LSO/Adès review – big in scale and emotionally confrontational

Barbican, London
Thomas Adès conducted his own Asyla with effortless authority, violinist Christian Tetzlaff’s Sibelius was occasionally wayward howeverLast week, the multi-talented Thomas Adès was appointed artistic partner with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a newly created post that allows him to showcase and premiere his own music, and expand on his work as conductor, chamber musician and lieder accompanist. The announcement came between his two Composer Focus concerts wi