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Music Matters: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

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19/03/2016

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

Tom Service with a tribute to the composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

Tom Service with a tribute to the composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Leading figures in the musical world assess his life and music.

Tom Service presents a tribute to the composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Leading figures in the musical world assess his life and music, including the writer and broadcaster Paul Driver, conductor Oliver Knussen and composer Alexander Goehr. Plus we hear from Max himself, in an interview from his home in the Orkney Islands, recorded in 2009.

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