Goehr, Birtwistle, Maxwell Davies
Ivan Hewett introduces a performance from the Buxton Festival of Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King, plus other works from the 1960s by Goehr and Birtwistle.
Ivan Hewett is joined in he studio by writer and broadcaster Paul Griffiths to introduce one of the most celebrated British compositions of the 1960s, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King, in a performance given last month at the Buxton Festival by baritone Kelvin Thomas and the Music Theatre Wales Ensemble, conducted by Michael Rafferty.
The programme also includes two other important British works from the '60s, Alexander Goehr's Pastorals (performed by the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra) and Sir Harrison Birtwistle's Tragoedia (performed by the Melos Ensemble).
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The Hear and Now Fifty - Peter Maxwell Davies
Duration: 10:31
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The Hear and Now Fifty - Harrison Birtwistle
Duration: 13:52
Music Played
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Alexander Goehr
Pastorals
Performers: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen (conductor)
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Harrison Birtwistle
Tragoedia
Performers: Melos Ensemble, Lawrence Foster (conductor)
- Music Among Friends.
- EMI.
- 9185142, CD11, Tk. 8 - 17.
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Eight Songs for a Mad King
Performed By: Kelvin Thomas (baritone), The Music Theatre Wales Ensemble, Michael Rafferty (conductor)- Recorded at the Opera House, Buxton, 16 July 2013, as part of the 2013 Buxton Festival
Broadcast
- Sat 10 Aug 2013 22:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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