This recording brings together important key works from Peter Maxwell Davies’s middle period. Although the two major works on the CD, Ave Maris Stellaand Image, Reflection, Shadow, can be viewed as companions, they are completely different in character. Ave Maris Stella is a passionate lament, Image, Reflection, Shadow a lyrical contemplation of nature. The works are faultlessly performed by The Fires of London, the group for which they were written.
