Performances of Thomas Adès at BBC Music
(See all works in BBC Music by Thomas Adès)Tue 2 Sep 2025
- 19:30Royal Albert Hall
Composer and conductor Thomas Adès joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a performance of music from his own opera The Tempest alongside Sibelius’s tone-poem The Swan of Tuonela
Composer and conductor Thomas Adès joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a performance of music from his own opera The Tempest alongside Sibelius’s tone-poem The Swan of Tuonela
Programme
- The Swan of Tuonela(10 mins)
- Breathing Forests(28 mins)UK premiere
- interval
- Five Spells from The Tempest(22 mins)
- The Tempest – Suite No. 1(19 mins)
Performers
- James McVinnieorgan
- Thomas Adèsconductor
Composers
Part ofProms 2025
Fri 7 Nov 2025
- 19:30Barbican, London
Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius’s Lemminkaïnen Legends – a stirring counterpart to the brilliance of Thomas Adès’s Violin Concerto, played by Christian Tetzlaff.
Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius’s Lemminkaïnen Legends – a stirring counterpart to the brilliance of Thomas Adès’s Violin Concerto, played by Christian Tetzlaff.
Programme
- Symphonic Variations on an African Air
- Violin Concerto 'Concentric Paths'
- interval
- Lemminkäinen Suite, Op 22
Performers
- Sakari Oramoconductor
- Christian Tetzlaffviolin
