Sir Peter Maxwell Davies RIP

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  • Petrushka
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12242

    Sir Peter Maxwell Davies RIP



    More from me later.
    "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
  • pureimagination
    Full Member
    • Aug 2014
    • 109

    #2
    Originally posted by Petrushka View Post


    More from me later.
    My thoughts are with his family and friends and all who enjoyed his music.

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    • Beef Oven!
      Ex-member
      • Sep 2013
      • 18147

      #3
      Oh no. This is terrible, sad news. I thought he'd gotten 'round that difficult episode of his illness.

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      • Serial_Apologist
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 37639

        #4
        How very sad.

        I met him once, it must have been 1972 when he came to the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol and gave a piano recital - the late Brahms Intermezzi, Schoenberg Op 11 and a piece of his own based on Schubert, iirc. I spoke to him briefly afterwards - he was very friendly and approachable, and the strongest impression was of those piercing blue eyes.

        RIP Sir Peter

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        • BBMmk2
          Late Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 20908

          #5
          Very sad to hear. RIP Max
          Don’t cry for me
          I go where music was born

          J S Bach 1685-1750

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          • MrGongGong
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 18357

            #6
            Very sad news indeed
            Max was a great inspiration and had boundless enthusiasm and approachability

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            • Beef Oven!
              Ex-member
              • Sep 2013
              • 18147

              #7
              Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
              How very sad.

              I met him once, it must have been 1972 when he came to the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol and gave a piano recital - Brahms, Schoenberg Op 11 and a piece of his own based on Schubert, iirc. I spoke to him briefly afterwards - he was very friendly and approachable, and the strongest impression was of those piercing blue eyes.

              RIP Sir Peter
              Yes, a very friendly approachable man. I fawned over him a couple of times following gigs (something I've not shaken off since first going to gigs in the 70s!).

              I'm really feeling sad.

              RIP Max

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              • ahinton
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 16122

                #8
                Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                Oh no. This is terrible, sad news. I thought he'd gotten 'round that difficult episode of his illness.
                So did I; indeed, I had read with no small amount of relief that this was the case.

                Very sad and quite shocked at this news.

                RIP, Max.

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                • Mary Chambers
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 1963

                  #9
                  This was a shock. BBC1 News just about mentioned it at the end of the programme. Cf David Bowie coverage.

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                  • Flay
                    Full Member
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 5795

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Mary Chambers View Post
                    BBC1 News just about mentioned it at the end of the programme. Cf David Bowie coverage.
                    My thought too. Yet another sad loss.
                    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                    • jean
                      Late member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 7100

                      #11
                      But a longish item on R4 WATO.

                      41 mins in until the end of the programme:

                      Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell.


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                      Last edited by jean; 14-03-16, 15:19.

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                      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                        Gone fishin'
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 30163

                        #12
                        Very sad news - a great loss.
                        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                        • teamsaint
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 25202

                          #13
                          An inspiration , not least through his final work and illness.
                          .
                          I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                          I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                          • Eine Alpensinfonie
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 20570

                            #14
                            When I was a student at Bangor University in 1970, there was much speculation of who would succeed Reginald Smith Brindle as professor of music. Many students were rooting for PMD. In the end, William Mathias took over as professor - another who was born in 1934.

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                            • ardcarp
                              Late member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 11102

                              #15
                              Anyone remember The Fires of London...red polo-necks, etc?

                              RIP Max

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