Browse: Presto Recordings of the Year, 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, More…

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 flow — Gramophone Magazine, June 2016 More…

In this recording of the production from the Met in New York you being to wonder whether the guests are on stage or in the audience. Ades, who co-wrote the libretto with his director Tom Cairns,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, More…

In this recording of the production from the Met in New York you being to wonder whether the guests are on stage or in the audience. Ades, who co-wrote the libretto with his director Tom Cairns,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, More…

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 being... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, More…