This evening's concert could be "challenging." Here's the word from WCRB:
Saturday, March 25, 2023
8:00 PMEncore broadcast on Monday, April 3
Thomas Adès returns to the Boston Symphony to conduct Igor Stravinsky’s dreamy retelling of Perséphone and two of his own works inspired by Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century Italian epic poem Commedia.
Thomas Adès, conductor
Edgaras Montvidas, tenor
Danielle de Niese, narrator
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, James Burton, conductorSTRAVINSKY Perséphone (libretto and translation)
Thomas ADÈS Inferno Suite
ADÈS ParadisoTo hear a preview of Inferno Suite and Paradiso with Thomas Adès, use the player above or the tab below. For a preview of Stravinsky's Perséphone with Danielle de Niese, use tab below:
And here's the BSO performance detail page:
English composer Thomas Adès returns to lead two works from The Dante Project, a three-part ballet score from 2021 based on Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century Italian epic poem Commedia. The piece was written to mark the 700th anniversary of the poet’s death. Igor Stravinsky’s mythology-based Perséphone for narrator, tenor, chorus, and orchestra is a magically surreal neoclassical retelling of the goddess Persephone’s abduction by Hades, god of the underworld.
Sung in French with English supertitles
Friday afternoon’s appearance by Edgaras Montvidas is supported by a gift in loving memory of Alan J. Dworsky.
Thomas Adès, conductor
Edgaras Montvidas, tenor
Danielle de Niese, narrator
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
James Burton, conductor
The Boys of the St. Paul’s Choir School
James Kennerly, directorSTRAVINSKY Perséphone
Intermission
Thomas ADÈS Inferno Suite
Thomas ADÈS Paradiso
The reviews are in. The Globe's is a rave, while in the Intelligencer we are exhorted to listen even though music of these styles may not be our cup of tea.
I didn't hear it, but Stravinsky is Stravinsky, it seems, and, if nothing else, Adès is apparently loud. So maybe give it a try, but don't be surprised if you don't like it.
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