Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Peter Maxwell Davies, a hugely prolific composer, performer and teacher. While he was once an 'enfant terrible', his music changed after moving ot Orkney ...

PETER MAXWELL DAVIES, who has died at his remote home in the Orkneys at the age of 81, became famous as an avant-garde composer. But he was also left-wing, openly gay, anti-Establishment and a staunch ...