Thomas Adès - Piano Concerto - Kirill Gerstein, piano - Boston Symphony Orchestra #thomasades | History of Music

Thomas Adès, one of the leading British composers of his generation, wrote Lieux retrouvés (“Places Rediscovered”) for cello and piano in 2009 for Steven Isserlis. Drawing on a wide range of influences, the piece's four movements evoke a series of landscapes—from still waters and mountain paths to a field at nighttime—before culminating in the finale, seen here in this clip. Isserlis described the finale, subtitled Cancan macabre, as “all brilliant lights, flirtatious naughtiness and grotesque o