MAXWELL DAVIES Naxos Quartets Nos. 5 and 6

“Both quartets are at their most persuasive in the lengthy slow movements which anchor their discursive, sometimes playful or tender, surroundings.” --BBC Music Magazine, April 2006 ****

“Volume three in Maxwell Davies’s cycle of 10 quartets finds the Maggini Quartet playing with such nerve-shredding intensity one dare hardly breathe.” --Classic FM Magazine

“Music of substance and integrity, peerlessly played, beautifully recorded.” --Gramophone Magazine, June 2006

Peter Maxwell Davies is universally acknowledged as one of the foremost composers of our time, and is currently Master of the Queen’s Music. Plainchant, musical tradition and the haunting landscape of his adopted Orkney Islands all serve as inspiration to Maxwell Davies’ extraordinary and fecund imagination. This is the third release in a series of ten quartets commissioned by Naxos. Naxos Quartet No. 5 was inspired by the dramatic sweeping beams of Orcadian lighthouses, while the composer himself describes Naxos Quartet No. 6 as “an ambitious work of six movements – a counterbalance in the cycle of ten quartets to the relatively slight fourth and fifth”.

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