The release of Peter Maxwell Davies' Naxos Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 is a truly auspicious occasion. Dubbed Master of the Queen's Music and having reached the personal milestone of age 70, Maxwell Davies is experiencing an enthusiastic resurgence of interest in his work that even he could not have imagined just five years prior. This was when the Collins Classics label folded, and with it went most of the recordings of Maxwell Davies' music into the ether. In this instance the trailblazing Naxos label has revived a time-honored ...
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The release of Peter Maxwell Davies' Naxos Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 is a truly auspicious occasion. Dubbed Master of the Queen's Music and having reached the personal milestone of age 70, Maxwell Davies is experiencing an enthusiastic resurgence of interest in his work that even he could not have imagined just five years prior. This was when the Collins Classics label folded, and with it went most of the recordings of Maxwell Davies' music into the ether. In this instance the trailblazing Naxos label has revived a time-honored tradition that has long fallen out of practice due to the decline of the "prestige factor" once accorded to classical recordings by major record companies -- the idea of a record company commissioning a work from a composer specifically for the purposes of a recording. Ultimately the Naxos Quartets will swell to ten in number, and if anyone can pull such an ambitious project off it is the hard-working and prolific Maxwell Davies. The first two quartets here are performed to...
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