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Peter MAXWELL DAVIES
Naxos Quartets Nos. 9 & 10 Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] Peter Maxwell Davies is universally acknowledged as one of the foremost composers of our time, and is currently Master of the Queen's Music. His musical idiom has been described by The New York Times as a combination of 'medieval mysticism, modernist... |
DISCOVER CHAMBER MUSIC
Discover Chamber Music: a combination of illustrative music and a richly filled book Jeremy Siepmann (writer) / Various artists and performers [ Naxos Educational / 2 CD - released 15/Jul/2008 ] Chamber music is the most intimate, and arguably the most joyful and sociable, form of music-making in the world. It may also be the oldest, and its scope is all-embracing, ranging from infectious light entertainment to profound explorations of the... |
Peter MAXWELL DAVIES
Naxos Quartets Nos. 5 & 6 Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Apr/2006 ] "Historically, the Maxwell Davies 'Naxos' Quartets may well be Naxos' most significant achievement. The Maggini Quartet plays this fascinating music with the utmost dedication. Those of us lucky enough to have attnded some of the Wigmore Premieres... |
Peter MAXWELL DAVIES
Naxos Quartets Nos. 7 and 8 Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 15/May/2007 ] "Little did we know, when Max was commissioned by budget label Naxos to write 10 string quartets, what a late flowering odyssey it would be, all his mature skills coalescing within the intense discipline of Haydn-esque form. The Seventh Quartet is an... |
Sir Peter MAXWELL DAVIES
Maxwell Davies: Symphony No. 3 / Cross Lane Fair Rob Lea (bodhran) & Mark Jordan (northumbrian pipes) / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Maxwell Davies [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] "For a listener who is, as Susan Sontag called herself, "a zealot of seriousness", the rewards are deep and stirring." (Sunday Times) |
Peter MAXWELL DAVIES
A Portrait: His works / His life (2 CDs of music plus a detailed essay and photographs) Various orchestras, performers and conductors [ Naxos Educational / 2 CD - released 10/May/2008 ] Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is one of the most exciting and provocative composers at work in the world today. His Eight Songs for a Mad King set the dizzying pace for Britain's 1960s avant-garde, and the recent Naxos Quartets bear witness to his... |
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
Maxwell Davies: Linguae Ignis / Vesalii Icones / Fantasia on a Ground and Two Pavans Vittorio Ceccanti (solo cello) / Contempoartensemble / Mauro Ceccanti [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Oct/2011 ] "Vesalii Icones is one of Peter Maxwell Davies's supreme achievements." (The Guardian) |