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The string quartets are not Davies' only work in the genre: his first published composition was a movement for string quartet, and he produced a mature quartet in 1961. Two
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appeared in 1980 and 1987. There is also the unfinished final String Quartet (2016, op. 338), of which only the first movement was completed.
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Not all of the quartets have explicit extra-musical references, although the landscape and culture of Davies' adopted
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remain ever present. Davies has stated that the Third Quartet is a manifestation of his feelings of outrage at the
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Peter Maxwell Davies: Naxos Quartet No.4 - Children's Games (Score) at Musicroom.com - Sheet Music & Songbooks
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was appointed to record all ten for the record label. The first quartet was premiered by the Magginis at the
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A December 2004 New York Times review for the collection on CD, also linked on Naxos.com's catalogue
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Whittall, Arnold. 2014. "The Public and the Personal: Birtwistle and Maxwell Davies at 80".
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on 17 October 2002. The series of quartets can be considered a multi-installment "novel".
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All ten quartets are now available on five discs or downloads from Naxos Records.
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MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Naxos Quartets Nos. 7 and 8 (Maggini Quartet) - 8.557399
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MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Naxos Quartets Nos. 5 and 6 (Maggini Quartet) - 8.557398
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in Orkney. The Seventh Quartet is a tribute to the Baroque architect
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Maxwell Davies and the String Quartet, "Composition Today" website
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They were written between 2001 and 2007 to a commission from
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of 1560. The Fifth Quartet uses a motif of the flashing of
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Naxos Quartet
string quartets
English
Peter Maxwell Davies
Naxos Records
Maggini Quartet
Wigmore Hall
Orkney
invasion of Iraq
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
eponymous painting
lighthouses
Francesco Borromini
John Dowland
Elizabeth II
A December 2004 New York Times review for the collection on CD, also linked on Naxos.com's catalogue
Peter Maxwell Davies: Naxos Quartet No.4 - Children's Games (Score) at Musicroom.com - Sheet Music & Songbooks
MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Naxos Quartets Nos. 5 and 6 (Maggini Quartet) - 8.557398
MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Naxos Quartets Nos. 7 and 8 (Maggini Quartet) - 8.557399
Maxwell Davies and the String Quartet, "Composition Today" website
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Peter Maxwell Davies
List of compositions
Eight Songs for a Mad King
Taverner
The Martyrdom of St Magnus
The Lighthouse
Resurrection

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