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Ades, Thomas: Lieux retrouves (cello and piano)

Editor: Faber Music
Numar articol: 0571519822
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 ‚La ville' the romping ‚cancan macabre' which bring it to a close, Thomas Ades's Lieux…

Ades, Thomas: Life Story (soprano and piano)

Instrument: Voice and piano
Editor: Faber Music
Numar articol: 0571515177
Comic and tragic, seedy and tender, and with a toe-stubbing punchline, Thomas Ades's deft setting of words by Tennessee Williams proved to be an instant hit with singers and audiences alike. The vocal writing in this nine-minute work is imbued with jazz and its composer cites…
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Ades, Thomas: Living Toys (score)

Instrument: Chamber Ensemble
Editor: Faber Music
Numar articol: 0571517064
Composed for the London Sinfonietta in 1993, Thomas Ades's Living Toys is one of the his most virtuosic early works. Described at the time of its premiere as ‚almost too exuberantly brilliant' the work contains a number of prominent trumpet solos and is tinged with the music…

Ades, Thomas: Mazurkas (piano)

Instrument: Pian
Editor: Faber Music
Numar articol: 0571520111
Composed in 2009 for Emmanuel Ax, Thomas Ades'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 from further off, in a stranger world. A pianist of phenomenal talent himself, Ades…

Ades, Thomas: Origin of the Harp, The (score)

Instrument: Chamber Ensemble
Editor: Faber Music
Numar articol: 0571518117
Gentle, subtle, refined and romantic, Thomas Ades's The Origin of the Harp takes its inspiration from a painting by Daniel Maclise whose subject is the Celtic Legend of a water nymph who falls for a mortal and struggles hopelessly to leave her element and join him on land. The Gods…

Ades, Thomas: Piano Quintet

Instrument: Chamber Music for Strings and Piano
Editor: Faber Music
Numar articol: 057152012X
Thomas Ades's 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-points for rich and intricate processes of transformation.  The long exposition is full…

Ades, Thomas: Polaris (full score)

Instrument: Orchestra
Editor: Faber Music
Numar articol: 0571536824
Thomas Ades's masterful Polaris for orchestra was commissioned to mark the opening of Miami's New World Symphony Concert Hall in 2011. The 14-minute work includes groups of brass instruments that may be spaced around the auditorium and traces an exhilarating arc from its quietly…

Ades, Thomas: Powder Her Face (libretto)

Instrument: Librettos of operas
Editor: Faber Music
Numar articol: 0571516114
Thomas Ades and Philip Hensher's dazzlingly precocious chamber opera Powder Her Face propelled its composer to international attention after its premiere in 1995 and remains one of the most frequently performed British operas of the last two decades. Charting the glamorous rise…

Ades, Thomas: Powder Her Face - an opera in 2 acts

(vocal score)

Instrument: Voice and piano
Editor: Faber Music
Numar articol: 0571517307
Thomas Ades and Philip Hensher's dazzlingly precocious chamber opera Powder Her Face propelled its composer to international attention after its premiere in 1995 and remains one of the most frequently performed British operas of the last two decades. Charting the glamorous rise…

Ades, Thomas: Souvenir (from Colette)

Instrument: Pian
Gen: Film & Musical
Editor: Faber Music
Numar articol: 0571541070
Thomas Ades composed the score for the 2019 film Colette starring Keira Knightley and Dominic West, which is based on the life of the French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. The film explores her fight for creative ownership and resistance to the societal constraints of the early…

Ades, Thomas: Tevot (full score)

Instrument: Orchestra
Editor: Faber Music
Numar articol: 0571536743
The sheer communicative power of Thomas Ades's Tevot for large orchestra (2007), with its perfectly judged trajectory and blazing A-major conclusion, is almost without equal. Unafraid to wear its heart on its sleeve, this is a work of breath-taking vision, sincerity and expression…

Ades, Thomas: The Fayrfax Carol

Instrument: Mixed Voices
Gen: Choral Work
Editor: Faber Music
Numar articol: 0571518354
Setting an anonymous 15th-century text, Ades's The Fayrfax Carol was commissioned by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge for the 1997 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. Subtle and lyrical yet with pointed, bitter-sweet harmonies, the piece looks ahead to Christ's Passion…

Ades, Thomas: The Four Quarters

Instrument: String Quartet
Editor: Faber Music
Numar articol: 0571540112
Thomas Ades'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 for Chamber Composition, the 20-minute work charts the progress of a day. Glassy…

Ades, Thomas: The Four Quarters

Instrument: String Quartet
Editor: Faber Music
Numar articol: 0571540120
Thomas Ades'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 for Chamber Composition, the 20-minute work charts the progress of a day. Glassy…

Ades, Thomas: The Tempest

Instrument: Librettos of operas
Editor: Faber Music
Numar articol: 0571523374
With The Tempest Thomas Ades composed one of most striking and successful opera of recent years. From the turbulent orchestral prelude with which it begins to Ariel's stratospheric yet ethereal ‚Five fathoms deep' and the radiant quintet of reconciliation in its final act…

Ades, Thomas: The Tempest - an opera in 3 act

(vocal score)

Instrument: Voice and piano
Editor: Faber Music
Numar articol: 0571522084
With The Tempest Thomas Ades composed one of most striking and successful opera of recent years. From the turbulent orchestral prelude with which it begins to Ariel's stratospheric yet ethereal ‚Five fathoms deep' and the radiant quintet of reconciliation in its final act…

Ades, Thomas: These Premises Are Alarmed (score)

Instrument: Orchestra
Editor: Faber Music
Numar articol: 0571518877
This dazzling four-minute showpiece for large orchestra was commissioned by the Hallé Orchestra and premiered in September 1996 as part of the opening celebrations of Manchester's Bridgewater Hall. Within its modest timescale, Ades has managed to compress an astonishingly rich…

Ades, Thomas: Traced Overhead (piano)

Instrument: Pian
Editor: Faber Music
Numar articol: 0571517005
First performed by Imogen Cooper at the Cheltenham Festival, Thomas Ades's Traced Overhead (1995-6) unfolds in three movements of progressively increasing length. The first, ‚Sursum' (the Latin adverb of upward motion), is marked velocissimo quasi senza peso (very fast, as if without…

Ades, Thomas: Violin Concerto (score)

Editor: Faber Music
Numar articol: 0571531059
Thomas Ades's Violin Concerto, written in 2005, is one of the most important additions to the violin concerto repertoire since Ligeti's. Cast in three contrasting movements - each linked by a preoccupation with circling musical figures - the concerto, subtitled ‚Concentric Paths'…

Adeste Fideles

Edited by Purifoy, John
Instrument: Mixed Voices
Editor: Hal Leonard
Numar articol: HL00117951
Here is a stately setting of the traditional hymn with four stanzas in Latin (with optional English verses) that will be accessible and very useful for many Christmas programs and services. Optional strings. Available separately: SATB, SAB, SSA, ChoirTrax CD. String parts (vln 1…
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