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impressive, both in the quality of the playing and the variety of the music…in Ysaye's Third Sonata she yields nothing to the finest recordings in her accuracy and passion, the recording capturing... — More…
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Maxwell Davies & Panufnik: Symphonies No. 10
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Markus Butter (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Sir Antonio Pappano
Highly charged fervour animates the symphony’s discourse on creativity. — More…
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Maxwell Davies: Suite from 'The Boyfriend', Suite from 'The Devils' & Other Works
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Peter Maxwell Davies (piano)
Aquarius, Nicholas Cleobury
In these vintage examples of early-to-middle-period Maxwell Davies, his fairly for popular dance-forms shines through his roguishly gaudy arrangements...Maxwell Davies's score [for The Devils]... — More…
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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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Maxwell Davies - Sacred choral music
Robert Quinney (organ)
Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Martin Baker
Under David Hill and subsequently James O'Donnell the choir of Westminster Cathedral established a tradition of excellent recordings for Hyperion. That tradition is as strong as ever under Martin... — More…
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Maxwell Davies’s intensity of expression is here distilled into chamber music, by turns simple and complex, furious and tender…The disc closes with the composer’s very last work, a brief movement... — More…
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…these first two quartets certainly have a real sense of compulsion and creative urgency about their invention. …the Maggini Quartet sustains both with huge assurance; neither is easy to play... — More…
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Maxwell Davies: An Orkney Wedding & other works
Sean Shibe (guitar)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Ben Gernon
Aficionados will not mind hearing, yet again, those trademark Maxwell Davies devices of whooping horn glissandos and hyperactive chattering trumpets, especially when delivered with the Scottish... — More…
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The NMC Songbook
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Sopranos - 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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The jewels for me are his Vaughan Williams symphony recordings with the LSO: benchmark performances, most of them, from a conductor utterly in tune with the composer’s typical combination of... — More…
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