This album from the Los Angeles-based Calder Quartet presents Thomas Adès’s award-winning first work for string quartet, Arcadiana, and the premiere recording of The Four Quarters. For the Piano Quintet Adès himself joins them at the piano.
SIGCD413 56 minutes 14 seconds
'A first recording here for The Four Quarters (2011), a masterly reflection on the diurnal cycle that ends with the fantastical The Twenty-Fifth Hour … each piece is full of memorable ideas and i ... 'Part of the fascination of Thomas Adès’s chamber music is that it intrigues the mind with its science, while transporting the listener to imaginary places…The Calder Quartet perform all three with en ...