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This Week's Guest:
Peter Maxwell Davies
Sunday 30 January
Repeated
Friday 4 February |
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Peter's Choice |
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Photo by John Batten
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Peter Maxwell Davies.
He is one of Britain's greatest living composers. His career has seen him go from enfant terrible and champion of new music, writing pieces such as Worldes Blis and Eight Songs for a Mad King, to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Master of the Queen's Music.
Peter Maxwell Davies was born in Salford, near Manchester, in 1934. Whilst studying at Manchester University and the Royal Manchester College of Music he formed the key friendships which were to influence his musical career - with Harrison Birtwhistle, Elgar Howarth, Alexander Goehr and John Ogdon.
It was during the sixties that Max composed some of his most influential works - including often cacophonous, expressionist pieces like Vesalii Icones, St. Thomas Wake and Worldes Blis. Music-theatre pieces like Eight Songs were groundbreaking in their use of drama, as well as music. He is fascinated by the mathematical structures and patterns that exist in nature - and tries to replicate them in his music. For more than thirty years he has lived on and been inspired by the Isles of Orkney where, he says, the sounds that surround him creep into his music almost without him knowing it.
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1.Victimae Paschali Laudes
Performer The Benedictine Monks of Silos
Composer Eustache du Caurroy
Publisher EMI
CD Title Canto Live
Track 3
Label EMI
Rec No:CDC5555042
2.Part of the 1st movement of Symphony No.38 in D/The Prague Symphony
Performer Staatskapelle Dresden conducted by Sir Colin Davis
Composer Mozart
Publisher Philips Classics
CD Title Mozart: Symphonies Nos 35 & 38
Track 5
Label Philips
Rec No:4161552
3.Lachrimae Antiquae
Performer Parley of Instruments Renaissance Violin Consort, directed by Peter Holman
Composer John Dowland
Publisher Hyperion
CD Title Lachrimae or Seaven Teares
Track 1
Label Hyperion
Rec No:CDA 66637
4.Yesterday
Performer Beatles
Composer Lennon/McCartney
Publiser Northern songs
CD Title Help
Track 13
Label Parlophone
Rec No:CDP7464392
5.Little Symphony, Op 15
Performer London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Colin Davis
Composer Alexander Goehr
Publisher Philips
CD Title Tippett: Concerto for Orchestra/A.Goehr: Little Symphony
Track LP side 2 trk.1
Label Philips
Rec No:SAL 3497
6.The Old Woman
Performer George Mackay Brown
Composer George Mackay Brown
Publisher Claddagh records
CD Title George Mackay Brown reads his poems
Track Side 1 trk 1
Label Cloddagh Records
Rec No:4CCA6
7 Stafford Yeomanry
Performer Band of the Corps of the Royal Engineers
Composer G Kingston
Publisher Chevron recordings
CD Title The Founders
Track 11
Label Chevron
Rec No:CHVCD12
8 Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony
Performer Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy
Composer Shostakovich
Publisher Decca
CD Title Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 9 & 15
Track 1
Label Decca
Rec No:430 2272
Record: Victimae Paschali Laudes
Book: Bhagavad-Gita (instead of the Bible)
Sanskrit dictionary
Luxury: Copper plate engravings of Durer's Passion
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