Thomas Adès & London Symphony Orchestra - Adès: Asyla, Tevot, Polaris (2017)

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"What strikes one most about these performances is how brilliantly Adès, as composer and also as conductor, marshals what often seem like collisions of contradictory ideas into cogent and compelling structures. My favourite has to be the majestic Polaris."
–Richard Morrison, The Times

"The music is carried aloft by great, heaving cosmic waves through a universe glistening with heavenly sounds…These are technically challenging scores that take an orchestra to its limits. With Adès conducting, the London Symphony Orchestra reaches for the stars."
–Richard Fairman, Financial Times

"The combination of effervescence and deep-water surge is often irresistible. Adès is also a strikingly fine conductor, and these authoritative recordings come as a two-disc set."
–Michael Dervan, Irish Times

"deliciously humorous in this new recording from baritone Samuel Dale Johnson with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer … excellent performances of his major orchestral scores … if you wanted just one disc of Ades' orchestral music I'd suggest it might be this one, especially as you get a CD and a Blu-Ray audio disc in the package."
-BBC Radio 3 Record Review

"a stunning disc, and should be eagerly snapped up by anyone with an interest in British contemporary music!" –James Longstaffe, Presto Classical

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