Manch Choirsbbcpodavies - Maxwell Daviesbeltane Fire [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.The works on this recording embrace a varied miscellany of Peter Maxwell Davies' orchestral output from the early 1990s. The 'choreographic poem' The Beltane Fire pits the sternness of the Reformation clergy against the pagan traditions of the Orkney Islands. Concerned with environmental pollution, The Turn of the Tide ultimately reaches 'a triumphant dance of all creation', while the Threnody and Pavan are poignant memorial tributes for significant figures in the composer's life.Our catalogue of works by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has for some time had sufficient critical mass to make each new release an automatic purchase for connoisseurs of the best in contemporary music. This new collection was preceded by our June release of The Lighthouse (8.660354), acclaimed by BBC Music Magazine as a work to 'grip the imagination from start to finish... incisively superb.' This new release is a collection with a great deal of variety, reviving a Collins Classics recording of The Beltane Fire which Gramophone considered 'excellent performances... from the Maxwell Davies/BBC Philharmonic partnership; the recordings are clean and vivid'. The BBC Music Magazine also admired 'the combined forces of four children's choirs from Manchester [who] acquit themselves magnificently in the final hymn to unsullied nature' in The Turn of the Tide, a work which holds as much resonance today as it did in the 1990s for those concerned about our environment.

In the Barn of the Bu - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Interlude I - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

A Field - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Interlude II - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

The Kirk - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

The Field - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

The Beltane Fire - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

The Creation of Underwater Plants - Various Performers

The Creation of Plants On Land - Various Performers

The Creation of the First Sea Creatures - Various Performers

The Creation of Birds - Various Performers

Mammals, and First People - Various Performers

The Underwater Plants Flourish - Various Performers

The Trees Flourish - Various Performers

The Prosperity of Fish - Various Performers

Bird Migration - Various Performers

Instinct and Intellect in Mammals and Mankind - Various Performers

The Sea Plants Are Poisoned - Various Performers

The Trees Are Suffocated - Various Performers

The Fish Are Deformed and Cannot Function - Various Performers

The Birds Fall from the Sky - Various Performers

Hubris Triumphant - Various Performers

The Warning Is Heeded - Nature Reborn - The Decline Is Reversed - Various Performers

Sunday Morning - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Threnody On a Plainsong for Michael Vyner - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Sir Charles His Pavan - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

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