Ades: Tevot; Violin Concerto; Couperin; Dances

"Tevot" means "arks" in Hebrew but another meaning is also "bars in a piece of music." In a The Guardian interview with Tom Service Adès said: "I liked the idea that the bars of the music were carrying the notes as a sort of family through the piece. And they do, because without bars, you'd have musical chaos. But I was thinking about the ark, the vessel, in the piece as the earth. (...) It sounds a bit colossal, but it's the idea of the ship of the world. "The work was commissioned by the Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker and the Carnegie Hall Corporation. The work was premiered by the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle at the Philharmonie in Berlin in February 2007 and received its US premiere, also with Berliner Philharmoniker and Rattle, at Carnegie Hall in November 2007. To Sir Simon Rattle, Adès "may be the most extravagantly gifted of (young UK composers)" and he and the Berliner Philharmoniker program his works frequently.

In September 2005 his Violin Concerto for Anthony Marwood was premiered at the Berliner Festspiele and the BBC Proms, with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Thomas Adès' baton.

Since the release of Adès' opera The Tempest on EMI Classics in June 2009, the recording has gathered attention on a global scale. In France, the disc was recently awarded the prestigious Diapason d'Or de l'année. Reviews in general have been glowing with praise and the album was a `Critic's Choice' pick in Opera News.