Thomas Ades: String Quartets, Piano Quintet
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.CYBELE-SACD-261603

By Dimitri Vassilakis and DoelenKwartet Rotterdam. By Thomas Ades. Classical. Hybrid SACD. Naxos #Cybele SACD 261603. Published by Naxos (NX.CYBELE-SACD-261603).

UPC: 809548017941.

Thomas Ades studied piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and read music at King's College, Cambridge. Ades has won numerous awards, including the Leonie Sonning Music Prize and the Grawemeyer Award, of which he is the youngest ever recipient. His works have been established as a kind of "modern classic", appearing several times on recordings and entering the repertoire of many ensembles. The range of reference in this and much of Ades's best-known music has yielded for the composer a reputation as a kind of "postmodern ironist", whose enormous technical gifts, some have argued, disguise a lack of real imagination and an over-reliance on the music of others. But Ades's musical idiom is always recognizably his own! The DoelenKwartet, ranking among the leading quartets in the realm of contemporary classical music enhanced by the exceptional pianist Dimitri Vassilakis from Ensemble Intercontemporain, interprets Ades' works with passion, history and intensity - attributes that characterize Ades' unique compository manuscript.