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Composer of the Week: Nicholas Maw

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(Born 1935). With Donald Macleod , featuring contributions from the Composer.
, Nicholas Maw celebrates his 65th birthday next month. This week's programmes survey the achievement of a composer who has established an individual voice the hard way - in defiance of fashion and influence - but whose neo-Romantic language now seems increasingly in tune with the new spirit in music.
1: With Mouth, Word and Hearte Free Our Lady's Song Elizabethan Singers, conductor Louis Halsey
After Darkness (The Voice of Love)
Sarah Walker (mezzo), Roger Vignoles (piano) Life Study Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
Scenes and Arias Judith Howarth (soprano), Susan Parry (mezzo), Rebecca de Pont
Davies (contralto), BBCSO, conductor Rumon Gamba Producer Piers Burton-Page

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Nicholas Maw
Conductor:
Louis Halsey
Unknown:
Sarah Walker
Piano:
Roger Vignoles
Conductor:
Neville Marriner
Conductor:
Arias Judith Howarth
Soprano:
Susan Parry
Unknown:
Rebecca de Pont
Conductor:
Rumon Gamba
Producer:
Piers Burton-Page
Source: Radio Times

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