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成人快手 SO - Peter Maxwell Davies Studio Concert

Live from Maida Vale, 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra under Michael Seal. Peter Maxwell Davies: Throstle's Nest Junction; A Spell for Green Corn (Chloe Hanslip: violin); Worldes Blis.

Live from Maida Vale Studios.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

The 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra celebrates Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's upcoming 80th birthday in a live concert from London's Maida Vale Studios.

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Throstle's Nest Junction (London Premiere)
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: A Spell for Green Corn - The MacDonald Dances (London Premiere)

c. 8.10pm MUSIC INTERVAL - The 成人快手 Singers perform Maxwell Davies's choral masterpiece, Westerlings

c. 8.30pm
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Worldes Blis

Chlo毛 Hanslip, violin
成人快手 Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal, conductor

A concert devoted to the music of one of the UK's most important and individual composers, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, with a programme demonstrating the breadth of his work. Two works from the 1990s make up the first part of the concert, starting with the tone poem Throstle's Nest Junction, described as a memento of a Lancashire childhood. This is followed by A Spell for Green Corn, with soloist Chlo毛 Hanslip, inspired by an ancient Orkney rite of blessing crops. The concert's finale is his monumental masterwork Worldes Blis, a piece which Davies himself conducted for the notorious world premiere with the 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra in 1969.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Westerlings

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra.

Credit

Role Contributor
Performer 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra

Broadcast

  • Thu 19 Jun 2014 19:30

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