Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Sacred Choral Works

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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Sacred Choral WorksSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO In the 1960s few would have predicted that Peter Maxwell Davies would eventually write a set of Evening Canticles; yet religious texts have always been of fundamental importance to the composer, as this disc vividly demonstrates by bringing together sacred masterworks from both ends of his career. Tough, uncompromising and of surpassing beauty, Davies major contributions to the Anglican repertoire are given thrilling

Total playing time: 1:19:36

but no matter how polished their singing nothing quite matches the experience of hearing our greatest church choirs singing their own repertoire on their own territory

and his Exon Singers are well inside the music on these 16 tracks

"There is at work here an amazing sense of choral discipline combined with genuinely exultant joy

Cover photography: John & Rachel Christ

Supported by a splendidly vivid recording

Total playing time: 58:00

In his debut recording with the critically acclaimed Edinburgh choir

EARLY MUSIC FORUM OF SCOTLAND

There are some clever registrations on this bright continental-sounding instrument at Edinburgh University which was built in 1977-8 by the north German Jurgen Ahrend

and real expressive depth achieved in Bach’s monumental St Anne Fugue and Liszt’s Weinen

"On the whole the choral singing is admirably disciplined and contoured

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