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How Max put Orkney at the heart of his St Magnus festival – and in the heart of his extraordinary music

The festival founded by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies hits its 50th edition this midsummer and continues to connect culture and community. Also this week – is 432Hz the magic number?

The Guardian - UK · Jun 10

Manchester Camerata review – mental torments build up to a royal meltdown

A clever programme brought a mounting sense of lost grip, from Errollyn Wallen voicing the shame of Hamlet’s Ophelia, to Schumann’s fraught love declaration, and Peter Maxwell Davies’s Eight Songs for a Mad King

The Guardian - UK · Jun 7

Alexander Goehr: composer who brought European avant garde sensibilities to stuffy 50s Britain

Goehr, who has died, was a founder of the New Music Manchester group with Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies, revolutionising the parochial world of British music

The Guardian - UK · Aug 27, 2024