Maxwell Davies: Symphony No. 3 & Cross Lane Fair

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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 is,... — Sunday Times, 15th July 2012 More…

Release Date: 2nd Jul 2012
Catalogue No: 8572350
Label: Naxos
Length: 72 minutes

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Davies, Peter Maxwell: Symphony No. 3

Work length57:28

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BBC Philharmonic
Peter Maxwell Davies

I. Lento - Adagio - Andante - Moderato - Allegretto - Allegro moderato - Allegro - Allegro alla breve

Track length18:48

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II. Allegro

Track length8:57

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III. Allegro vivace: Scorrevole e bisbigliando

Track length7:40

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IV. Lento - Adagio flessible

Track length22:03

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Davies, Peter Maxwell: Cross Lane Fair

Work length14:41

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Mark Jordan, Rob Lea
BBC Philharmonic
Peter Maxwell Davies

Introduction -

Track length2:08

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Fairground -

Track length1:03

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Ghost Train -

Track length1:58

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Transition -

Track length0:45

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The Bearded Lady and the Five-Legged Sheep -

Track length1:39

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Transition -

Track length0:29

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The Juggler -

Track length2:34

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Transition -

Track length0:50

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The Roundabout

Track length3:15

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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.

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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.

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