdobeFrance et du Cercle audiovisuel et numérique

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6 years

Elgar told off by 1920s London music critic for not going to Ravel’s concert. Quite right!

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4 years

I want to do this more than anything ever.

Flaming Lips stage unique 'space bubble' concert in Oklahoma

Both the band and their audience were inside individual inflatable bubbles.

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@Thomas_ades

5 years

Just arrived in Vilnius for concerts - this had better not be the last time I go through the EU barrier at passport control. @UKgovcomms don’t know whether I’ll need a visa next time, because they’re in the grip of a psychotic episode.

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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all. Pope: The Dunciad

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3 years

When asked why the Eighth Symphony was less popular than the Seventh, Beethoven said “because it’s so much better.” Naughty Ludwig! Sneak preview released today - if it pleases you, order the album here:

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I’m a sacred monster, tall and bulky with hard, angular features and a sepulchral voice, and I’m thrilled.

Thomas Adès en son royaume : un documentaire immersif

Monstre sacré du paysage contemporain, sa musique est fêtée partout dans le monde. En compagnie de Thomas Vergracht, nous partons à la rencontre d’un des plus grands noms de la scène internationale :...

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6 years

At the Berlin Philharmonie for tomorrow’s Berlin premiere of Totentanz

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8 years

Famous pianist and fancy a Republican? Grab them by Debussy

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I stayed at Trump Tower in 1998. Out of the gold bath-taps came literal sewage. They connected the wrong pipes. Metaphor? @realDonaldTrump

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6 years

Email from Gerald Barry: “Joan Hickson Miss Marple is as good as all early Stockhausen”

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6 years

Janáček’s house in Brno. In that room he wrote some of the greatest music ever composed. That wallpaper is the original design. It looks as if he corrected his manuscripts with fire…

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6 years

Fauré “In Paradisum” piped into the gents at Heathrow Terminal 5 #sublime #ridiculous #why #whynot #whythough #exaggeration

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5 years

I’m playing the piano at the Vienna State opera in a few weeks - thanks to the oh so brilliant UK government @UKgovcomms for this fucking helpful shite - also sincere thanks to anyone who voted for Brexit, from me and all other musicians. Will update.

Austria: providing services and travelling for business

Guidance for UK businesses on rules for selling services to Austria.

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@Thomas_ades

4 years

Concerts in Madrid with the National Orchestra of Spain @ocnesp tonight, tomorrow and Sunday. What a magnificent orchestra and city!

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@Thomas_ades

4 years

This broadcast of The Tempest became the @DGclassics release which in 2014 won the Grammy for best opera. Streaming again live tonight @MetOpera 7:30 NYC time, for 23 hours. UK viewers can watch at any time on Wednesday.

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5 years

For anyone who feels like hearing a new piano concerto, and Liszt's Mephisto Waltz and Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony: tonight on Classical Radio Boston: A World Premiere with Gerstein

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@Thomas_ades

4 years

It’s the first time I’ve ever made a playlist and it may be inadvertently quite scary but there it is.

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@Thomas_ades

7 years

About to make my debut as a grandfather. And a small bird, a duck, a cat and Peter. Will I finally win over my harshest critic (nephew, 5)?

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4 years

@SamBirdyy @HelenJMacdonald Why is the Beethoven transposed up a semitone?🤔

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@Thomas_ades

7 years

Happy to say your hope will be realized!

Kate Green

@kategreenmusic

7 years

Reminiscing and totally obsessing over the end of Act 1 of #TheExterminatingAngel when the orchestra diverges time from the drums and it's just totally epic. Loved seeing the @MetOpera show the other night. Desperately hoping for an orchestral suite of the opera @Thomas_ades .

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@Thomas_ades

8 years

Hello, Craft? This is empty! And the ashtray is full.

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@Thomas_ades

3 years

During this concert, one of the largest snowstorms ever to hit the city was about to pinwheel into Boston and cancel our final show; but the brilliant team @CRBClassical and @BostonSymphony were ready, and recorded the first night. Berg, piano concertos by me & Ravel, La Valse.

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@CRBClassical

3 years

Saturday night's @BostonSymphony concert may have been canceled for the snow, but we have great news: you can hear it on demand on our website right now, for free! @Thomas_ades and @kirillgerstein join forces once again:

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@Thomas_ades

3 years

The world premiere of my clarinet quintet Alchymia is broadcast worldwide tonight. Tune in here if you’d like to hear the concert that took place last week @KingsPlace . @MarkSimpson_88 and @DiotimaQuartet played like angels & dæmons.

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, Kings Place: Mark Simpson with the Diotima Quartet

The Diotima Quartet play music by Schubert, Brahms and an Adès world premiere.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@Thomas_ades

5 years

On 28th February Deutsche Grammophon releases the new recording of Totentanz and Concerto for Piano and Orchestra performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Gerstein, Christianne Stotijn & Mark Stone - Adès Conducts Adès

Adès Conducts Adès (Live) by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Adès, Kirill Gerstein, Christianne...

Go to Adès Conducts Adès (Live) by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Adès, Kirill Gerstein, Christianne Stotijn & Mark Stone.

dg.lnk.to

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

4 years

I’m literally very excited about this - if you like victory, venery, violas and storms and giving thanks when they’re over, and whistling - @SignumRecords @BrittenSinfonia

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Thomas Adès

@Thomas_ades

4 years

I did wonder.

Chopin's interest in men airbrushed from history, programme claims

Journalist says he has found overt homoeroticism in Polish composer’s letters

www.theguardian.com

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@Thomas_ades

5 years

If you think everything’s got a bit too stupid and you need the antidote, go and see The Intelligence Park @RoyalOperaHouse - a glorious tirade, the Sterne, Joyce and Beckett of opera.

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@Thomas_ades

8 years

At last, good news - from Austria, where they remember what can happen if you put a deranged, self-pitying bully in charge.

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