Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartets 3 and 4

In a project that will be completed in 2007, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has been commissioned by the Naxos recording company to write ten string quartets. Large-scale ambitions alrea...

Beethoven's treatments of the Russian folksongs in the “Razumovsky” String Quartets, Op. 59, nos. 1 and 2, have long elicited sharp criticism. A closer look at these treatments all...

Naxos, the largest of the Cycladic islands, offers a nuanced insight into Iron Age funerary behaviour in the Cyclades and relations between social groups as reflected in the archae...

The path of a composer's career may include a number of unexpected twists and turns. Some of them may immediately seem to be quite radical, leaving many observers always in a state...

The British Library recently acquired the sketch material for a good number of works by Peter Maxwell Davies, ranging from some of the earliest pieces up to, at the time of writing...

Maxwell Davies's Strathclydes 5 and 6 John WarnabyMacmillan, Stevenson and other Scots Calum MacDonaldHolloway's Second Concerto Michael GorodeckiBill Hopkins on NMC Patrick Ozzard...

Abstract In recent years, an on-going project investigating the urban landscape of Naxos has surveyed and produced several new digital reconstructions of the settlem...

The new reader of Four Quartets has no sooner found his way into the mysterious rose garden of 'our first world' than he is confronted with the first of the poems' compact, allusiv...