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- Peter Maxwell Davies
Anakreontika (1976)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
- afl/perc/hpd/vc
- mezzo soprano
- 15 min
- in the style of Anakreon
Programme Note
A Mediterranean, erotic postlude to a time when Davies had been much occupied with setting the Orkney poetry of George Mackay Brown. The voice, though, is the same. The mezzo part is wide-ranging and melismatic, and the ensemble plays music that is at once luminous and questioning, memorialized and urgently communicative. Five short songs are woven together with instrumental commentaries into a single movement.