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25 de may. de 2024 · More so than his Manchester School compatriots Harrison Birtwistle and Alexander Goehr, Davies’s music exemplifies the tensions and range of influences found in post-war British music, and his compositions remain some of the most celebrated and performed to this day.
29 de may. de 2024 · Monitor takes a fascinating look at two outstanding and very different young composers, Peter Maxwell Davies and Dudley Moore. BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 26 February 1961. 1964: Two ...
Hace 6 días · St Magnus Festival, founded by long-time resident Peter Maxwell Davies, looks to Orkney’s Nordic roots this year with a residency by the Swedish string orchestra, Musica Vitae. Oswald’s Sonata from the Scottish Baroque meets music by JS Bach and his son framing a new cello concerto by current festival director Alasdair Nicolson.
28 de may. de 2024 · Perhaps less well-known is Brown’s dramatic work, which included radio plays and opera libretti, such as The Martyrdom of St Magnus, a collaboration with his friend, the composer Peter Maxwell Davies. An autobiography, For the Islands I Sing, was posthumously published in 1997.
11 de may. de 2024 · Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, author of historical plays, gave his King George III the line “I’m not ill, I’m nervous” 5 in his celebrated one-man show, reflecting the thinking at the time that a physical disease of nerves, especially in the upper-classes, was more a sign of refined sensibilities than mental illness. 6 The distinction was crucial.
24 de may. de 2024 · Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Second Symphony is his 'Sea Symphony', a complex, virtuosic work that explores in absorbing, increasingly dynamic fashion, the ocean's proximity and what the composer calls 'the architecture of it's forms'. Both themes and orchestration are masterly.
28 de may. de 2024 · Together with much material relating to Mackay Brown's extensive artistic collaboration with the composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Edinburgh University holds the following works specifically written to be set to music by Maxwell Davies.
