Peter Maxwell Davies

The inspiring journey of the three kings to Bethlehem is beautifully told through words and music in Peter Maxwell Davies' wonderful setting of George Mackay Brown's text. The piece is arranged for SS...

Peter Maxwell Davies sets Barbara Newman's translation of a text by Hildegard von Bingen, for SATB chorus and Organ. The work was commissioned by Epsom College to celebrate the one hudred and fiftieth...

Gray's Pier was commissioned by Andreas Klatt for Farnham Youth Choir. From Following a Lark by George Mackay Brown. For unaccompanied choir SSA. Piano accompaniment on the score for rehearsal purpose...

For SSSAAATTBBB (with soli) and Organ. Dedicated to Her Majesty The Queen, in the year of her Diamond Jubilee. Commissioned by the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral in celebration of the terce...

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.

This short opera (duration of 50 minutes), aptly designed for children to perform with modest resources, is a version of the familiar tale, though with certain adaptations. Cinderella is an au pair gi...

A Torrent Of Gold is a work for SSA Chorus and Piano Accompaniment by Peter Maxwell Davies. Commissioned by Hurstpierpoint College, the first performance was on 15th January 2016. A setting of a poem...

A continuous setting of six poems from George Mackay Brown's Fishermen with Plough, which concern the traditional ways of life and death in Radwick, the village on hoy, Orkney where the composer lived...

Composed in 2003, The Kestrel Road was jointly commissioned by forty-seven choirs, all of which are members of Music Making - a national society that links several thousand amateur choirs and orchestr...

This work was commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra to celebrate its 25th anniversary. The first performance was given on 3rd December 1998 at Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, by Lisa Tyrrell (Sopran...

First performed on 17 October 2000 at the Pieve dell'Assunta, Cavalese, Trentino, Italy by the Mayfield Singers, this is an Italian translation of the text A Hoy Calendar from the poem sequence Fisher...

A work for SATB soli, SATB chorus and orchestra, using a variety of texts, selected by Alistair Grant, who commissioned the work to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Jacobite rising (1745-6). I...

A substantial work for four soli, SATB chorus and orchestra, using text from the translation of Stephen Mitchell's The Book Of Job. Like Vaughan Williams in his Job: A Masque for Dancing, Davies was i...

This is an adaptation made by the composer from the last section of Westerlings, for unaccompanied miexed chorus, which was written for the Uppsala Akademiska Kammerkör to mark the quincentenary of th...

Klavierauszug mit Solostimmen

A Selkie Tale is a short music-theatre work (duration about 25 minutes) designed for performance by seven- to eleven-year-olds year olds. Four solo roles and several separate chorus groups give scope...