It is difficult to imagine a better celebration of the immense spiritual and historical richness of Yuletide than this multi-faceted and deeply rewarding disc. Accompanied by Andrew Lawrence-King, who plays the Irish harp, Baroque harp, and psaltery with exquisite grace and refined expressiveness, the crystalline voices of the Anonymous 4 weave an ...
The works on this Hyperion Peter Maxwell Davies disc are all new; outside of the short organ work Reliqui domum meum composed in 1996, all of this music was composed in the opening years of the twenty-first century. The Missa parvula is a radiant and numinous piece scored for mostly unison children's voices and organ, whereas Maxwell Davies' ...
The King's Singers, the male vocal sextet, perform with extraordinary vocal blend, purity of tone, technical security, and interpretive sensitivity. This CD brings together choral music from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century that is related to the broad themes of landscape and time. The collection contains texts related to specific ...
Julian Bream urged several British composers to compose for the guitar, to expand both the repertoire and the instrument's possibilities beyond the styles and conventions of Spanish guitar music. Yet it is odd to note how they turned, almost reflexively, to Spanish music for inspiration, and how many of their pieces retained its most salient ...
If one work can be said to have secured Peter Maxwell Davies' international reputation, it would have to be his iconoclastic Eight Songs for a Mad King, a sensation when first performed in 1969 with actor Roy Hart and the Pierrot Players. This recording features Julius Eastman in Hart's role, with the ensemble that performed at the premiere ...
By commissioning 10 string quartets to be released on five discs, record label Naxos gave Peter Maxwell Davies a remarkably broad canvass on which to experiment and play. The freedom that such a project offered allowed the composer to stretch beyond the standard conventions of the string quartet literature and make forays into uncharted, if not ...
The ten Naxos String Quartets of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies were commissioned by the label as a series, to be performed and recorded by the Maginni Quartet and issued in five volumes. One might have supposed that Maxwell Davies would have resorted to using Classical quotations and parodies, since the practice of composing string quartets in sets ...
The release of Peter Maxwell Davies' Naxos Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 is a truly auspicious occasion. Dubbed Master of the Queen's Music and having reached the personal milestone of age 70, Maxwell Davies is experiencing an enthusiastic resurgence of interest in his work that even he could not have imagined just five years prior. This was when the ...
You might expect that a disc called Britannia with a photograph of the white cliffs of Dover on the cover would start with a Pomp and Circumstance March by Elgar. And so it does on this 2007 Telarc release with Donald Runnicles leading the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. But while the disc starts with a Pomp and Circumstance March, it's not No. 1 but ...
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