London born composer, pianist, and conductor Thomas Adès is known for his extensive work with world’s leading orchestras, opera companies, and festivals. This album features performances of three of his operatic and ballet suites conducted by Adès himself. The Luxury Suite is adapted from the opera Powder Her Face and was premiered by the Berlin Philharmonic in 2018. Adès’s 1995 Powder Her Face charts the life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, whose husband memorably divorced her on 88 counts of adultery. Five Spells from The Tempest, is an orchestral suite drawn from Adès’s 2003 opera based on Shakespeare’s play. Inferno Suite, based on Dante’s The Divine Comedy, was commissioned in 2019/20 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Royal Ballet and centers on the protagonist’s journey through the fires of hell.