Performances of Thomas Adès at BBC Symphony Orchestra

Tue 2 Sep 2025

• 19:30

  Adès Conducts the BBC SO

  Royal 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

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  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

  • • • Jean Sibelius
      • The Swan of Tuonela(10 mins)
    • • Gabriella Smith
      • Breathing Forests(28 mins)UK premiere
    • • interval
    • • Thomas Adès
      • Five Spells from The Tempest(22 mins)
    • • Jean Sibelius
      • The Tempest – Suite No. 1(19 mins)

  Performers

  • James McVinnie

    organ
    organ
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra
  • Thomas Adès

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Jean Sibelius
  • Gabriella Smith
  • Thomas Adès

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  Proms 2025