Thomas Adès
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Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000: The Tempe
Adès conducting the Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris (2025)
Thomas Adès conducting the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in 2017
A scene from a production of Powder Her Face by Pier Luigi Pizzi at the Teatro Comunale Bologna, 2010
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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The BBC Symphony Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. Founded in 1930, it was the first permanent salaried orchestra in London, and is the only one of the city's five major symphony orche
BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall
The BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican in October 2012
John Reith, Director-General of the BBC
Guest conducting the BBC SO in the 1930s: from top left, clockwise, Beecham, Koussevitzky, Mengelberg, Richard Strauss, Toscanini, Walter, Webern, Weingartner