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Special offer. Adès: America A Prophecy

Songs & 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. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2018
  • Release Date: 18th Apr 2011
  • Catalogue No: 0272012
  • Label: Warner Classics
  • Series: British Composers
  • Length: 59 minutes

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Contents

Adès: America: A Prophecy Op. 19

Work length15:38
$2.60
$3.40
  • Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
  • City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
  • Thomas Adès
  • Recorded: 2002-03-28
  • Recording Venue: 28 March 2002. Symphony Hall, Birmingham.

Part I Oh my nation prepare...

Track length9:42
$1.30
$1.70

Part II Burn, burn, burn

Track length5:56
$1.30
$1.70

Adès: The Fayrfax Carol

Work length4:01
$1.30
$1.70
  • Stephen Layton/Polyphony, Teddy Layton (lead vocals), Polyphony (lead vocals)
  • Recorded: 2003-02-08
  • Recording Venue: 7 & 8 February 2003. The Temple Church, London.

Adès: Fools' Rhymes

Work length4:24
$2.60
$3.40
  • Tom Poster (piano), Hugh Webb (harp), Richard Benjafield (percussion)
  • Recorded: 2003-02-08
  • Recording Venue: 7 & 8 February 2003. The Temple Church, London.

Supernat'ral light...

Track length1:37
$1.30
$1.70

We're all in the dumps...

Track length2:47
$1.30
$1.70

Adès: January Writ

Work length6:13
$1.30
$1.70
  • Stephen Layton/Polyphony/Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, Teddy Layton (lead vocals), Polyphony (lead vocals), Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (lead vocals)
  • Recorded: 2003-02-08
  • Recording Venue: 7 & 8 February 2003. The Temple Church, London.

Adès: O thou who didst with pitfall and with gin

Work length4:40
$1.30
$1.70
  • Stephen Layton/Polyphony, Teddy Layton (lead vocals), Polyphony (lead vocals)
  • Recorded: 2003-02-08
  • Recording Venue: 7 & 8 February 2003. The Temple Church, London.

Adès: The Lover in Winter

Work length5:40
$5.20
$6.80
  • Huw Watkins (lead vocals), Robin Blaze (lead vocals)
  • Recorded: 2003-10-04
  • Recording Venue: 26 June & 4 October 2003. LSO St. Luke's, London.

Iam nocet frigus teneris

Track length1:07
$1.30
$1.70

Nec limpha caret alveus

Track length0:57
$1.30
$1.70

Modo frigescit quidquid est

Track length1:40
$1.30
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Nutritur ignis osculo

Track length1:56
$1.30
$1.70

Adès: Life Story Op. 8b

Work length7:55
$1.30
$1.70
  • Claron McFadden (soprano)
  • Composers Ensemble
  • Thomas Adès
  • Recorded: 2003-10-04
  • Recording Venue: 26 June & 4 October 2003. LSO St. Luke's, London.

Cathal Smyth, Christopher Foreman: Cardiac Arrest

Work length2:39
$1.30
$1.70
  • Composers Ensemble (lead vocals)
  • Thomas Adès
  • Recorded: 2003-10-04
  • Recording Venue: 26 June & 4 October 2003. LSO St. Luke's, London.

Couperin, F: Les baricades mistérieuses (from Pièces de clavecin II: Ordre 6ème in B flat)

Work length2:42
$1.30
$1.70
  • Composers Ensemble
  • Thomas Adès
  • Recorded: 2003-10-04
  • Recording Venue: 26 June & 4 October 2003. LSO St. Luke's, London.

Adès: Brahms Op. 21

Work length5:39
$1.30
$1.70
  • Christopher Maltman (bass-baritone)
  • City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
  • Thomas Adès
  • Recorded: 2002-03-28
  • Recording Venue: 28th March 2002, Symphony Hall, Birmingham

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