Gramophone Awards, Adès (composer)

[The Piano Concerto] is immediately compelling, conducted here by the composer with pianist Kirill Gerstein, who inspired it, and  the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who then commissioned it, raucous... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2020, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

The Danish are remarkable, as ever – capable of intense blend, extreme dynamic variation (in which they seem glued together), perfect intonation even on harmonics, and constant vitality and... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2016More…

…everyone reaches out to the purple passages when Adès touches something rich and strange. Those include the evolution of the young lovers' music from homages to midsummer Britten and Tippett... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2009, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Tevot's scintillating surge is brilliantly realised, as Ades's ark rides the glistening orchestral waves towards us. There's sheer pleasure to be had in its sonic grandeur, a sense of music... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

These five pieces suggest a composer as delightedly surprised by his prodigal inventiveness as we are. Arcadiana, for example, is a seven-movement string quartet whose central and longest movement... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

Adès’s take on a Madness song about a stressed businessman is a hoot. Although Adès apparently did it from memory, it’s fairly accurate, right down to the piano’s cluster chords. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2018More…