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SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Maxwell Davies: Caroline Mathilde (concert suite) / Threnody on a Plainsong for Michael Vyner / etc BBC Philharmonic, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies [ Collins Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/1991 ] Originally recorded in 1991 |
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SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Maxwell Davies: Symphony No. 1 BBC Philharmonic, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies [ Collins Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/1995 ] "very good modern recordings and fine playing...Great fun; a reminder of the composer's relaxed, more genial side" MusicWeb |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Rape Of Lucretia Jean Rigby, Nigel Robson, Catherine Pierard, Donald Maxwell / City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2014 ] "Hickox allows his singers plenty of space with no loss of tension; they respond impressively, with Catherine Pierard exceptional as the Female Chorus." BBC Music Magazine, October 2014 **** |
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SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Maxwell Davies: The Lighthouse Ian Comboy, Christopher Keyte, Neil Mackie / BBC Philharmonic, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies [ Collins Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ] "Loosely based on a true story, the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers from a remote island in 1900, it is gripping from beginning to end." |
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GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors (Complete opera) Lora Haywood, John Dobson, Donald Maxwell, with James Rainbird as Amahl. Royal Opera House Covent Garden. David Syrus [ That's Entertainment / CD - released 1/Mar/2004 ] "Recorded under the supervision of the composer himself, this is a fresh and highly dramatic performance, very well sung and marked by atmospheric digital sound of striking realism." *** Three Stars Penguin Stereo Guide |
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ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Sullivan: On Shore and Sea / Kenilworth Sally Silver (sop); Nico Darmanin (ten); Louise Winter (mezzo); Donald Maxwell (bass-bar) / Orchestra of Victorian Opera Northwest, Richard Bonynge [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] "Rousing applause for Dutton and these musicians for this disc of first commercial recordings. A red letter day for these are substantial and very rare Sullivan works. They emerge in good heart under veteran Richard Bonynge's life-ebullient convictio |
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Valerie Masterson, Donald Maxwell, Diana Montague, David Rendall & Studio Cast, Owen Edwards (conductor)
Wright/Forrest/Grieg: Song Of Norway [ Thats Entertainment / 2 CD Box Set - released 15/Mar/2010 ] Song of Norway is an operetta written in 1944 by Robert Wright and George Forrest, adapted from the music of Edvard Grieg and the book by Milton Lazarus and Homer Curran. |
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ALEXANDER BORODIN / ROBERT WRIGHT & GEORGE FORREST
Borodin: Kismet [plus songs from 'Timbuktu'] Valerie Masterson & Donald Maxwell / 1990 Studio Cast [ TER / CD - released 17/May/1990 ] Kismet is a musical adapted by Charles Lederer and Luther Davis from the 1911 play of the same name by Edward Knoblock, with lyrics and musical adaptation (as well as some original music) by Robert Wright and George Forrest. The music was mostly... |
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Valerie Masterson, Donald Maxwell, Richard van Allan, Judy Kaye / Philharmonia Orchestra, John Owen Edwards
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kismet - selected highlights [cast recording] [ Showtime! / CD - released 29/Jun/1995 ] A Studio Cast recording from 1990 |
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Joe Armon-Jones & Maxwell Owin
Archetype (LP) [ Warp / 2 LP - released 23/Jun/2023 ] Archetype is an exorcism of South London's underground spirit. It's a sound-world which draws on its ancestral echoes as equally as it captures the pulse of a city on the edge of evolution. The twelve-track collaborative record is the product of two... |