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Thomas Ades: Asyla (Hardcover)
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Thomas Ades: Asyla (Hardcover)
Series: Landmarks in Music Since 1950
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Thomas Ades (b. 1971) is an established international figure, both
as composer and performer, with popular and critical acclaim and
admiration from around the world. Edward Venn examines in depth one
of Ades's most significant works so far, his orchestral Asyla
(1997). Its blend of virtuosic orchestral writing, allusions to
various idioms, including rave music, and a musical rhetoric
encompassing both high modernism and lush romanticism is always
compelling and utterly representative of Ades's distinctive
compositional voice. The reception of Asyla since its premiere in
1997 by Sir Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra (CBSO) has been staggering. Instantly hailed as a
classic, Asyla won the 1997 Royal Philharmonic Society Award for
Large-Scale Composition. An internationally acclaimed recording
made of the work was nominated for the 1999 Mercury Music Prize,
and in 2000, Ades became the youngest composer (and only the third
British composer) to win the Grawemeyer prize, for Asyla. Asyla is
fast becoming a repertory item, rapidly gaining over one hundred
performances: a rare distinction for a contemporary work.
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