1 Ojai Festival Overture 5:30 2 Farewell To Stromness 4:45 3 Yesnaby Ground 2:20 Caroline Mathilde: Suite From Act I Of The Ballet 4 Scene III: The Queen's Chamber 2:52 5 Scene IV: The Royal Chambers 13:18 - 6 Lullabye For Lucy 5:17 Suite From "The Boyfriend" 7 Polly's Dream 7:41 O Magnum Mysterium 8 Carol: The Fader Of Heven 1:48 9 Carol: O Magnum Mysterium 1:42 Seven In Nomine 10 Glorina Tibi Trinitas 1:53 11 In Nomine 1:10 - 12 Threnody On A Plainsong For Michael Vyner 3:30 13 St. Thomas Wake - Extract 4:06 14 An Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise 13:01

Peter Maxwell Davies is one of Britain’s most fecund and fascinating composers, a leading member of a generation of composers for whom the twelve-tone technique of Schoenberg held no fears and demanded no slavish adherence. Davies and his fellows took a continental view of modern music with an easy and assertive confidence that marked a decisive shutting of the cattle-gate on the Vaughan Williams-influenced pastoralism prevalent in British music up until the 1950s.

During this period of Davies’s development, mainly devoted to abstract symphonic writing, the tutelary influence of Mahler has perhaps been replaced by that of Sibelius. Of course, Davies remains very much his own man, pursuing his high creative ambitions with an extremely distinctive language and vocabulary; composing as prolifically as ever; and, albeit in a quieter formal register, as daringly as ever.

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