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MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Symphony No. 2 / St. Thomas Wake (BBC Philharmonic, Maxwell Davies)

Composer(s):Maxwell Davies, Peter
Artist(s) Maxwell Davies, Peter, Conductor • BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Period(s) Contemporary
Genre Classical Music
Category Orchestral
Catalogue 8.572349
Label Naxos
Quality   320kbps
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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s Second Symphony is his ‘Sea Symphony’, a complex, virtuosic work that explores in absorbing, increasingly dynamic fashion, the ocean’s proximity and what the composer calls ‘the architecture of its forms’. Both themes and orchestration are masterly. The percussion section is richly voiced, adding considerably to the symphony’s very particular, rugged and varied sound world. St Thomas Wake, by contrast, is a disquieting but bravura exercise in parody, evoking memories of the composer’s experiences during the Second World War.


   




Review By Massimo Viazzo,Musica,


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Review By Juan Berberana,Ritmo,September 2012

Nuevamente la reedición, por parte de Naxos, del catálogo del antiguo sello Collins, nos permite degustar grabaciones de lo mejor de la música contemporánea del pasado siglo (sobre todo británica). Tras el fantástico éxito editorial que supuso la grabación de los Cuartetos de cuerda de Maxwell Davies (5 CDs de lo mejor de Naxos, gracias también al cuarteto Maggini), podemos adentrarnos en su amplio mundo sinfónico. Después de dirigir su Primera sinfonía, llega esta Segunda (de 1980), una obra de absoluta madurez, plenamente ambiciosa. Donde el inglés explora y explota lo que empieza a ser un lenguaje totalmente identificativo de su obra posterior. Una

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Review By William Hedley ,MusicWeb International,July 2012

When this performance of the Second Symphony was first released on the Collins label in 1994 the work was hailed in the Gramophone as a masterpiece. I didn’t hear it then, and come new to it now…it is a very fine work indeed. Like its predecessor, it is written on a large scale, and in spite of the difficulty of perceiving its themes it does hold the listener’s attention, even at a first hearing. The inspiration for the work is the sea, and in particular—Maxwell Davies writes in the booklet note—the tensions set up by the confluence of the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea “at the foot of the cliff before my window”.

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