Thomas Adès

Oh! It's A Lovely War contains a great selection of much loved pieces arranged for Piano and Voice with Guitar chord symbols. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

Ce recueil de chansons parfait lié est rempli de photos tout au long d'et contient des chansons les plus populaires des aigles. Arrangé pour voix et piano avec boîtes de corde. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

Par ADES THOMAS. Thomas Ades' Life Story Op.8 (1993) is based on an extract from In The Winter Of Cities by Tenesse Williams. This is the 1994 version for Soprano and Piano and is based upon the original score for two Bass Clarinets and Double Bass. THis version for vocie and piano irst performed by Sarah Leonard and Rodney Bennett at the Warwick Festival on 8th July 1994./ Répertoire / Chant et Piano

Opera in 3 acts, Text: Meredith Oakes, after Shakespeare. Par ADES THOMAS. The Libretto of the Opera by Thomas Ades, adapted from the Shakespeare comedy by Meredith Oakes. The Opera was first performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in February 2004. / Opéra-opérette / Livre / Livret

to the violin concerto by Gyorgy Ligeti. Par ADES THOMAS. In a conversation with the violinist Peter Herresthal, we touched on the “invitation” in the score of Ligeti’s Violin concerto to provide a cadenza for the work. Peter suggested that I answer this invitation and I was happy to accept. I followed all the composer’s directions exactly: the cadenza may use material from all five movements, and should be of “hectic” character throughout. I also aimed to write a cadenza of which the closing orchestral coda would be an inevitable result. (Thomas Adès) The cadenza can also be composed by the soloist and can last up to 1-2 minutes. It should be hectic throughout (continuation of the appassionata agitato molto), but can incorporate melodic material ad lib. from all five movements. Towards the end, the tempo should be prestissimo with alternating arco and left hand pizz. in mad virtuosity. The cadenza has no real end and is suddenly interrupted by the orchestra at R (as agreed between soloist and conductor). This interruption occurs suddenly 'as if unprepared'. The soloist should at this point be playing in high positions (on the top string) at maximum velocity. The solo violin abruptly falls silent on the entry of the high woodblock. György Ligeti/ Répertoire / Violon

The Best Of Mötley Crue. Parmi les chansons retrouvez 'City Boy Blues', 'Home Sweet Home', 'Live Wire', 'Take Me To The Top'. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

Par ADES THOMAS. Thomas Adès and Philip Hensher's dazzlingly precocious chamber opera Powder Her Face propelled its composer to international attention after its premiere in 1995 and, with nearly 300 worldwide performances, remains one of the most frequently performed British operas of the last two decades. Charting the glamorous rise and seedy fall of the notorious socialite beauty Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, the score is as witty, poignant and memorable as the 'Dirty Duchess' herself, paying homage to the popular idioms of cabaret and tango, as well as to Weill, Berg and Stravinsky. It is hard to believe that this masterpiece was written by a 24 year-old, but then that young man was Adès, whose prodigious musical talent was awe-inspiring even as a teenager./ Répertoire / Orchestre

Par ADES THOMAS. Thomas Adès's Op. 1 is a romantic, fanciful, finely wrought response to colourful 'minor poems' of T.S. Eliot, with ingenuities unobtrusively tucked away into the composition. At the close of 'New Hampshire' the piano sings in counterpoint 'Do you want the stars to play with, the moon to run away with?' 'Rannoch' explores chromatic-scale descents as inventively as Verdi explored an 'enigmatic scale' in his Ave Maria. They underpin, without jeopardizing, his spontaneous response to Eliot's lines. 'Cape Ann', bearing an 'Hommage à Messiaen' dedication, rings with the birdsongs evoked in the poem. / Répertoire / Soprano et Piano

Par ADES THOMAS. La première représentation a été donnée par le London Sinfonietta effectué par Oliver Knussen dans le Barbican Hall, Londres, le 11 février 1994./ Répertoire / Conducteur