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Composer of the Week: Peter Maxwell Davies

BBC Radio 3
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2/5. Early Music
Peter Maxwell Davies talks to Donald Macleod about the works written before his first visit to the Orkneys, the attraction for him of early music, and his astonishingly creative but turbulent year of 1969. Purcell Fantasia upon One Note Fires of London, conductor Peter Maxwell Davies
Maxwell Davies Points and Dances (Taverner, Act 1); Eight Songs for a Mad King, Nos 6-8 Julius Eastman (baritone), Fires of London, conducted by the composer St Thomas Wake BBC Philharmonic conducted by the composer
(Repeated on Monday at 12 midnight)

Contributors

Talks:
Peter Maxwell Davies
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Conductor:
Peter Maxwell Davies
Conductor:
Maxwell Davies
Source: Radio Times

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