Release Date: 02 March 2014
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 747313240876
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Maxwell Davies
Description
All the works on this recording have connections with the stage or theatre. The two suites are derived from scores that Maxwell Davies wrote for films by Ken Russell and could not be more different. The Boyfriend, based on a 1954 musical by Sandy Wilson, introduces a large dance band and period motifs to great effect, while dramatic extremes depicting the film's themes of corruption, exorcism and execution within a medieval religious setting are explored in The Devils. Seven in Nomine evokes Maxwell Davies' interest in medieval plainsong. The composer himself plays two of his most 8.572408 popular piano pieces with their memorable evocations of Orkney landmarks.
Tracklisting
Peter Otto; Nashville Symphony; Giancarlo Guerrero
Dariia Lytvishko
Michael Kaykov
Danish Chamber Orchestra; Adam Fischer
DUO Goni-Perretta
Wenting Shi
Stuttgar
Schilli
Richard Cook, St Edmundsbury Cathedral Choir, Claudia Grinnell
Mvsica Perdvta
Iker Munduate
Gunta Smirnova, Mikayel Balyan
Young Artists of the Rome Chamber Music Festival/Flavio Emilio Scogna
Toby Carr
Tobias Tietze
The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; Andrew Lawrence-King (psaltery & harp); David Skinne
