Today's Concert: Thomas Adès, Asyla

The English composer Thomas Adès wrote this colorful piece when he was only twenty-eight. The conductor gives an interesting introduction but if you don't speak German, the piece starts around the eight minute mark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9YGQ86vIps

And here is the composer conducting just the Ecstasio movement with the Danish National Symphony: