Adès: The Twenty-Fifth Hour - Chamber Music of Adès Calder Quartet & Thomas Adès

Cover Adès: The Twenty-Fifth Hour - Chamber Music of Adès

Album Info

Album Veröffentlichung:
2015

HRA-Veröffentlichung:
07.12.2016

Label: Signum Classics

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

Interpret: Calder Quartet & Thomas Adès

Komponist: Thomas Adès

Das Album enthält Albumcover Booklet (PDF)

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  • Thomas Ades (1971): Piano Quintet:
  • 1I.11:43
  • 2II.04:35
  • 3III.03:00
  • The 4 Quarters:
  • 4No. 1. Nightfalls07:06
  • 5No. 2. Serenade: Morning Dew03:12
  • 6No. 3. Days03:50
  • 7No. 4. The Twenty-Fifth Hour03:51
  • Arcadiana, Op. 12:
  • 8I. Venezia notturno02:39
  • 9II. Das klinget so herrlich, das klinget so schon01:22
  • 10III. Auf dem Wasser zu singen02:35
  • 11IV. Et… (tango mortale)03:53
  • 12V. L'Embarquement02:34
  • 13VI. O Albion03:27
  • 14VII. Lethe02:27
  • Total Runtime56:14

Info zu Adès: The Twenty-Fifth Hour - Chamber Music of Adès

Los Angeles based string quartet The Calder Quartet releases an album of works by Thomas Adès, including the British composer’s first ever work for string quartet, Arcadiana; The Four Quarters (World Premiere Recording) and Adès’s single movement Piano Quintet with Adès himself at the piano.

"a series of ingenious and alluring snapshots. The Calder Quartet perform all three with energy and sensitivity. Highly recommended." (Financial Times)

"...Fine recorded sound as well; this is music and performances that repay repeated listening" BBC Radio 3 CD Review, March 2015 "The players of the young American quartet seem so inside this music they might have been playing it all their lives" (Classical Music Magazine)

„The Los Angeles-based Calder Quartet has been playing these three chamber works by Thomas Adès for several years, we are assured in the perceptive booklet notes. And it shows – not just in the players’ passionate, confident performances but also in the way they dig straight to the heart of Adès’s complex yet thrillingly evocative music, hurdling the fearsome rhythms and quick-change articulations to convey the stories and pictures behind the notes with ringing clarity.

It’s there in the seven idyllic sound pictures of Arcadiana – the Calders sound convincingly bandoneón-like in their furious raspings in the fourth-movement tango, while their ultra-English ‘O Albion’ sixth movement, an endless succession of Elgarian suspensions and imitations, is never played for laughs but instead sounds sincere and intensely moving. And it’s there in The Four Quarters, themed around the times of the day, in which the players match Adès’s Britten-like lucidity with enormously characterful performances, by turns joyful and introspective. They bring the Brahmsian lyricism of his Piano Quintet firmly to the fore, conveying his multilayered irrational time signatures (3/5 against 3/7 against 4/6, anyone?) with pinpoint accuracy, yet never letting them detract from the rugged beauty of the music.

Adès himself, who joins them for the Quintet, is sometimes rather clangorous in a hammered-out piano part but it doesn’t detract from the disc’s exceptional performances, captured in warm, vivid sound.“ (The Strad)

The Calder Quartet
Thomas Adès, piano




The Calder Quartet
performs a broad range of repertoire at an exceptional level, always striving to channel and fulfill the composer’s vision. Already the choice of many leading composers to perform their works, the group’s distinctive approach is exemplified by a musical curiosity brought to everything they perform.

Winners of the prestigious 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant, they are widely known for the discovery, commissioning, recording and mentoring of some of today’s best emerging composers (over 25 commissioned works to date). The group continues to work and collaborate with artists across musical genres, spanning the ranges of the classical and contemporary music world, as well as rock and film/tv soundtracks, and in venues ranging from museums to Carnegie and the Hollywood Bowl. Inspired by innovative American artist Alexander Calder, the Calder Quartet’s desire to bring immediacy and context to the works they perform creates an artfully crafted musical experience.

Recent and upcoming highlights include Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, multiple performances at Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Salzburg Festival, Donaueschingen Festival, Frankfurt Alte Oper, Tonhalle Zurich, IRCAM Paris, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical Madrid, a residency at the Perth International Arts Festival and returns to Los Angeles’ Disney Hall and the Ojai Music Festival on a program curated by Peter Sellars. Their long list of collaborators include the Cleveland Orchestra, LA Philharmonic, Thomas Adès, Peter Eötvös, Barbara Hannigan, Audrey Luna, Johannes Moser, Joshua Bell, Edgar Meyer and Danielle DeNiese.

The quartet has been featured in extremely popular TV shows such as the Late Show with David Letterman, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic, the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, Late Night with Jimmy Kimmel, and the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

In 2011 the Calder Quartet launched a non-profit dedicated to furthering its efforts in commissioning, presenting, recording, and education, collaborating with the Getty Museum, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, and the Barbican Centre in London. The Calder Quartet formed at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music and continued studies at the Colburn Conservatory of Music with Ronald Leonard, and at the Juilliard School, receiving the Artist Diploma in Chamber Music Studies as the Juilliard Graduate Resident String Quartet. The quartet regularly conducts master classes and has taught at the Colburn School, the Juilliard School, Cleveland Institute of Music, University of Cincinnati College Conservatory and USC Thornton School of Music.



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