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Score on special sale from the Hire Library

Programme Notes

Commissioned by Alexandre Devals and Mimi Durand Kurihara for Kirill Gerstein, this Berceuse for solo piano is a reworking of music from Act III scene iii of Adès’ 2016 opera. In one of the score’s many lullabies, Eduardo and his fiancée Beatriz, lying hidden together in a cabinet, choose to take their own lives rather than become victims of the exterminating angel.

Berceuse from The Exterminating Angel

Breakfast show

BBC Radio 3 (United Kingdom)

Kirill Gerstein

Berceuse from The Exterminating Angel

Berwaldhallen (Stockholm, Sweden)

Kirill Gerstein

Berceuse from The Exterminating Angel

Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall (New York City, NY, USA)

Kirill Gerstein

Berceuse from The Exterminating Angel

Music Centre (Helsinki, Finland)

Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra/Thomas Adès/Kirill Gerstein

Berceuse from The Exterminating Angel

Tivolis Koncertsal (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Kirill Gerstein

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