Browse: Adès (composer), String Quartets
This page lists all recordings composed by Thomas Adès (b.1971).
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The Danish are remarkable, as ever – capable of intense blend, extreme dynamic variation (in which they seem glued together), perfect intonation even on harmonics, and constant vitality and flow — More…
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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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Many quartets have broken the tradition of single-composer discs. The Castalians do it with top performances and meticulous imagination. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Newcomer
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As a concept, this collection of songs inspired by rugged British landscapes is intriguing. The delivery is powerful, but borders on twee at moments. — More…
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Adès: Arcadiana and other works
RecommendedLondon Sinfonietta, Endellion String Quartet, King's College Cambridge Choir, Markus Stenz
These five pieces suggest a composer as delightedly surprised by his prodigal inventiveness as we are. Arcadiana, for example, is a seven-movement string quartet whose central and longest movement... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Editor's Choice
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Micro-sensitive to each work's emotional and harmonic pacing, the Signum sound as though they are dioscovering the wonders of the Debussy and Ravel Quartets and Ades's ravishing Arcadiana for... — More…
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50 Minimalist Classics
Joby Burgess, Lara James, Daniella Ganeva, Ulrich Heinen, Soumik Datta, Claire Jones, Llŷr Williams, Sally Pryce, Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan, Jeremy Young, Julian Bliss, Christoph Denoth, The Zoo Duet, The Smith Quartet, Gareth Lubbe, Matthew Barley, City of Birmingham Symphony...
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Part of the fascination of Thomas Adès’s chamber music is that it intrigues the mind with its science, while transporting the listener to imaginary places...The Calder Quartet perform all three... — More…
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Thomas Adès: Anthology
Thomas Adès (piano), Susan Bickley (mezzo), Anthony Marwood (violin)
Endellion String Quartet, Arditti Quartet, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London Sinfonietta, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Markus Stenz
This two-disc summary of Adès's career avoids some of the more obvious works – nothing from The Tempest, for instance – but manages to include both his youngest work and some recent, hitherto... — More…
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