Davies, Peter Maxwell
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Special offer. The NMC Songbook
RecommendedSopranos - Claire Booth, Ailish Tynan, Elizabeth Atherton
Mezzo-sopranos - Susan Bickley, Loré Lixenberg, Jean Rigby
Countertenors - James Bowman, Michael Chance, Andrew Watts
Tenors - Andrew Kennedy, Daniel Norman, Benjamin Hulett
Baritones - Stefan Loges, Roderick Williams,...
…anyone listening to these discs will find many things to savour… It is, inevitably an eclectic mix, but, as in any well-planned song recital, the progressions and juxtapositions are continually... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th April 2009
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Contemporary
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Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale
Harrison Birtwistle (The Soldier), George Benjamin (The Devil), Dame Harriet Walter (narrator)
Royal Academy of Music, Oliver Knussen
It’s recorded in a way to convey to the maximum both the poetic detail and the expert pacing of Knussen’s finely-pointed reading, and to give full rein to Dame Harriet’s wonderfully free-spirited... — More…
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Special offer. Davies, Peter Maxwell: Taverner
Martyn Hill (Taverner), David Wilson-Johnson (Jester), Stephen Richardson (Henry VIII), Fiona Kimm (Virgin Mary), Michael Chance (Priest/God), Quentin Hayes (White Abbot) & Peter Sidhom (Richard Taverner)
Fretwork, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta Voices, His Majestys Sagbutts...
The opera is full… bitterly ironic juxtapositions, such as the 'holy' chanting from monks heard against the cynical Realpolitik of the negotiations between King and the Cardinal. Making the... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Opera
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Opera, April 2010, Recording of the Month
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As the baritone Kelvin Thomas played the ailing George III for Music Theatre Wales more than 100 times, working closely with Maxwell Davies to fine-tune his interpretation, what we hear accords... — More…
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Labyrinths
Victoria Brawn, Guy Schalom, Trish Clowes (saxophone), Nicky Spence (tenor), Francesca Moore-Bridger, Jim Moray, David Le Page, David Gordon, Mark Ashford, Diane Clarke, Eleanor Turner, Sally Harrop
Orchestra of the Swan, Daniele Rosina
A wildly eclectic programme, which makes for an exciting listen. While some of the ensemble playing could be tighter, the solos are ethereal and thoughtful. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Spatial Audio
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Maxwell Davies's matching panoply of stylistic musical masks is magpie-like even by his standards...there's no doubting the astonishing technical apparatus that makes it all happen. Davies's... — More…
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Naxos August 2014 New Release Sampler
Martyn Hill (tenor), Mary Carewe (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Ralph van Raat (piano), Patrick Messina (clarinet), Nicky Spence (tenor), Andrew Matthews-Owen (piano), Emanuele Buono (guitar), Juan José Mudarra Gámiz (piano), Joel Hastings (piano), Kirsten Sturm (organ), Raphael Wallfisch...
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