Peter Maxwell Davies

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...

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...

The Fall of the Leafe is based on a piece for virginal from the Fitzwilliam collection and is characterised by a descriptive descending scale which imitates leaves falling in autumn. The piece has fur...

Peter Maxwell Davies was thinking of individual and communal vulnerability when composing this piece, especially in relation to the problem of climate change and his home in the Orkney Islands, which...

This highly complex and virtuosic ensemble work shows that even in his 80s Sir Peter Maxwell Davies shows no signs of taking it easy. Composed in Italy in 2012, The Trojan Games depicts a sequence of...

17 Blasinstrumente (2 Flöten, 2 Oboen, 2 Klarinetten in B, 2 Fagotte, 3 Hörner in F, 1 Trompete in D, 1 Trompeten in B, 2 Tenor-Posaunen, 1 Tuba)

Peter Maxwell Davies was thinking of individual and communal vulnerability when composing this piece, especially in relation to the problem of climate change and his home in the Orkney Islands, which...

The solo group consists of a sextet of the woodwind instruments which are normally doubled with more regular members of the orchestra: these six strangers, now brought to the fore, are piccolo and alt...

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...

Instrumentation: Piccolo (doublind Flute) * Clarinet in Bb * Percussion (1 Player) * Harpsichord (dbl. upright, out-of-tune Piano) * Violin * Cello.

Instrumentation: Flute (doubling Piccolo) - Oboe - Clarinet in A (dbl. Bass Clarinet) - Horn in F - Trumpet in C - Trombone - Percussion (3 Players) - Harp - String Quartet.

Männerstimme und Instrumentalensemble (Flöte, Klarinette in B, Percussion, Klavier, Violine, Violoncello).

HPS 1290.