Instrumental arrangements from the British composer's opera “The Exterminating Angel” were a concert highlight. Thomas Adès has left SummerFest, but the memory of his residency remains.
He played piano masterfully and captivated us with his compositions. Thomas Adès has left SummerFest, but the memory of his residency remains.
Adès unassumingly sat down and without fuss proceeded to play the Canons. Amazingly, he sounded like one of Nancarrow’s player pianos on stage, punching out jerky syncopations and polytemporal hijinks.: “Arcadiana” and “The Four Quarters” . “Arcadiana” can be heard as seven character pieces which evoke barcarolles, a sinister tango, Ravel, Mozart, and Schubert.
“The Exterminating Angel” is based on the film by Luis Buñuel. A “berceuse” is a lullaby, and while the first one refers to young lovers falling asleep in each other’s arms, the rest of the berceuses reference death in the opera. In the last act, those same lovers hate to perish with the other dinner guests trapped in a dining room , so they slip away into a closet, inviting death to “enter through our feet.” .
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