Stephen Pettitt
The Sunday Times
July 2015

'Max' wrote his 10th Symphony, Alla ricerca di Borromini, in 2013-14, having just received a terrifying cancer diagnosis. It's a big, deeply reflective statement, its matter and form based on the life and work of the Italian baroque architect Francesco Borromini, some of whose words Davies sets. Pappano, the baritone Markus Butter and the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform it brilliantly.