Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Master and Maverick
Tribute to the provocative composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who died in March, featuring extraordinary performances and documentary from the 麻豆社's television archive.
Tom Service presents a tribute to the provocative composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who died in March at the age of 81. Extraordinary performances and documentary from the 麻豆社's television archive that follow Max's journey from his radical origins as an Angry Young Man in the 1950s to his later life and work on his adopted home in the Orkney Islands and his surprise appointment as Master of the Queen's Music in 2004. With performances by the Fires of London, the Sixteen and the 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra.
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Peter Maxwell Davies - Music in Camera
Duration: 01:19
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Farewell to Stromness
Performer: Peter Maxwell Davies.- Naxos.
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Sonata for Trumpet and Piano
Performer: Graham Ashton. Performer: John Lenehan. -
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Prolation
Performer: 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Kok. -
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Five Pieces for Piano
Performer: Peter Maxwell Davies. -
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Peter Maxwell Davies
O Magnum Mysterium
Performer: The Cirencester Grammar School Choir and Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies. -
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Arnold Schoenberg
Pierrot Lunaire
Performer: The Pierrot Players. Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies. -
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Purcell Pavan No. 1
Performer: The Fires of London. Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies. -
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Eight Songs For A Mad King
Performer: The Fires of London. Performer: Donald Bell. -
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Peter Maxwell Davies
St. Thomas Wake: Foxtrot for Orchestra
Performer: 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves. -
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Peter Maxwell Davies
The Peat Cutters
Performer: National Youth Brass Band of Scotland and the National Youth Orchestra. -
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Ave Maris Stella
Performer: The Fires of London. -
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Peter Maxwell Davies
An Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise
Performer: 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Performer: George McIlwham. -
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Peter Maxwell Davies
The Beltane Fire
Performer: 麻豆社 Philharmonic. -
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Orkney Saga No. 5
Performer: The Orkney Chorus. -
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Symphony No. 7
Performer: 麻豆社 Philharmonic. Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies. -
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Symphony No. 8 (Antarctic)
Performer: 麻豆社 Philharmonic. -
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Ojai Festival Overture
Performer: 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin. -
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Cata Sands (Six Sanday Tunes No.4)
Performer: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies. -
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Peter Maxwell Davies
A Little Birthday Music
Performer: 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. Librettist: Andrew Motion. -
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Ebb of Winter
Performer: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Gernon. -
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Peter Maxwell Davies
O Magnum Mysterium
Performer: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Tom Service |
| Executive Producer | Mark Cooper |
| Producer | Andy King-Dabbs |