This album is the third release in a series of ten Naxos Quartets, with the Maggini Quartet performing and recording all ten works over a five-year period.
Performer Biography
The Maggini Quartet, formed in 1988, is renowned for championing British composers and has won numerous awards for their recordings, including a Gramophone Chamber Music CD of the Year.
Composition History
These Naxos Quartets are part of a series of ten quartets commissioned by Naxos, fulfilling the composer's long-held intention to make a major contribution to chamber music.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Plainchant, musical tradition, and the haunting landscape of his adopted Orkney Islands serve as inspiration for Peter Maxwell Davies's compositions.
Performer Biography
The Maggini Quartet takes its name from Giovanni Paolo Maggini, a famous sixteenth-century Brescian violin-maker, an example of whose work is played by David Angel, one of the quartet's violinists.
Composer Biography
Peter Maxwell Davies, the composer of these quartets, is acknowledged as one of the foremost composers of our time and is currently Master of the Queen's Music.
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