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The first in a series of Ten quartets commissioned by the Naxos recording company. First performed at Wigmore Hall, London in Oct 2002 by the Maggini Quartet. A convenient, miniature-sized version of the score intended for study. Performance parts are ava

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A substantial work for four soli, SATB chorus and orchestra, using text from the translation of Stephen Mitchell's The Book Of Job<-i>.Like Vaughan Williams in his Job: A Masque for Dancing<-i>, Davies was inspired in part by William Blake's 21 en

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A ghost story telling of the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in the Hebrides.This is a mystery story in the form of a chamber opera. The prologue is set as a court of enquiry into the unexplained disappearance of the three keepers f

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This work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It was first performed on 2nd May 2000 at the Barbican Centre, London, conducted by Peter Maxwell Davies. Duration c.23 minutes.



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Chapters: Joy Division, Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner, Russell Watson, Peter Maxwell Davies, Graham Gouldman, Elkie Brooks, Happy Mondays, Mike Walker, Mark E. Smith, Shaun Ryder, Clinton Ford, the Invisible Girls, Mark "Bez" Berry, Allan Clarke, King of the Slums, Sarah Whatmore, Paul Davis, Craig Gill. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 117. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band primarily consisted of Ian Curtis (vocals and occasional guitar ... Read more

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Chapters: Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Peter Maxwell Davies, Martin Roscoe, Elizabeth Harwood, Ronald Stevenson, Jane Eaglen, Simon Keenlyside, Marjorie Thomas, Stephen Hough, Jean Hindmarsh, Rosalind Plowright, John Ogdon, Peter Butterfield, Heather Slade-Lipkin, Keiron Anderson, Christopher Gayford, Elgar Howarth, Norman Kay, John Tomlinson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 104. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alexander Goehr (born 10 August 1932 in Berlin) is an English composer and academic. Alexander Goehr - Jerusalem, 2007Goehr was born in Berlin in 1932, the son of the conductor and Schoenberg pupil Walter Goehr. In his early twenties he emerged as a central figure in the Manchester School of post-war British composers. In 195556 he joined Oliver Messiaen's masterclass in Paris. Although in the early sixties Goehr was considered a leader of the avant-garde, his oblique attitude to modernism and to any movement or school whatsoever soon became evident. In a sequence of works including the Piano Trio (1966), the opera Arden Must Die (1966), the music-theatre piece Triptych (196870), the orchestral Metamorphosis/Dance (1974), and the String Quartet No. 3 (1975-76), Goehr's personal voice was revealed, arising from a highly individual use of the serial method and a fusion of elements from his double heritage of Schoenberg and Messiaen. Since the luminous 'white-note' Psalm IV setting of 1976, Goehr has urged a return to more traditional ways of composing, using familiar materials as objects of musical speculation, in contrast to the technological priorities of much present-day musical research. Alexander Goehr was born on 10 August 1932 in Berlin, and his family moved to Britain when he was only a few months old. Alexander came from an extremely musical family: his mot...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=594873 ... Read more

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Title: Max: The Life and Music of Peter Maxwell Davies.
Author: Mary C. Francis
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1996
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: v53Issue: n1Page: p79(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ballets by Peter Maxwell Davies, Operas by Peter Maxwell Davies, the Lighthouse, Taverner, Strathclyde Concertos, the Doctor of Myddfai, Resurrection, Eight Songs for a Mad King, Mr Emmet Takes a Walk, Naxos Quartets, the Martyrdom of St Magnus, Caroline Mathilde, Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise. Excerpt: The Lighthouse is a chamber opera with words and music by Peter Maxwell Davies. The scenario was inspired by a true story. In December 1900 a lighthouse supply ship called the Hesperus, based in Stromness, Orkney, went on its routine tour of duty to the Flannan Isles in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The lighthouse was empty - all three beds and the table looked as if they had been left in a hurry and the lamp, though out, was in perfect working order, but the men had disappeared into thin air. The composer has taken liberties, and changed the name of the lighthouse to Fladda, this being not a usual name in the Western Isles of Scotland, to avoid offence or distress to any relatives of those concerned in the original incident. The lighthouse in question, located on Eilean Mor in the Flannan Isles It was first performed in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 2 September 1980 as part of the Edinburgh Festival. The singers were Neil Mackie (tenor), Michael Rippon (baritone) and David Wilson-Johnson (bass-baritone) with The Fires of London conducted by Richaed Dufallo. In 1983 the Boston Shakespeare Company presented a production directed by Peter Sellars featuring Michael Brown (tenor), Sanford Sylvan (baritone), Kenneth Bell (bass), conducted by David Hoose, video by Michael Nishball, costumes by Ellen McCartney and lighting by James F. Ingalls. Writing for New York Times, John Rockwell described the production as "superbly realized musically and thrillin... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9017645 ... Read more

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The second of the Quartets commissioned by the Naxos label was completed in January 2003. This work swings between nervous virtuosic energy to the serene calm of an extended Lento, with exotic harmonies reminiscent of Bartok, and is characterised by it's

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Corpus Christi, With Cat And Mouse<-i> is a setting of fragments selected from the Richard Hill Commonplace Book<-i>, an early 16th century manuscript in the library of Balliol College, Oxford. Commissioned by the Master and Fellows of Balliol Colle

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The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B? clarinet, it is usually pitched in B? (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B?), but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B? clarinet. Bass clarinets in other keys, notably C and A, also exist, but are very rare. Bass clarinets regularly perform in symphony orchestras, wind ensembles, and play an occasional solo role in contemporary music and jazz in particular. ... Read more

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Chapters: The Lighthouse, Taverner, the Doctor of Myddfai, Resurrection, Eight Songs for a Mad King, Mr Emmet Takes a Walk, the Martyrdom of St Magnus. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Lighthouse is a chamber opera with words and music by Peter Maxwell Davies. The scenario was inspired by a true story. In December 1900 a lighthouse supply ship called the Hesperus, based in Stromness, Orkney, went on its routine tour of duty to the Flannan Isles in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The lighthouse was empty - all three beds and the table looked as if they had been left in a hurry and the lamp, though out, was in perfect working order, but the men had disappeared into thin air. The composer has taken liberties, and changed the name of the lighthouse to Fladda, this being not a usual name in the Western Isles of Scotland, to avoid offence or distress to any relatives of those concerned in the original incident. The lighthouse in question, located on Eilean Mor in the Flannan Isles It was first performed in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 2 September 1980 as part of the Edinburgh Festival. The singers were Neil Mackie (tenor), Michael Rippon (baritone) and David Wilson-Johnson (bass-baritone) with The Fires of London conducted by Richaed Dufallo. In 1983 the Boston Shakespeare Company presented a production directed by Peter Sellars featuring Michael Brown (tenor), Sanford Sylvan (baritone), Kenneth Bell (bass), conducted by David Hoose, video by Michael Nishball, costumes by Ellen McCartney and lighting by James F. Ingalls. Writing for New York Times, John Rockwell described the production as "superbly realized musically and thrilling as theater." The opera opens with a prologue in which three officers (tenor, baritone and bass) address a board of inquir...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9017645 ... Read more

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Chapters: Peter Maxwell Davies. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 152. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE (born 8 September 1934) is an English composer and conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music. His surname is Davies. Davies was born in Salford, Lancashire, the son of Thomas and Hilda Davies. He took piano lessons and composed from an early age. After education at Leigh Boys Grammar School, Davies studied at the University of Manchester and at the Royal Manchester College of Music (amalgamated into the Royal Northern College of Music in 1973), where his fellow students included Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Elgar Howarth and John Ogdon. Together they formed New Music Manchester, a group committed to contemporary music. After graduating in 1956, he studied on an Italian government scholarship for a year with Goffredo Petrassi in Rome before working as Director of Music at Cirencester Grammar School from 1959 to 1962. In 1962, he secured a Harkness Fellowship at Princeton University, with the help of Aaron Copland and Benjamin Britten, where he studied with Roger Sessions, Milton Babbitt and Earl Kim. He then moved to Australia, where he was Composer in Residence at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide from 1965-66. He then returned to the United Kingdom and moved to the Orkney Islands, initially to Hoy in 1971, and later to Sanday, where he lives with his partner Colin Parkinson. Orkney (particularly its capital, Kirkwall) hosts the St Magnus Festival, an arts festival founded by Davies in 1977. He frequently uses it to premiere new works (often played by the local school orchestra). Davies was Artistic Director of the Dartington Summer School from 1979 to 1984 and has held a number of posts. From 1992 to 2002...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=392501 ... Read more

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The third in the series of ten Quartets commissioned by the Naxos recording company. First performed at Wigmore Hall, London in Oct 2003 by the Maggini Quartet. A convenient, miniature-sized version of the score intended for study.Performance parts are

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This work was commissioned by the Naxos Recording Company, and is the fifth in a series of ten quartets. It was first performed on 20th October 2004 at the Wigmore Hall, London by the Maggini Quartet.

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Peter Maxwell Davies wrote this set of six short pieces in 1993 as a gift for a friend (a double bass player and composer from the BBC Philharmonic)who was celebrating the birth of his daughter. Despite the reason for writing them being most 'occasional',

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This work was commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra to celebrate its 25th anniversary. The first performance was given on 3rd December 1998 at Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, by Lisa Tyrrell (Soprano), Margaret McDonald (Mezzo), Neil Mackie (Tenor) and

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