Availability

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

Wigmore Hall (London, United Kingdom)

Kirill Gerstein

Berceuse from The Exterminating Angel

The Green Room at the Grand (Folkestone, United Kingdom)

Karen Jones/Joseph Havlat/Alessandro Ruisi/Adrian Bradbury/Anna Hashimoto