Peter Maxwell Davies

This is - so far - the earliest composition by Davies to be available for performance, and mighty interesting it is. Written while he was still a young student, it provides a candid glimpse of the thi...

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...

Four voluntaries by Thomas Tallis arranged for brass quintet by Peter Maxwell Davies.

Two motets by Carlo Gesualdo arranged for brass quintet by Peter Maxwell Davies.

This is a full score, and the parts are also available on sale. An ebullient piece, in a simplified yet still very distinctive harmonic and rhythmic style arranged for brass quintet.

Brass quintets are exuberant almost by definition, and Davies's certainly does not disappoint. It has, though, the rarer quality of being a consistent, gripping and fully developed work: a piece as su...

Like many of Davies's smaller works, this is in a relatively lucid modal style, midway between the clarity of his carols and the complications of his symphonies: the opening is in a kind of B flat min...

The pieces come from the volume of motets in five voices which Gesualdo published in 1603. Davies's transcriptions are straight except for the addition of dynamic markings, and bring out both the disq...

Work for 2 Trumpets, 2 Horns and 2 Trombones premiered in the Museum of Scotland in 1998 by members of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Maxwell Davies has relished incorporating brilliant tuckets and a...

Work for Flute and Bass Clarinet. 'Veni Creator Spiritus' is one of a series of shorter works written in tandem with a Mass for Westminster Cathedral, for liturgical use at Pentecost. Larger performin...

Written for Ursula and Adrian on the occasion of their wedding on 3rd June 2006.

Written for Ursula and Adrian on the occasion of their wedding on 3rd June 2006.

This work for cello and orchestra was commissioned by the Strathclyde Regional Council and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. It is the second of ten concerti to be written for principal players of the S...

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...

Unusually for him, Davies starts his Bassoon Concerto not with slow music but with speed and brilliance: the opening is a Presto, initiated by the strings, and only at the entry of the soloist does th...

This dreamlike and evocative piece from Peter Maxwell Davies was originally composed for Flute and orchesta. Here it is presented as Flute with Piano reduction and still captures the wonder and sanctu...

Fanfare-Salute to Dennis Brain was commissioned with affection, admiration and gratitude to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Dennis Brain in 1957. The first performances were given as part of...

Fanfare-Salute to Dennis Brain was commissioned with affection, admiration and gratitude to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Dennis Brain in 1957. The first performances were given as part of...

Davies's feeling for the potency and bravura of the clarinet goes back to works of the 1960s; his concerto for the instrument is predictably a big, ranging piece, in two linked movements. The first, f...

Work for Solo Double Bass first premiered in June 2001 at the St. Magnus Church festival in Orkney by Duncan McTier.

Judas Mercator (Judas the Dealer) was first performed by Simon Wills (trombone) at the Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London, on 11th July 2004.

Challenging work for solo trumpet, which was commissioned by the International Trumpet Guild. It was first performed on the 23rd of June, 1999 at St. Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney at the St. Magn...

This unaffected but effective piece is a homage to the late Marjorie Linklater, a much-loved friend from Orkney, and a charming set-piece for violinists of moderate ability. The slow introductory adag...

Peter Maxwell Davies ' Sonatina For Violin Alone for solo Violin. This instrumental work was commissioned by Fenella Humphreys as part for the Bach to the Future project. The first performance took pl...