We join the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet in concert to hear two short pieces. First, the quartet plays a wistful piece of music that Peter Maxwell Davies wrote as a kind of protest when construction of ...

On a midsummer day on Saturday, June 21, 1980, in a Victorian Hotel on the Orkney Islands, resident composer Peter Maxwell Davies and actress Eleanor Bron performed the composer’s newest piece — The ...

A clever programme brought a mounting sense of lost grip, from Errollyn Wallen voicing the shame of Hamlet’s Ophelia, to Schumann’s fraught love declaration, and Peter Maxwell Davies’s Eight Songs for ...

British composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has died aged 81. Renowned for his avant-garde and modern works, Davies was a former Master of the Queen's Music, a post considered the musical equivalent of ...

LONDON (AP) – Peter Maxwell Davies, an experimental, socially radical composer who served as Queen Elizabeth II’s official master of music, has died. He was 81. Davies’ management company, Intermusica ...

Naxos Quartet No 5, 'Lighthouses of Orkney and Shetland' Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer Maggini Qt Naxos Quartet No 6 Maggini Qt Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer ...

Dances from The Two Fiddlers Duccio Ceccanti, Violin Matteo Fossi, Piano Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer Sonata for Violin and Piano Bruno Canino, Piano Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer Duccio Ceccanti, ...

First came the voice of the enfant terrible, the dense modernist waves of his rebellious phase. Then came the accessible voice of the Master of the Queen's Music, the paleo-conservative, folk-weaving ...