Adès: Orchestral Works Pekka Kuusisto, Tomas Nuñez, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Nicholas Collon

• Thomas Adès (b. 1971): Hotel Suite from "Powder Her Face":
• 1 Adès: Hotel Suite from "Powder Her Face": I. Overture 03:52
• 2 Adès: Hotel Suite from "Powder Her Face": II. Scene with Song 06:20
• 3 Adès: Hotel Suite from "Powder Her Face": III. Wedding March 02:40
• 4 Adès: Hotel Suite from "Powder Her Face": IV. Waltz 04:19
• 5 Adès: Hotel Suite from "Powder Her Face": V. Finale 02:03
• Lieux retrouvés (Orchestral Version):
• 6 Adès: Lieux retrouvés (Orchestral Version): I. Les eaux 04:58
• 7 Adès: Lieux retrouvés (Orchestral Version): II. La montagne 04:21
• 8 Adès: Lieux retrouvés (Orchestral Version): III. Les champs 03:50
• 9 Adès: Lieux retrouvés (Orchestral Version): IV. La ville - Cancan macabre 03:41
• Märchentänze (Orchestral Version):
• 10 Adès: Märchentänze (Orchestral Version): I. — 04:00
• 11 Adès: Märchentänze (Orchestral Version): II. — 04:30
• 12 Adès: Märchentänze (Orchestral Version): III. A Skylark for Jane 02:07
• 13 Adès: Märchentänze (Orchestral Version): IV. — 03:44
• Dawn, Chacony for Orchestra at Any Distance:
• 14 Adès: Dawn, Chacony for Orchestra at Any Distance 06:22
• Total Runtime 56:47

Info for Adès: Orchestral Works

In the Autumn of 2021, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra together with its new chief conductor, Nicholas Collon, arranged a Thomas Adès festival in Helsinki devoted to the world famous composer’s music in addition to works by other composers chosen and conducted by Thomas Adès (b. 1971). One of the highlights of the festival’s program was the world première of Märchentänze in its version for violin and orchestra performed by violinist Pekka Kuusisto, Adès’ long-time artistic partner. This new album by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra includes four recent and exciting orchestral works written by the composer between 2016 and 2021 in world première recordings.

In addition to the Märchentänze, this album includes Adès’ orchestral Hotel Suite from Powder Her Face, an adaptation based on the music from the opera through which Adès first made a widespread name for himself in the mid-1990s. The orchestral version of Lieux retrouvés, originally written for Steven Isserlis, could be described as a cello concerto in the spirit of Marcel Proust. Orchestral work Dawn was written for the 2020 London Proms for ‘orchestra at any distance’, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Adès’ Dawn comes across as timeless music floating in a serene universe of beauty all its own.

Pekka Kuusisto, violin
Tomas Nunez, cello
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Nicholas Collon, conductor

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