Ligeti 100: Thomas Adès conducts Ligeti, Liszt, Stravinsky,and Adès with Kirill Gerstein, piano

The stormy and lyrical lushness of Hungarian Franz Liszt’s symphonic poem Les Préludes (1854) opens our program. English composer and conductor Thomas Adès and Russian-American pianist Kirill Gerstein celebrate the centennial of Hungarian composer György Ligeti with his kaleidoscopic Piano Concerto. Stravinsky’s ballet score Orpheus (1947) retells the classic myth in pure and elegant musical strokes. In closing, Adès shares what he calls his “sin...