Maxwell Davies: Symphony No. 3 & Cross Lane Fair
Rob Lea (bodhran) & Mark Jordan (northumbrian pipes)
BBC Philharmonic, Peter Maxwell Davies
[The Symphony] is Davies at his most uncompromisingly brooding: intensity ingrained into every bar, a new kind of symphonic logic pursued with frightening relentlessness. For a listener who...
Maxwell Davies: Symphony No. 3 & Cross Lane Fair
Rob Lea (bodhran) & Mark Jordan (northumbrian pipes)
BBC Philharmonic, Peter Maxwell Davies
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[The Symphony] is Davies at his most uncompromisingly brooding: intensity ingrained into every bar, a new kind of symphonic logic pursued with frightening relentlessness. For a listener who...
About
Peter Maxwell Davies’s Symphony No. 3 is the product of symmetry and proportion based on the principles of Renaissance architecture. It is also a dynamic and thrilling seascape, one that both invokes medieval chant and summons up the violent buffeting of the waves, and the stirring cliff-face full of nesting birds. The dual inspirations of proportion and the natural world are seamlessly coalesced, and the Symphony teems with evocative sounds and brooding passages both expansive and time-defying in their beauty. Cross Lane Fair is a lighter work, scored for Northumbrian pipes, bodhran (an Irish drum) and chamber orchestra, inspired by the memories of a fairground that Maxwell Davies visited as a child.
Contents and tracklist
- Mark Jordan, Rob Lea
- BBC Philharmonic
- Peter Maxwell Davies
Awards and reviews
15th July 2012
[The Symphony] is Davies at his most uncompromisingly brooding: intensity ingrained into every bar, a new kind of symphonic logic pursued with frightening relentlessness. For a listener who is, as Susan Sontag called herself, “a zealot of seriousness”, the rewards are deep and stirring.
