Thomas Adès
Born: 1st March 1971, London, England
Nationality: English
Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000: The Tempest (2004), Violin Concerto (2005), Tevot (2007), In Seven Days (2008), and Polaris (2010). Major recent works include: Dante (2020) and Aquifer (2024).
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Sean Shibe on Vesper
25th May 2026
The Scottish guitarist discusses his new album of works by Thomas Adès, Harrison Birtwistle and James Dillon, released on Pentatone last month.
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Anne-Sophie Mutter on East Meets West
30th Mar 2026
To celebrate the launch of her new series on Alpha Classics, ASM Forte Forward, the violinist talks about her long history of commissioning and performing new works by composers including John Williams, Witold Lutosławski, Unsuk Chin, and Aftab Darvishi.
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All Works: Adès
- ...but all shall be well (2)
- Air - Homage to Sibelius (1)
- Alchymia (1)
- America: A Prophecy Op. 19 (3)
- Aquifer (1)
- Arcadiana (8)
- Ariel's Song (from The Tempest) (1)
- Asyla (6)
- Berceuse (from The Exterminating Angel) (3)
- Blanca Variations (2)
- Brahms Op. 21 (3)
- Cardiac Arrest (2)
- Catch Op. 4 (3)
- Chamber Symphony (3)
- Coffee-Spoon Cavatina (1)
- Concerto Conciso (1)
- Concerto for piano and orchestra (1)
- Court Studies from The Tempest (3)
- Dante (2)
- Darknesse Visible (9)
- Dawn (2)
- Exterminating Angel Symphony (1)
- Five Eliot Landscapes Op. 1 (2)
- Five Spells from The Tempest (1)
- Fools' Rhymes (2)
- Forgotten Dances (1)
- Gefriolsae Me op.3b. (1)
- Habanera from 'The Exterminating Angel' (1)
- Hotel Suite from Powder Her Face (1)
- In Seven Days (3)
- Inferno Suite (1)
- January Writ (2)
- Les Baricades Mistérieuses (2)
- Lieux retrouvés (3)
- Life Story Op. 8b (7)
- Living Toys op.9 (2)
- Luxury Suite from Powder Her Face (1)
- Märchentänze (2)
- Mazurkas for Piano, Op. 27 (9)
- O Albion (3)
- O thou who didst with pitfall and with gin (2)
- Piano Quintet (3)
- Polaris: Voyage for orchestra (3)
- Powder Her Face suite (2)
- Powder Her Face: Concert Paraphrase (5)
- Shanty - Over the Sea (1)
- Sola (1)
- Sonata da Caccia op.11 (1)
- Souvenir (from Colette) (1)
- Still Sorrowing Op. 7 (3)
- Suite from "The Tempest" (1)
- Tevot (4)
- The Branch (1)
- The Fayrfax Carol (11)
- The Four Quarters (3)
- The Lover in Winter (3)
- The Origin of the Harp op.13 (1)
- The Tempest (1)
- These Premises Are Alarmed (2)
- Three Studies after Couperin (1)
- Totentanz (2)
- Tower - for Frank Gehry (1)
- Traced Overhead Op. 15 (3)
- Under Hamelin Hill Op. 6 (2)
- Violin Concerto ‘Concentric Paths’ (6)
Recent Best Sellers: Adès
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Special offer. Vesper | Adès - Birtwistle - Dillon
Sean Shibe (guitar)
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2026 Finalist, Contemporary
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Special offer. East Meets West | Aftab Darvishi - Unsuk Chin - Jörg Widmann - Thomas Adès
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Nancy Zhou, Ye-Eun Choi, Muriel Razavi, Pablo Ferrández (cello), London Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Adès
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Elgar & Adès: Violin Concertos
Christian Tetzlaff (violin), BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2026, Winner - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2026 Finalist, Concerto
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Special offer. Thomas Adès, Per Nørgård & Hans Abrahamsen
Danish String Quartet
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2016, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Chamber
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New Releases: Adès
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New. Elgar, Adès & Walton: Music for Violin and Piano
Michael Foyle (violin), Iain Burnside (piano)
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New. In the Heat of Classics
Thomas Adès (piano), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Terry Wey (countertenor), Paul O'Dette (lute), Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Viktoria Postnikova (piano), Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Marcel Reyans (tenor), Nicolas Courjal (bass), Samuel Ramey (baritone), Dong Hyek Lim (piano), Véronique Gens (soprano), Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Alexandre Duhamel (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano), Hans Hotter (baritone), Vilde Frang (violin), Hélène Grimaud (piano), Lucia Popp (soprano), Siegfried Jerusalem (tenor), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Jennifer Larmore (mezzo-soprano), Antoine Palloc (piano), Sharon Kam (clarinet), Aldo Ciccolini (piano), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Catherine King (mezzo-soprano), Jacob Heringman (lute), Stéphane Grappelli (violin), Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Jack Sewing (double bass), Marc Fosset (guitar), Martin Taylor (guitar), Christian Ivaldi (piano), Michel Debost (flute), Monique Rollin (zither), Stephen Kovacevich (piano), Thibaut Garcia (guitar), Nathan Berg (baritone), James Morris (bass-baritone), Dan Dressen (tenor), Peter Barkworth (narrator), Lesley Garrett (vocals), Michael Ball (vocals), Dalal (piano), Angela Maria Blasi (soprano), Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Giuseppe Taddei (baritone), Gottlob Frick (bass), Jean-François Heisser (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Sarah Chang (violin), Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Martha Argerich (piano), Beatrice Rana (piano), Jorma Hynninen (baritone), Peter Sadlo (percussion), Biao Li (percussion), Claudio Estay (percussion), Philipp Jungk (percussion), Dmitri Alexeev (piano), Anne Fournet (narrator), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Philharmonia Orchestra, Les Arts Florissants, Kammersensemble de Paris, Coro Gulbenkian, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, Orchestre de Paris, Il Pomo d'Oro, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon, Il Giardino d'Amore Choir, Il Giardino d'Amore, Opéra National de Lyon, London Classical Players, Orchestre National de France, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, London Sinfonietta, Staatskapelle Dresden, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sextuor Jeanne Loriod, Concentus musicus Wien, English Chamber Orchestra, Brentano Quartet, BBC Concert Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Wiener Symphoniker, Teatro alla Scala, Wiener Philharmoniker, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Estonian State Academic Choir, Helsinki University Choir, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, The Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Orchestra, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Tiffin Boys Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Michel Plasson, Robert Irving, William Christie, Armin Jordan, John Nelson, Evgeny Svetlanov, Stephen Stubbs, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Alexandre Desplat, Maxim Emelyanychev, Thomas Dausgaard, André Previn, Ton Koopman, Kent Nagano, Stefan Plewniak, Louis Langrée, Sir Roger Norrington, Didier Benetti, Philip Ledger, Sir Charles Groves, Vernon Handley, Robin Ticciati, Bernard Haitink, Gregor Bühl, Jonathan Tunick, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Marius Constant, Sir Neville Marriner, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Jeanne Loriod, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Carlo Maria Giulini, Philip Brunelle, Michel Legrand, Kurt Masur, Riccardo Muti, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Andrew Davis, Herbert von Karajan, Libor Pešek, Otto Klemperer, Jean Martinon, Paavo Berglund, André Cluytens, Daniel Barenboim
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