Programme Booklet

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In March 2019 Kirill Gerstein gave the première of Thomas Adès’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in Boston, with the composer at the conductor’s desk – a fascinating work with quirky rhythms and jazzy sonorities. At least since 2016, when his opera The Exterminating Angel premièred at the Salzburg Festival, Adès has numbered among the leading composers of our time. Now he will present his Piano Concerto in Munich with Kirill Gerstein and the Bavarian RSO, along with Benjamin Britten’s Suite on English Folk Tunes. These two English works will be bookended by Leoš Janáček’s The Fiddler’s Child and his famous Sinfonietta.

Gallery

Impressions from the concerts with Thomas Adès and Kirill Gerstein.

Thomas Adès

Christopher Corbett

Magdalena Hoffmann

Thomas Adès and Kirill Gerstein

Photos from the rehearsals with Thomas Adès and Kirill Gerstein.

Kirill Gerstein with the "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra" by Thomas Adès.

Kirill Gerstein and Thomas Adès.

Wen Xiao Zheng, viola.

Janáček's "Sinfonietta" with 12 trumpets, 2 bass trumpets and 2 Wagner tubas.

Cellist Katharina Jäckle.

Concertmaster Thomas Reif.