Maxwell Davies: The Beltane Fire, The Turn of the Tide & Sir

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Naxos
Release Date
December 9, 2014
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MAXWELL DAVIES, PETER
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Manchester Cathedral Girls' Choir, Boys Of The Manchester Cathedral Choir
    • PERFORMER
      Boys Of The Manchester Ca
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      December 09, 2014
    • UPC
      747313236275
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8572362
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Scene 1: In the Barn of the Bu

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    2. Interlude I

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    3. Scene 2: A Field

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    4. Interlude II

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    5. Scene 3: The Kirk

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    6. Scene 4: The Field

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    7. Scene 5: The Beltane Fire

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    8. Section I: I. The creation of underwater plants -

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    9. Section I: II. The creation of plants on land -

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    10. Section I: III. The creation of the first sea creatures -

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    11. Section I: IV. The creation of birds -

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    12. Section I: V. Mammals, and first people

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    13. Section II: I. The underwater plants flourish -

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    14. Section II: II. The trees flourish -

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    15. Section II: III. The prosperity of fish -

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    16. Section II: IV. Bird migration -

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    17. Section II: V. Instinct and intellect in mammals and mankind

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    18. Section V: I. The sea plants are poisoned -

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    19. Section V: II. The trees are suffocated -

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    20. Section V: III. The fish are deformed and cannot function -

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    21. Section V: IV. The birds fall from the sky -

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    22. Section V: V. Hubris triumphant -

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    23. Section VI: The warning is heeded - Nature reborn - The decline is reversed

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: Manchester Cathedral Choir, boys Manchester Cathedral Voluntary Choir, Manchester Grammar School Boys' Choir, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    24. Sunday Morning

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    25. Threnody on a Plainsong for Michael Vyner

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies

    26. Sir Charles his Pavan

      Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies


The works on this recording embrace a varied miscellany of Peter Maxwell Davies’ orchestraloutput from the early 1990s. The ‘choreographic poem’ The Beltane Fire pits the sternness of theReformation clergy against the pagan traditions of the Orkney Islands. Concerned withenvironmental pollution, The Turn of the Tide ultimately reaches “a triumphant dance of allcreation”, while the Threnody and Pavan are poignant memorial tributes for significant figuresin the composer’s life.