Thomas Adès: America - A Prophecy

• Audio Samples
• Album Summary
• Notes & Reviews
• Also Purchased
• Works Details

Audio Samples

Album Summary

Performers

• Susan Bickley (Mezzo Soprano)
• Tom Poster (Piano)
• Hugh Webb (Harp)
• Richard Benjafield (Percussion)
• Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (Organ)
• Robin Blaze (Countertenor)
• Huw Watkins (Piano)
• Claron McFadden (Soprano)
• Christopher Maltman (Baritone)

Conductor

• Ades, Thomas

Ensembles

• 
• Composers Ensemble

Composers

• François Couperin (1668 - 1733)
• Thomas Adès (Conductor/Composer) (1971 - )
• Christopher Foreman / Cathal Smyth

Notes & Reviews:

The music of Thomas Adès taps into the spirit of our restless times with unquiet brilliance and an uncompromising vigour evident throughout this survey of works written in the 1990s. From the wild 'orchestration' of a Madness song (Cardiac Arrest) to his alarmingly prescient vision of a country laid waste (America), via French Baroque manners (Les Baricades Misterieuses) and a diatribe against a grand old man (Brahms), Adès is ever his own man.

Reviews

There are currently no reviews, be the first one!

Also Purchased

Works Details

Thomas Adès (Conductor/Composer) (1971 - ) : America (a prophecy), for soprano & large orchestra (optional large chorus), Op. 19

• Performer: Susan Bickley (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Thomas Adès
• Running Time: 9 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1998-1999

Thomas Adès (Conductor/Composer) (1971 - ) : The Fayrfax Carol

• Performers: Tom Poster (Piano); Hugh Webb (Harp)
• Notes: Temple Church, London (02/07/2003-02/08/2003)
• Running Time: 4 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1997

Thomas Adès (Conductor/Composer) (1971 - ) : Fool's Rhymes, for chorus, harp, prepared piano, organ & percussion, Op. 5

• Performers: Hugh Webb (Harp); Tom Poster (Piano); Richard Benjafield (Percussion); Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (Organ)
• Notes: Temple Church, London (02/07/2003-02/08/2003)
• Running Time: 1 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1992

Thomas Adès (Conductor/Composer) (1971 - ) : January Writ, for chorus & organ

• Performers: Hugh Webb (Harp); Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (Organ); Tom Poster (Piano)
• Notes: Temple Church, London (02/07/2003-02/08/2003)
• Running Time: 6 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1999

Thomas Adès (Conductor/Composer) (1971 - ) : O thou who didst with pitfall and with gin, for male chorus, Op. 3a

• Performers: Tom Poster (Piano); Hugh Webb (Harp)
• Notes: Temple Church, London (02/07/2003-02/08/2003)
• Running Time: 4 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1990

Thomas Adès (Conductor/Composer) (1971 - ) : The Lover in Winter, song cycle for countertenor & piano

• Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Huw Watkins (Piano)
• Notes: LSO St. Luke's, London (06/26/2003); LSO St. Luke's, London (10/04/2003)
• Running Time: 5 min. sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1989

Thomas Adès (Conductor/Composer) (1971 - ) : Life Story, Op. 8b

• Performer: Claron McFadden (Soprano)
• Conductor: Thomas Adès
• Ensemble: Composers Ensemble
• Notes: LSO St. Luke's, London (06/26/2003); LSO St. Luke's, London (10/04/2003)
• Running Time: 7 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1993

Christopher Foreman / Cat : Cardiac Arrest

• Conductor: Thomas Adès
• Ensemble: Composers Ensemble
• Notes: LSO St. Luke's, London (06/26/2003); LSO St. Luke's, London (10/04/2003)
• Running Time: 2 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Vocal
• Written: circa 1981

François Couperin (1668 - 1733) : Pièces de clavecin, Book 2

• Conductor: Thomas Adès
• Ensemble: Composers Ensemble
• Notes: LSO St. Luke's, London (06/26/2003); LSO St. Luke's, London (10/04/2003)
• Running Time: 2 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 1716-1717

Thomas Adès (Conductor/Composer) (1971 - ) : Brahms, for baritone & orchestra, Op. 21

• Performer: Christopher Maltman (Baritone)
• Conductor: Thomas Adès
• Running Time: 5 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 2001