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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ 10 Naxos Quartets will be performed for the first time as a complete cycle in celebration of the composer’s 75th birthday at Southbank Centre. The works will be performed over one weekend (9 – 11 October) by 10 young string quartets from the Park Lane Group (PLG) and the Maggini Quartet, for which the cycle was commissioned. The Naxos Quartets were commissioned by Naxos Records, and recorded for the label by the Maggini Quartet. They were written between 2002 and 2007 and form one of the most significant additions to the chamber music canon in recent years.