Farewell to Stromness

[shewhomust]

I've tended to regard Peter Maxwell Davies as a Good Thing without really knowing his music. Listening to the radio news coverage of his death, I suspect I may have encountered something from his days as an enfant terrible before he mellowed into the Master of the Queen's Music (I paraphrase the BBC). Today they've been playing fragments of a very pretty, plaintive piece of piano music, and by the time I'd heard it a couple of times I was thinking "But surely that wants to be a fiddle tune?"

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[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Yes - but it was written as a piece of agit-prop (http://www.maxopus.com/work_detail.aspx?key=300), which I also love.