Thomas Adès's Piano Quintet (2000) is a vivid reimagining of sonata form (complete with exposition repeat). Whilst it's themes are recognisably tonal, these simple building-blocks are the starting-poi...
Composer's note: Catch structures itself around various combinations of the four instruments (piano, cello, violin and clarinet). There are several games going on: at the start, the clarinet is the ou...
Thomas Adès composed the score for the 2019 film Colette starring Keira Knightley and Dominic West, which is based on the life of the French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. The film explores her f...
This suite of exquisite portrait pieces for violin, clarinet, cello and piano was composed in 2005 and distils the essence of six numbers from Adès's astonishing opera The Tempest into purely instrume...
'… a magnificent orchestral journey through chaos to consolation.' The Times (Geoff Brown), 20 February 2010
Voilà plus de quarante ans que l'on connaît la musique pour piano mécanique de Nancarrow avec sa complexité acrobatique et sonore à peine réalisable. La notation traditionnelle est remplacée par des p...
Thomas Adès' Piano Quintet (2000) is a vivid reimagining of sonata form (complete with exposition repeat). Whilst it's themes are recognisably tonal, these simple building-blocks are the starting-poin...
In a conversation with the violinist Peter Herresthal, we touched on the “invitation' in the score of Ligeti's Violin concerto to provide a cadenza for the work. Peter suggested that I answer this inv...
The full score for this large work for orchestra, written in 2005 for violinist Anthony Marwood. The complete score and parts are available for rental only. Please contact [email protected]...
A tour de force of precocity. Unconventionality and tradition mingle and are rudely juxtaposed in a way that rivets attention. The Sunday Telegraph (Michael Kennedy), 4 July 1999 Instrumentation: fl(=...