Thomas Adès interview: ‘I do like things to be shocking and transcendent’

Peter Quantrill
Monday, May 18, 2020

The conductor–composer–pianist Thomas Adès talks to Peter Quantrill about storming the heavens and plumbing hell in music by Beethoven, Janáček, Barry – and Adès himself

Thomas Adès (photo: Marco Borggreve)
Thomas Adès (photo: Marco Borggreve)

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