When a composer as brilliant as Thomas Adès takes to the conductor’s podium you can be sure of something special. The conventional conductor’s poise and grace are of no interest to him; he wants to ...

Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra landed a Grammy nomination Friday for best orchestral performance. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) The Los Angeles Philharmonic led ...

Thomas Adès led the New York Philharmonic in an expanded version of his “America: A Prophecy” that strikes notes of caution and consolation. By Joshua Barone Listen to recordings by Maria Dueñas and ...

Thomas Adès thinks big. Devotees of the composer, conductor, and pianist can hardly complain about his busy public profile. Still, for fans of his large-scale works, hell is the relative rarity of ...

There was a splendid, soul-fulfilling performance of Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” Symphony on the Aspen Music Festival’s opening weekend, but dramatic pieces by the celebrated British composer Thomas ...

He played piano masterfully and captivated us with his compositions. Thomas Adès has left SummerFest, but the memory of his residency remains. There was perhaps no more impressive display of his ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Thomas Adès is obsessed with sound color, as he vividly demonstrated with the assistance of the unflappable Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus (expertly prepared by Lisa Wong) in his ...

If Prokofiev’s original intention in his Second Piano Concerto was shock and awe, Yuja Wang gives exactly the right performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

The British are coming! The British are coming! Sixty years after The Beatles led a sonic “British Invasion” of the United States in 1964, La Jolla Music Society will stage one of its own during the ...

The male soprano Samuel Mariño’s “Lumina,” a suite from Thomas Adès’s “The Tempest” and Ginastera’s string quartets are among the highlights. Andris Nelsons led a concert performance of Puccini’s ...

The Los Angeles Philharmonic led by conductor Gustavo Dudamel earned major nods Friday in the 2024 Grammy Award nominations, led by their performance of the fantastical “Adès: Dante.” SZA earned 9 ...