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…

Par ADES THOMAS. Thomas Adès’s second work for string quartet, The Four Quarters was written for the Emerson Quartet and was premiered by them at Carnegie Hall in 2011. The winner of the 2012 British Composer Award for Chamber Composition, the 20-minute work charts the progress of a day. Glassy harmonics typify the opening movement Nightfalls, whilst playful pizzicati abound in Serenade – Morning …

Media : Book
Author : by Thomas Mace. transcribed, arranged and edited by Andrew Shepard-Smith
Level : Intermediate
Date published : 9/27/2005
Style : Early Music/Renaissance
Type : Solos
Description :
The first complete anthology of lute music contained within Thomas Mace's historic treatise Musick's Monument (1676), transcribed and edited for classical guitar …

Par DOSS THOMAS. Music for a Drunken Cat est une pièce de style grotesque avec accompagnement de piano, pour clarinettiste de niveau avancé. Le compositeur Thomas Doss brosse ici le portrait d'un chat ivre livré à lui-même dans son appartement - on préfère ne pas imaginer les bêtises… Un tempo plutôt rapide, quelques sonorités étranges, une pièce gratifiante pour l'instrumentiste qui fait son peti…

Par ADES THOMAS. Thomas Ades' Chamber Symphony Op.2 was first performed on the 24th February 1991 in Cambridge, at the West Road Concert Hall. It was performed by the Contemporary Music Festival Ensemble, for the Cambridge Festival of Contemporary Music, conducted by the composer himself. Chamber Symphony Op.2 is a written for a chamber orchestra consisting of fifteen players. / Niveau : Assez Fac…

for piano. Par LARCHER THOMAS. One could say that it is very natural to write for a “natural” [as opposed to prepared] piano - yes, maybe, but for me this had not been natural for many years. Exploring new things and sounds sometimes also has to do with not wanting to face the status quo, hiding oneself in a so-called future. In many of my earlier pieces I had fled into preparing the piano, wantin…

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, Duch…