Piano Quintet

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Thomas Adès

Piano Quintet

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Thomas Adès

Piano Quintet

  • Instrumentation 2 Violins, Viola, Cello and Piano
  • Composer Thomas Adès
  • Edition Set of Parts - 2 Violins, Viola and Cello
  • Publisher Faber Music
  • Order no. 0571572006
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  • Weight: 633 g
  • Genre: Classical Music, Classical Music of the Modern Age
  • ISBN: 9780571572007
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-points for rich and intricate processes of transformation. The long exposition is full of subtle metrical juxtapositions, with the piano and string quartet often playing in different time-signatures simultaneously, creating a disorienting sense that the music is continually shifting in and out of temporal focus. After the extremes of the central development section, the recapitulation is a gigantic accelerando which speeds up to four times the original speed, and generates enormous, seemingly unstoppable momentum. The effect is of a dramatic and temporal compression: it is as if the whole work were squeezed into this musical black hole. This product is the set of instrumental parts.