Adès: The Twenty-Fifth Hour - Chamber Music of Adès
6/1/2015, 14 Tracks, 56:15
Featuring
Thomas Adès
Benjamin Jacobson
Andrew Bulbrook
Jonathan Moerschel
Eric Byers
Calder Quartet
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Recording & Production
This album was recorded in All Saints Church, East Finchley, London, from April 28th to 30th, 2014.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Composer Thomas Adès states that over nearly twenty years of composing, he has discovered that music only gets more and more mysterious.
Composer Biography
Thomas Adès, the composer, was born in London in 1971 and has composed two operas, orchestral works, chamber works, solo piano works, and choral works.
Performer Biography
The Calder Quartet are winners of a 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant and are known for commissioning and mentoring emerging composers, with over thirty commissioned works to date.
Performer Biography
The Calder Quartet, praised as 'outstanding' and 'superb' by the New York Times, performs a broad range of repertoire and collaborates with artists across musical genres.
Instruments
The recording features a Gasparo da Salo viola 'ex-Adam' from around 1590, generously loaned by the Stradivari Society of Chicago.
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