Blanca Variations
solo piano
- Year
- 2015
- Duration
- 00:05:00
- Category
- Piano
Commission
Commissioned by Concours International de Piano Clara Haskil for the 26th Edition 2015, Vevey, Switzerland
Programme notes
A set of five variations on the Ladino folk tune Lavaba la blanca niña, Thomas Adès’s Blanca Variations were commissioned by the 2016 Clara Haskil International Piano Competition. The Variations appear in Act I of The Exterminating Angel, Adès’s opera based on the film by Luis Buñuel, where they are performed by Blanca Delgado, a famous pianist who is one of a number of guests invited to an exclusive dinner after a night at the opera, but who later become unable to leave. In an interview for the Salzburg Festival, where the opera premiered, Adès described the folk tune as displaying ‘an unassuageable harmonic structure very typical of longing and bereavement.’
Availability
Score on special sale from the Hire Library
Scores and publication
Upcoming performances
No performances found.
Previous performances
- — Wigmore Hall (London, United Kingdom) — United Kingdom — Composer
- — No Venue (Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy) — Italy — Composer
- — Barco Teatro Padova (Padua, Italy) — Italy — Composer
- — Wigmore Hall (London, United Kingdom) — United Kingdom — Composer
- — Wigmore Hall (London, United Kingdom) — United Kingdom — Composer
- — Sala Filharmonii Narodowej (Warsaw, Poland) — Poland — Composer
- — First Presbyterian Church (Santa Monica, CA, USA) (20:00) — USA — Composer
- — Kammermusiksaal, Philharmonie (Berlin, Germany) — Germany — Composer
- — Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall (New York City, NY, USA) — USA — Composer
- — 22 Mansfield Street (London, United Kingdom) — United Kingdom — Composer
- — Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory (Boston, MA, USA) — USA — Composer
- — Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (Salt Lake City, UT, USA) — USA — Composer
- — St Mary's Church, Barnes (London, United Kingdom) — United Kingdom — Composer
- — St Bride's Church, Fleet Street (London, United Kingdom) — United Kingdom — Composer
- — No Venue (Los Feliz, CA, USA) — USA — Composer
- — Salle de la Bourse (Strasbourg, Alsace, France) — France — Composer
- — Wigmore Hall (London, United Kingdom) — United Kingdom — Composer
- — Clore Studio, Royal Opera House (London, United Kingdom) — United Kingdom — Composer
- — Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, Lincoln Center (New York City, NY, USA) — USA — Composer
- — Parc de Bagatelle (Paris, France) — France — Composer
- — Salle del Castillo (Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland) — Switzerland — Composer
- — Théâtre de Vevey (Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland) — Switzerland — Composer
- — Théâtre de Vevey (Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland) — Switzerland — Composer
Recordings
- Time Traveler’s Suite — 2021 — Pentatone (PTC 5186 874)
- Thomas Adès: Piano Solo Works — 2020 — Naxos (8.574109)