For many composers, the decline of classical recording has meant a lack of new opportunities to get their music memorialized in a permanent recorded fashion. For Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, it meant half a lifetime’s work suddenly becoming unavailable to the public when his record label was sold. But Davies’ refused to admit defeat, spent months reacquiring the copyrights to his recorded work, and launched a new web site offering the old recordings and more, either by quick-and-easy download for between £1 and £4, or on custom-made CD for only slightly more. “It is a dazzling, breathtaking example of the composer cutting out the middle man and taking charge of his own destiny.”