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Master of the Queen’s Music and renowned composer, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, looks back at a career spanning more than 50 years. He talks about studying composition at university and being told that he would never be good enough to make a career out of it and his controversial early work which prompted a mass walk out of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms in the sixties. Max also describes how the quiet Orkney landscape (where he resides) affects his work today.

Features the ´óÏó´«Ã½ SSO rehearsing ‘Overture: St. Francis of Assisi’ the day before they perform the world premier of the piece.