RIP Peter Maxwell Davies

[Rarebird]

I just read the news British composer Peter Maxwell Davies has died.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...s-dies-aged-81
It seems these are really sad times for music.

[JKL2000]

About the closed Phife Dawg thread, why was it shut down just because of MY non-controversial views? Why should viukkis's view, for example, be marginalized? This makes no sense - the thread was there - deal with it.

[Rarebird]

And this thread never got any replies at all. And now it's used to complain about the shutdown of another thread?

I'm not going to start a thread about the dead of Johan Cruijff.

[Dave (in MA)]

About the closed Phife Dawg thread, why was it shut down just because of MY non-controversial views? Why should viukkis's view, for example, be marginalized? This makes no sense - the thread was there - deal with it.

JKL2000? Never heard of him.

I'm a complete ignoramus about classical but the middle section of Orkney Wedding with Sunrise sounds familiar. Was it used in some movie, or did I just happen to hear it someplace, I wonder?

[JKL2000]

And this thread never got any replies at all. And now it's used to complain about the shutdown of another thread?

I'm not going to start a thread about the dead of Johan Cruijff.

Hopefully the moderators won't try to judge whether or not you're justified in starting this RIP thread.

[Dave (in MA)]

Why, does she have a history of getting under the skin of the moderators?

[JKL2000]

Why, does she have a history of getting under the skin of the moderators?

No, but they sometimes try to gauge how much of a connection the poster has with the deceased, which is, frankly, upsetting. One might act nonchalant, and actually be deeply hurt.

[grego]

I just read the news British composer Peter Maxwell Davies has died.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...s-dies-aged-81
It seems these are really sad times for music.

Last year I bought the 2CD Naxos box of his music...RIP...

[strawberrybrick]

One of Stomu Yamash'ta's earliest recording was a piece by Sir Davies. Time to dig out Dark Angels.

[interbellum]

One of Stomu Yamash'ta's earliest recording was a piece by Sir Davies. Time to dig out Dark Angels.

Didn't know that. Listening to the clip below you can tell this was before Yamash'ta expanded his instruments with keyboards.
I guess this was too experimental for the Esoteric-re-release campaign.

[rcarlberg]

*Eight Songs for a Mad King
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Ground breaking stuff. Maxwell Davies actually died back on the 14th I see. MSM didn't pay much attention.

[rcarlberg]

I'm a complete ignoramus about classical but the middle section of Orkney Wedding with Sunrise sounds familiar. Was it used in some movie, or did I just happen to hear it someplace, I wonder?

The middle section is an open homage to Aaron Copland and Ferde Grofe, maybe you're hearing echoes of them.

[Fracktured]

A great composer whose work I could never get into. RIP


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[Reid]

Naxos has a good series of his recordings. I believe many of these are re-issues from the Collins catalog. I like the first symphony. Simon Rattle recorded it in 1978, and Maxwell-Davies conducted another recording in 1994. This is the composer's rendition.