’..this is a book which admirers and sometime sceptics alike will need to have.’ International Record Review '... Perspectives on Peter Maxwell Davies presents eight essays offering varied and fascinating consideration of the composer's oeuvre.' Music and Letters

• Contents: Introduction; Alma redemptoris mater, David Roberts; Worldes Blis and its satellites, Peter Owens; A fox-trot to the crucifixion, Michael Burden; Structure and effect in Ave Maris Stella, Joel Lester; Peter Maxwell Davies’s recent music, and its debt to his earlier scores, John Warnaby; Compositional processes in some works of the 1980s, Richard McGregor; Max the symphonist, Richard McGregor; ’A dance of the deadly sins’: The Beltane Fire and the rites of modernism, Arnold Whittall; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

’..this is a book which admirers and sometime sceptics alike will need to have.’ International Record Review '... Perspectives on Peter Maxwell Davies presents eight essays offering varied and fascinating consideration of the composer's oeuvre.' Music and Letters

• Contents: Introduction; Alma redemptoris mater, David Roberts; Worldes Blis and its satellites, Peter Owens; A fox-trot to the crucifixion, Michael Burden; Structure and effect in Ave Maris Stella, Joel Lester; Peter Maxwell Davies’s recent music, and its debt to his earlier scores, John Warnaby; Compositional processes in some works of the 1980s, Richard McGregor; Max the symphonist, Richard McGregor; ’A dance of the deadly sins’: The Beltane Fire and the rites of modernism, Arnold Whittall; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

’..this is a book which admirers and sometime sceptics alike will need to have.’ International Record Review '... Perspectives on Peter Maxwell Davies presents eight essays offering varied and fascinating consideration of the composer's oeuvre.' Music and Letters

• Contents: Introduction; Alma redemptoris mater, David Roberts; Worldes Blis and its satellites, Peter Owens; A fox-trot to the crucifixion, Michael Burden; Structure and effect in Ave Maris Stella, Joel Lester; Peter Maxwell Davies’s recent music, and its debt to his earlier scores, John Warnaby; Compositional processes in some works of the 1980s, Richard McGregor; Max the symphonist, Richard McGregor; ’A dance of the deadly sins’: The Beltane Fire and the rites of modernism, Arnold Whittall; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.