As more years pass, the more i’m coming to believe that the highlights of Adès’ career – some of which are equally staggering in their brilliance – are actually aberrations and flukes, and it’s stuff like this that more realistically and accurately typify his music.
Not sure I’d quite go that far, but he definitely seems have been doing a lot of coasting (to put it charitably) since Totentanz.
Not sure I’d quite go that far, but he definitely seems have been doing a lot of coasting (to put it charitably) since Totentanz.