Arcadiana (ADES THOMAS) Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Partition] Faber Music Limited
Par ADES THOMAS. Composed in 1994 and now firmly established as part of the contemporary string quartet repertoire, Arcadiana is one of Thomas Adès’s early masterpieces. Six of its seven movements evoke various vanished or vanishing idylls. The odd-numbered movements are all aquatic. I might be the ballad of some lugubrious gondolier; III takes a title and a figuration from a Schubert Lied; in V a…
1901-2004Content : L. Lehmann: The swing - R. Vaughan Williams: The sky above the roof - R. Quilter: O mistress mine - H. Hughes: She moved thro' the fair - R. Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea - F. Bridge: E'en as a lovely flower - J. Ireland: Spring sorrow - I have twelve oxen - M. Mead: The ships of Arcady - F. Keel: Trade winds - H. Howells: The widow bird - R. Clarke: Infant Joy - E. Poston: Sweet…
