Thomas Adès

Thomas Adès's Brahms for baritone and orchestra (2001) is a setting of Alfred Brendel's poem 'Brahms II' in which the malodorous ghost of Brahms stalks a house and plays the piano late at night. Adès...

'… a magnificent orchestral journey through chaos to consolation.' The Times (Geoff Brown), 20 February 2010

Thomas Adès's The Tempest is one of the most striking and successful operas of recent years. This paperback full score edition is perfect for use as a study score for conductors and musicians. From th...

Thomas Adès' The Tempest, one of the most striking and successful operas of recent years, is available for the first time as a beautifully produced, limited-edition full score. Featuring the stunning...

Thomas Adès's second work for string quartet, The Four Quarters was written for the Emerson Quartet and was premiered by them at Carnegie Hall in 2011. The winner of the 2012 British Composer Award fo...

Thomas Adès's second work for string quartet, The Four Quarters was written for the Emerson Quartet and was premiered by them at Carnegie Hall in 2011. The winner of the 2012 British Composer Award fo...

The string quartet score for Arcadiana composed by Thomas Adès in digital sheet music format.

The parts for the string quartet Arcadiana composed by Thomas Adès in digital sheet music format.

Thomas Adès’s Violin Concerto ‘Concentric Paths’, written in 2005, is one of the most important additions to the violin concerto repertoire since Ligeti’s. Cast in three contrasting movements - each l...

Seit über vier Jahrzehnten kennt man Nancarrows Musik für mechanisches Klavier mit ihrer kaum ausführbar klingenden, akrobatischen Kompliziertheit. An die Stelle einer traditionellen Notenschrift trit...

Thomas Adès' 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-poin...

The first performance was given by the Endellioon Quartet in the West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge as part of the Cambridge Elgar Festival on 16 November 1994.

The first performance was given by the Endellioon Quartet in the West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge as part of the Cambridge Elgar Festival on 16 November 1994.

The full set of parts to The Four Quarters, composed by Thomas Adès for string quartet in digital sheet music format.

The score to The Four Quarters, composed by Thomas Adès for string quartet in digital sheet music format.

From the swirling waves of its opening movement ' Les eaux', the yodelling mountaineers of ' La montagne', the pastoral elegance of ' Les Champs' with its hushed, stratospheric solo cello lines, and '...

In der Originalpartitur des Violinkonzertes fordert György Ligeti die Interpreten seines Werkes dazu auf, eine eigene Solokadenz zu erfinden. Thomas Adès nahm diese Einladung gerne an und verfasste 20...

Life Story Op. 8 (1993), for soprano with two bass clarinets and double bass, was first performed by Mary Wiegold and the Composers Ensemble conducted by the composer at the West Road Concert Hall, Ca...

'Powder Her Face' is an opera by Thomas Ades. It was comissioned by Almeida Opera and premiered in the 'Everyman Theatre' cheltenham on July 1st 1995, as part of the Cheltenham festival.

Thomas Ades' opera, in three acts, was commissioned by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, who gave the first performance on 10th February 2004, conducted by the composer. Instrumentation: Prospero...

'January Writ' is rated as difficult.

Composed in 2009 for Emmanuel Ax, Thomas Adès’s Mazurkas listen to the Polish folk genre as it was listened to by Chopin, except that its rhythms and the heave of its shifting accents are now caught f...

First performed by Imogen Cooper at the Cheltenham Festival, Thomas Adès’s Traced Overhead (1995-6) unfolds in three movements of progressively increasing length. The first, ‘Sursum’ (the Latin adverb...

Thomas Adès, wrote this ingenious 9-minute piano work for himself to play at a 1993 Park Lane Group recital. Its title is an allusion to the John Dowland, whose ‘Semper Dowland semper dolens’ occasion...

Thomas Adès’s Darknesse Visible for piano solo (1992) is a 7-minute explosion of John Dowland’s lute song In Darknesse Let Me Dwell (1610). No notes have been added; indeed, some have been removed. Pa...