Peter Maxwell Davies: Music for Brass

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Devised as authentic chamber music for instruments essentially outside that tradition, the Brass Quintet, especially in its immensely measured central adagio, has a searching introspective quality... — Sunday Times, 6th March 2016 More…

Release Date: 6th Nov 2015
Catalogue No: NI5936
Label: Nimbus
Length: 68 minutes

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Davies, Peter Maxwell: The Pole Star March

Work length3:44

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Davies, Peter Maxwell: Litany for a ruined chapel between sheep and shore

Work length10:31

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I. Adagio Recitando

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II. Lento

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III. Presto Vigoroso

Track length2:22

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Davies, Peter Maxwell: Sea Eagle for solo horn, Op. 103

Work length8:31

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I. Adagio

Track length3:30

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II. Lento

Track length3:18

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III. Presto Molto

Track length1:43

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Davies, Peter Maxwell: Tallis, Four Voluntaries

Work length7:28

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I. Veni Redemtpor gentium

Track length1:55

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II. Ex More Docti Mistico

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III. Ecce Tempus

Track length1:24

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IV. Presto Molto

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Davies, Peter Maxwell: Fanfare for Lowry

Work length3:53

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Davies, Peter Maxwell: Brass Quintet

Work length34:40

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I. Adagio - Allegro

Track length9:05

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II. Adagio flessibile

Track length16:01

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III. Allegro vivace

Track length9:34

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Founded by John Wallace in 1986 to explore and perform the extensive brass repertory, The Wallace Collection is one of the world's pioneering brass ensembles with an international reputation for innovative programming. After a twelve-year sabbatical, the ensemble was relaunched in May 2014 at a Park Lane Group concert in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Currently it aims to achieve the extraordinary and exceptional in brass through focussing on the music of today in close juxtaposition with the lost repertory of the 19th century. Brass instruments have been prominent in Peter Maxwell’s Davies’s music since his Op. 1, a trumpet sonata he wrote the year he turned twenty-one. The focus of this record, however, is on music from a long quarter-century later: the Brass Quintet he produced in 1981 and a spray of pieces that came in the immediate wake of that major effort, including not only two smaller items for the same formation but also a horn solo that, though so different in scale, is related in substance to the quintet. Trumpet tunes continue the story into the next two decades.

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6th March 2016

Devised as authentic chamber music for instruments essentially outside that tradition, the Brass Quintet, especially in its immensely measured central adagio, has a searching introspective quality hardly to be found elsewhere.

Classical Music January 2106

chief among [these works] is the 1981 brass quintet: cast in three huge movements, and taking up over half the well-filled CD, it casts a lasting spell in this definitive performance

Peter Maxwell Davies: Music for Brass

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