Search - DoelenKwartet Rotterdam, Dimitri Bassilakis :: Thomas Ades: Streichquartette, Klavierquintett

Thomas Adès studied piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and read music at King s College, Cambridge. Adès has won numerous awards, including the Léonie Sonning Music Prize and the Grawemeyer Award, of which he is the youngest ever recipient. His works have been established as a kind of modern classic , appearing several times on recordings and entering the repertoire of many ensembles. The range of reference in this and much of Adès s best-known music has yielded for the composer a reputation as a kind of postmodern ironist , whose enormous technical gifts, some have argued, disguise a lack of real imagination and an over-reliance on the music of others. But Adès s musical idiom is always recognizably his own! The DoelenKwartet, ranking among the leading quartets in the realm of contemporary classical music enhanced by the exceptional pianist Dimitri Vassilakis from Ensemble Intercontemporain, interprets Adès works with passion, history and intensity attributes that characterize Adès unique compository manuscript.