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...
'… a magnificent orchestral journey through chaos to consolation.' The Times (Geoff Brown), 20 February 2010
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...
Thomas Adès's second work for string quartet, The Four Quarters was written for the Emerson Quartet and was premiered by them at Carnegie Hall in 2011. The winner of the 2012 British Composer Award fo...
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...
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(=...