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Gerstein slips between tender introspection and ferocious virtuosity with breathtaking ease…[Totentanz is] a stunningly descriptive work that is given an equally sensational performance here.... — James Longstaffe, Presto Classical, 6th March 2020 More…

Release Date: 28th Feb 2020
Catalogue No: 4837998
Label: DG
Length: 55 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

6th March 2020

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Adès: Concerto for piano and orchestra

21:24

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Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Adès
Recorded: 2019-03-09
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Boston

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7:34

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2. -

7:00

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3. -

6:50

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Adès: Totentanz

34:28

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Mark Stone (baritone), Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Adès
Recorded: 2016-11-05
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Boston

Der Prediger

1:16

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Der Tod

1:56

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Der Tod zum Papst – Der Papst

1:51

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Der Tod zum Kaiser – Der Kaiser

2:15

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Der Tod zum Kardinal – Der Kardinal

2:41

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Der Tod zum König – Der König

1:55

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Der Tod zum Mönch – Der Mönch

1:41

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Der Tod zum Ritter – Der Ritter – Der Tod zum Bürgermeister – Der Bürgermeister

1:49

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Der Tod zum Arzt – Der Arzt – Der Tod zum Wucherer – Der Wucherer

0:45

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Der Tod zum Kaufmann – Der Kaufmann

2:05

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Der Tod zum Küster – Der Küster – Der Tod zum Küster

4:01

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Der Handwerker – Der Tod zum Handwerker

2:20

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Der Tod zum Bauer – Der Bauer

2:13

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Der Tod zum Mädchen – Das Mädchen

2:57

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Der Tod zum Kind – Das Kind

4:43

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Recording of the Week, Two world premiere recordings of music by Thomas Adès

6th March 2020

Thomas Adès conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in performances of two of his own works: the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, and Totentanz.

In March this year, Thomas Adès, one of the most acclaimed and most frequently performed contemporary composers of our time, conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Kirill Gerstein performing the world premiere of his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Comissioned by the BSO for Kirill Gerstein the work already is becoming part of the concert repertoire worldwide.

This live recording of what turned out to be a ravishing celebration of contemporary music, receiving rapturous response from audience and critics alike, is paired on the album with Adès’s 2013 work Totentanz.

Totentanz brings together baritone (Mark Stone) and mezzo-soprano (Christianne Stotijn) soloists with a (very) large orchestra, unfolding a dialogue between a charismatic and gleefully macabre Grim Reaper and the procession of his many victims, from Pope to Maiden and Child.

Reviews

6th March 2020

Gerstein slips between tender introspection and ferocious virtuosity with breathtaking ease…[Totentanz is] a stunningly descriptive work that is given an equally sensational performance here. Coupled with the Piano Concerto it makes for one of the most striking discs of contemporary music that I have come across for some time.

27th February 2020

[Totentanz] seems more original than ever – a series of vivid, sometimes grotesque scenes, with baritone Mark Stone in superb form as Death and mezzo Christianne Stotijn portraying his successive victims.

28th February 2020

[The Piano Concerto's] eye-catching novelty lies, perversely, in its respect for the past...dead people’s fingerprints are everywhere, next to Adès’s asymmetrical smudges...Totentanz has a virility and emotional resonance that suggests a work with a long life ahead.