Vocal, Songs, Adès (composer)
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Special offer. The Four Quarters
The Solem Quartet, Amy Tress, William Newell (tape), Stephen Upshaw, Stephanie Tress (electronics), William Marsey (tape)
This terrific, imaginative debut recording from the young British quartet is built around the eponymous 2011 work by Thomas Adès, which is interleaved with the group's own arrangements of works... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2021
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Æther
Sarah Aristidou (soloist), Daniel Barenboim, Christian Rivet, Emmanuel Pahud, Orchester des Wandels, Chor der KlangVerwaltung, Thomas Guggeis
Can you capture the ineffable? Sarah Aristidou’s remarkable debut disc Æther explores things within and beyond. She is duly shrouded in mist for the booklet pictures, but there is nothing the... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Newcomer
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Many quartets have broken the tradition of single-composer discs. The Castalians do it with top performances and meticulous imagination. —
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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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Thomas Adès - America
RecommendedSusan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Claron McFadden (soprano), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Huw Watkins )piano), Christopher Maltman (baritone)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Thomas Adès
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Contemporary
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Adès: America A Prophecy
RecommendedSongs & Choral Works
Robin Blaze, Christopher Maltman & Susan Bickley
Polyphony & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Layton & Thomas Ades
Adès’s take on a Madness song about a stressed businessman is a hoot. Although Adès apparently did it from memory, it’s fairly accurate, right down to the piano’s cluster chords. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Contemporary
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Somehow, Booth pivots effortlessly from one character and style to another while inhabiting each one with its own presence and conviction. Coleman's razor-sharp responses on piano (in addition... —
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Thomas Adés - Life Story
Thomas Adès (piano), Lynsey Marsh (clarinet), Anthony Marwood (violin), Louise Hopkins (cello), David Goode, Stephen Farr (chamber organ), Valdine Anderson (soprano), Mary Carewe (soprano)
Adès has the gift of seizing your attention with strange but ravishingly beautiful sonorities and then holding it with entrancingly mysterious inventions that allure the ear. Yet he also has... —
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taken whole this is a classy and interestingly varied recital, with unfailingly sensitive contributions from both performers. —
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British Classical Masterpieces
Gerald Peregrine, Antony Ingham, Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano), Henry Purcell, Kym Amps, David van Asch, Maria Kliegel (cello), Nigel North (lute), Benjamin Frith (piano), Dale Kavanagh (guitar), Madeleine Mitchell (violin), Gordon MacKay, Joseph Spooner, Murray McLachlan (piano),...
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