Covid has yielded some of the freshest CDs in years
Album Of The WeekFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
Emerging from the depths of Covid are some of the freshest ideas we have seen in years. Here, a newly formed string quartet takes a 2012 score by the British composer Thomas Adès and intersects it with works of their own making, very old and very new. The Adès piece describes the earth’s 24-hour rotation on its own axis – neat, but not stunningly original in either concept or content.
Like his contemporary Young British Artists in the visual arts, Adès has amassed more eminence than admirers. …
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