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Ades: Living Toys
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This is the second recording of music by young British composer Thomas Adès, and it contains several quite impressive works, mostly written between 1993 and 1994. His seven-movement, 20-minute string quartet Arcadiana (Op. 12) stands as the most complete achievement on this disk, and it's a work of striking ingenuity and confidence. Adès was 27 when this recording was released, and more than anything it's a document of an imaginative artist finding his own voice. "The Origins of the Harp" is moving for its dramatic turns and a poignant sense of closure. "Gefriolsae Me," sung by men from the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, springs upward from a medieval motet. The title work is the most harmonically jagged and rhythmically free of these works and points to an ever-searching spirit. Among the musicians, the London Sinfonietta, the Endellion Quartet, and Adès himself perform with great precision and care, and the engineering is superb. --Pierre Ruhe
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Various - Thomas Ades - Living Toys - CD
Review
The title piece finds the composer using a huge range of compositional techniques.... Different instruments resolutely go their own way to have all sorts of musical adventures.... It's exhilarating stuff. -- USA Today
ASIN: B000006OGT
VSKU: DBV.B000006OGT.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Thomas Adès|Markus Stenz|Andrew Clark|Michael Niesemann|Richard Benjafield|James Boyd|Judith Busbridge|Louise Hopkins|Susan Knight|Lynsey Marsh|Paul Richards|Jonathan Tunnell|Paul Watkins|Robert Quinney
Binding: Audio cd
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Condition Notes: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. Ships Fast!
ASIN: B000006OGT
VSKU: DBV.B000006OGT.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Thomas Adès|Markus Stenz|Andrew Clark|Michael Niesemann|Richard Benjafield|James Boyd|Judith Busbridge|Louise Hopkins|Susan Knight|Lynsey Marsh|Paul Richards|Jonathan Tunnell|Paul Watkins|Robert Quinney
Binding: Audio cd
Note: Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.
Condition Notes: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. Ships Fast!
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