My 2008 Edinburgh festival season began last night with a trip to the Usher Hall to hear the BBC SSO under Ilan Volkov perform Thomas Adès’s Tevot and Olivier Messiaen’s final work, Éclairs sur L’Au-delà. Tevot, a recent composition, was described in the programme note (which you can find here) as “effectively Adès’s second symphony”;

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