Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King
Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics - A podcast by BBC Radio 3
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Writer and critic Paul Driver explains why Maxwell Davies’s 8 Songs For A Mad King is so uniquely important in the development of music theatre; and the Viennese composer and chansonnier HK Gruber describes the work from the inside, as a performer who has sung the taxing part of the King many times.