Thomas Adès

Thomas Adès' The Tempest, one of the most striking and successful operas of recent years, is available for the first time as a beautifully produced, limited-edition full score. Featuring the stunning...

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...

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...

Thomas Adès’s Violin Concerto ‘Concentric Paths’, written in 2005, is one of the most important additions to the violin concerto repertoire since Ligeti’s. Cast in three contrasting movements - each l...

Nancarrow's music for player piano with acrobatic complexity that sounds hardly performable has been known for more than four decades. The traditional notation is replaced by the accurate manual punch...

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...

The first performance was given by the Endellioon Quartet in the West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge as part of the Cambridge Elgar Festival on 16 November 1994.

The first performance was given by the Endellioon Quartet in the West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge as part of the Cambridge Elgar Festival on 16 November 1994.

The full set of parts to The Four Quarters, composed by Thomas Adès for string quartet in digital sheet music format.

The score to The Four Quarters, composed by Thomas Adès for string quartet in digital sheet music format.

From the swirling waves of its opening movement ' Les eaux', the yodelling mountaineers of ' La montagne', the pastoral elegance of ' Les Champs' with its hushed, stratospheric solo cello lines, and '...

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...

Life Story Op. 8 (1993), for soprano with two bass clarinets and double bass, was first performed by Mary Wiegold and the Composers Ensemble conducted by the composer at the West Road Concert Hall, Ca...

The full score for this large work for Orchestra, Mezzo-Soprano soloist, and chorus was written in 1999 as part of the New York Philharmonic's Millennium commission. Characteristic of Ades, the Orches...

Full score of Thomas Adès' 1993 composition for large Orchestra. Instrumentation: 3(all=picc).3(III=ca.I+II=ca ad lib).3(II=Ebcl.III=bcl).3(III=cbsn) – 6.3(I=crt ad lib).2.btrbn.1 – perc(6): timp/6 tg...

'These Premises Are Alarmed' was written for the Halle Orchestra during Thomas Ades's period as Composer-in-Association with them. The first performance was given by the Halle Orchestra conducted by K...

'Powder Her Face' is an opera by Thomas Ades. It was comissioned by Almeida Opera and premiered in the 'Everyman Theatre' cheltenham on July 1st 1995, as part of the Cheltenham festival.

Thomas Ades' opera, in three acts, was commissioned by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, who gave the first performance on 10th February 2004, conducted by the composer. Instrumentation: Prospero...

Setting a brooding text from Ecclesiastes, this five-minute anthem by the acclaimed composer Thomas Adès is a powerful work full of dark beauty with an atmospheric organ accompaniment.A part of the Fa...

Composed in 2009 for Emmanuel Ax, Thomas Adès’s Mazurkas listen to the Polish folk genre as it was listened to by Chopin, except that its rhythms and the heave of its shifting accents are now caught f...

First performed by Imogen Cooper at the Cheltenham Festival, Thomas Adès’s Traced Overhead (1995-6) unfolds in three movements of progressively increasing length. The first, ‘Sursum’ (the Latin adverb...

Thomas Adès, wrote this ingenious 9-minute piano work for himself to play at a 1993 Park Lane Group recital. Its title is an allusion to the John Dowland, whose ‘Semper Dowland semper dolens’ occasion...

Thomas Adès’s Darknesse Visible for piano solo (1992) is a 7-minute explosion of John Dowland’s lute song In Darknesse Let Me Dwell (1610). No notes have been added; indeed, some have been removed. Pa...

A paraphrase in the manner of Liszt or Busoni, this brilliant, quick-witted reworking of music from four scenes of Adès’s scandalous – and hugely successful ­ ­– first opera Powder Her Face is a virtu...

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 ma...