Peter Maxwell Davies

The two nocturnes were composed immediately after major surgery, against a deadline, and, despite the music sounding unlike anything I have written before, I decided to keep them exactly as they turne...

Start Point ist eine aus vier Melodien bestehende Sammlung, die für den Sanday Fiddle Club geschrieben wurden. Die Melodien, die 2006 beim St. Magnus Festival als Ganzes uraufgeführt wurden, sind nach...

A Birthday Card for Prince Charles' was written for the Sanday Fiddle Club, in celebration of the sixtieth birthday of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Sanday is one of the Orkney Islands, the...

The Sonata, in six movements, is the direct outcome of Peter Maxwell Davies' encounter with the 'pievi' - early medieval rural churches - of Tuscany. He writes: 'In particular, it was inspired by the...

A sketch of the majestic flight of a great and rare sea-bird in music which is mostly slow, though rising to scalic runs of great brilliance and flexibility. For solo horn.

The basis of this suite is a series of dances in my opera The Two Fiddlers, performed by children. They are played on the fiddle, Orkney-Scottish style, by Storm Kolson, first at the Trolls' dance, an...

Composed in London and Italy but inspired by Scottish fiddle writing, Max's sonata for solo violin is a reflective work that is both exuberant and nostalgic - a fantastic show piece from one of the UK...

Opening simply with a solo voice, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Italian settings of eight poems by Renaissance artist Michelangelo for baritone and piano take both the performers and audience on a strikin...

Mr Emmet represents an enigma: is he a business man with briefcase and umbrella pursuing the ultimate commercial contract, a double agent extorting a much shadier deal from a foreign power, or a tragi...

These 5 short voluntaries are arrangements of Jeremiah Clarke, William Croft, Pierre Attaignant and Louis Couperin. They make lively and interesting pieces suitable for youth orchestras or school orch...

First publication of the vocal score of this 1969 music-theatre work for male voice and ensemble, a landmark in the composer's career.The songs are a monologue by the King while he tries to teach his...

Synopsis von Paul Griffiths: Die Geschichte ist die Version einer weitverbreiteten Legende, wie sie auf den Orkney-Inseln erzählt wird. Zwei Fiedler begegnen auf der Heimkehr von einer Hochzeitsfeier...

This accessible motet is a companion piece for Lullabye for Lucy (ISMN 979-0-060-03760-3), which was composed for the birth of Lucy Rendall, the first child born in Rackwick, Hoy, for 32 years. Suscip...

Angelus is an important addition to the choral ensemble repertoire - highly charged, dramatic and challenging for any good choir.

Prayer of Thanksgiving was written to mark the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot in November 1605, which occurred during the months when London was experiencing a further time of terror after th...

For SATB choir Text by Mary MacDonald translated by Lachlan MacBean and from the bible Chorpartitur - with piano reduction for rehearsal only - gemischter Chor (SATB)

Text by George Mackay Brown and from The St Magnus Prayer.