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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Master and Maverick

Tribute to the provocative composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who died in March, featuring extraordinary performances and documentary from the 麻豆官网首页入口's television archive.

Tom Service presents a tribute to the provocative composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who died in March at the age of 81. Extraordinary performances and documentary from the 麻豆官网首页入口's television archive that follow Max's journey from his radical origins as an Angry Young Man in the 1950s to his later life and work on his adopted home in the Orkney Islands and his surprise appointment as Master of the Queen's Music in 2004. With performances by the Fires of London, the Sixteen and the 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra.

1 hour

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Sun 3 Apr 2016 19:00
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Music Played

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness

    Performer: Peter Maxwell Davies.
    • Naxos.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Sonata for Trumpet and Piano

    Performer: Graham Ashton. Performer: John Lenehan.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Prolation

    Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Kok.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Five Pieces for Piano

    Performer: Peter Maxwell Davies.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    O Magnum Mysterium

    Performer: The Cirencester Grammar School Choir and Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Pierrot Lunaire

    Performer: The Pierrot Players. Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Purcell Pavan No. 1

    Performer: The Fires of London. Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Eight Songs For A Mad King

    Performer: The Fires of London. Performer: Donald Bell.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    St. Thomas Wake: Foxtrot for Orchestra

    Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    The Peat Cutters

    Performer: National Youth Brass Band of Scotland and the National Youth Orchestra.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Ave Maris Stella

    Performer: The Fires of London.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    An Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise

    Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Performer: George McIlwham.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    The Beltane Fire

    Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Philharmonic.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Orkney Saga No. 5

    Performer: The Orkney Chorus.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Symphony No. 7

    Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Philharmonic. Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Symphony No. 8 (Antarctic)

    Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Philharmonic.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Ojai Festival Overture

    Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Cata Sands (Six Sanday Tunes No.4)

    Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    A Little Birthday Music

    Performer: 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra. Librettist: Andrew Motion.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Ebb of Winter

    Performer: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Gernon.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    O Magnum Mysterium

    Performer: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.

Credits

Presenter Tom Service
Executive Producer Mark Cooper
Producer Andy King-Dabbs

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