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Thomas Adès: Dante
RecommendedLos Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Gustavo Dudamel
Adès takes Liszt’s legacy of demonic harmony and develops it further away some of the orchestral layers to reveal recorded voices from the congregation at the Great Ades Synagogue in Jerusalem,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st April 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, Orchestral Choice
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Winner - Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Contemporary Classical Composition
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Throughout, the playing is thoughtful and full of poetry, recorded in intimate sound. There’s an elusive quality to this multifaceted programme, for sure, but on balance it repays attentive... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Lieux retrouvés
RecommendedMusic for cello & piano
Steven Isserlis (cello), with Thomas Adès (piano)
Match [Ades's playing] with the mellow sound and manner of Steven Isserlis's cello, and you have something very special. Their choice of repertory here - devised as an extended upbeat to Ades's... —
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Building a Library, January 2013, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Disc of the Month
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Elgar & Adès: Violin Concertos
RecommendedChristian Tetzlaff (violin), BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds
Arresting and tautly persuasive, Christian Tetzlaff challenges orthodoxy in this impressive account of Elgar's great B minor Violin Concerto.... Tetzlaff's riveting account [of the Adès] should... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Editor's Choice
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New. East Meets West
Aftab Darvishi - Unsuk Chin - Jörg Widmann - Thomas Adès
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Nancy Zhou, Ye-Eun Choi, Muriel Razavi, Pablo Ferrández (cello), Stephanie Gonley (violin), London Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Adès
Likoo – the title refers to a folk poetry genre rooted in the desert life of Iran – is a sinuous lament, written before the recent outbreak of war but now unbearably poignant….[in the Adès]... —
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Adès Conducts Adès
RecommendedMark Stone (baritone), Kirill Gerstein (piano), Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Adès
[The Piano Concerto] is immediately compelling, conducted here by the composer with pianist Kirill Gerstein, who inspired it, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who then commissioned it, raucous... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th March 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2020, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, May 2020, Nouveauté
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Winner - Contemporary
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2020
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Classical Compendium
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Classical Composition
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Adès: In Seven Days
Kirill Gerstein (piano), Thomas Adès (piano/conductor), Tanglewood Music Centre Orchestra
For Gerstein this music, like Beethoven and Bach’s has become part of his DNA, the difference being that with this living composer he can discuss details of performance…This recording makes... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, Instrumental Choice
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The Danish are remarkable, as ever – capable of intense blend, extreme dynamic variation (in which they seem glued together), perfect intonation even on harmonics, and constant vitality and... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2016, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Chamber
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Adès: The Exterminating Angel Symphony & Violin Concerto
Leila Josefowicz (violin), Minnesota Orchestra, Thomas Søndergård
Thomas Adès is a composer with the capacity to seduce and terrify in equal measure and both extremes are in evidence on this captivating album. —
