Peter Maxwell Davies
Sunday 16 April 2006 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is one of the foremost composers of our time. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who was appointed Master of the Queen's Music in 2004, has an
His credits includes operas such as The Lighthouse, ballets, music-theatre works including Eight Songs for a Mad King, eight symphonies, numerous concertos, chamber music and lighter works such as the popular Orkney Wedding with Sunrise.
Sir Peter's musical choices are varied, ranging from Italian folk music and Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers, to a Bartók string quartet and a cello concerto by the young Scottish composer Sally Beamish.
Playlist
M Berkeley The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
Monteverdi Magnificat
(from Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine, 1610)
Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra/John Eliot Gardiner
DECCA 443 482-2 CD2 T11-13
Bach 2-part invention No 7 in E minor, BWV 778 (from Bach: Inventions and Sinfonias) Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)
SONY CLASSICAL SBK 61869 T7
Bartok String Quartet No 5 (II. Adagio molto) (from Bela Bartok: The 6 String Quartets)
Takacs Quartet
DECCA 455 297-2 CD1 T8
Petrassi Kyrie (from Goffredo Petrassi: Orchestral Works)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale of Florence (Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino)/Arturo Tamayo
STRADIVARIUS STR 33552 T4
Italian folk music (from The Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music: Southern Italy and the Islands, Vol XVI and Northern and Central Italy, Vol.XV)
Novena di natale (01.50), Su tenore (01.33), Ballo sardo (01.29), La partenza (02.41), Canto di nozze (01.04), Il gallo canto (01.02)
COLUMBIA MASTERWORKS KL 5174 S1 B1/4, S2 B3/34&37, KL 5173 S1 B3/12, S2 B4/33
Schola Melurgica della Badia di Grottoferrata Inno cherubico (from Schola Melurgica della Badia di Grottoferrata/Padre Lorenzo Tardo)
CETRA LPC 50133 S1 B4
Sally Beamish Cello Concerto, River (I. March Watercolour) (from Sally Beamish: Cello Concerto)
Robert Cohen (cello), Swedish CO/Ola Rudner
BIS CD 971 T2
Lesley Sarony I lift up my finger and I say "tweet tweet" (from Comic Cuts: Various Artists)
Stanley Lupino with the Gaiety Theatre Orchestra
OLD BEAN DOLD2 T5
