Thomas Adès

In Three Studies from Couperin, Thomas Adès empathetically reworks three pieces by the Baroque composer into music that is distinctively Adès without dismissing the source material. The basic structur...

'Powder Her Face' is the libretto for 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 festiv...

'Still Sorrowing' - a lament which is also a homage to Romantic sentiments - proved to make the most ingenious use of a prepared' piano that I have heard in a long time. While a recurrent plaint tinti...

Ausgangspunkt waren die Briefe von Vincent van Gogh. Ungeachtet der persönlichen Tragödien des Malers sind sie voll ausgelassener Fröhlichkeit, mit der van Gogh die praktischen Begleitumstände seines...

This is part of a series of inter-related instrumental workbooks for keyboard, guitar, bass guitar and percussion. Planned so that concepts are carefully introduced, consolidated and extended, this is...

. . . arguably the most spectacular orchestral writing heard in any opera of the past half a century. For mastery of texture, color and invention, Mr. Anderson sets standards. . . a triumph of sustain...