Thomas Adès: Full of Noises: Conversations with Tom Service
“Energetic, honest, and warm, these conversations between friends reveal the intricacies of the creative process and a deep and abiding love of music.”—Publishers Weekly“Traverse[s] much of the geography of classical music, then and now . . . Arresting and memorable.”—Kirkus Reviews“Thomas Adès: Full of Noisesis a brilliant self-analytical plunge into the mind of one of our greatest artists, the composer Thomas Adès, for whom composing begins with musical notes slipping and sliding across a sheet of paper with a will of their own, and writing an opera feels like swimming alone in a deep ocean. This book is a probing guide to the creative process, as virtuosic in its way as one of Adès’s musical compositions.”—Peter Gelb, general manager, Metropolitan Opera“[Adès] has outgrown his status as the wunderkind of a vibrant British scene and become one of the most imposing figures in contemporary classical music.”—Alex Ross,The New Yorker“[Adès] is one of the most accomplished and complete musicians of his generation.”—Anthony Tommasini,The New York Times“Even as the UK is brimming with wonderful young composers, I think few would dispute that Tom Adès may be the most extravagantly gifted of them all.”—Sir Simon Rattle,Gramophone