Peter Maxwell Davies: spartiti facile

In the spirit of the composer's now-famous Farewell to Stromness, this suite of short pieces takes its inspiration from the northern Orkney island of Sanday on which he lives. In three beautiful piano...

With words by the composer, 'Otter Island', dedicated to June Keyte and the Children's Voices of Enfield, explores a descriptive narrative in combination with gently flowing music that has an occasion...

With words by the composer, Otter Island, dedicated to June Keyte and the Children's Voices of Enfield, explores a descriptive narrative in combination with gently flowing music that has an occasional...

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...

Maxwell Davies' 1981 piano sonata, dedicated to the memory of Charles Senior. The first performance was given by Stephen Pruslin at the Bath Festival in May 1981.

Peter Maxwell Davies wrote this set of six short pieces in 1993 as a gift for a friend (a double bass player and composer from the BBC Philharmonic)who was celebrating the birth of his daughter. Despi...

Start Point is a collection of four tunes written for the Sanday Fiddle Club. First performed in their entirety in 2006 at the St Magnus Festival, the names of the tunes are names of places on the Ork...

This essentially contemplative work in four movements is based on a plainsong fragment from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, traditionally sung on Maundy Thursday in the ceremonies spiralling down to the...

Two works for the organ that are both composed around plainsong textures and melodies, together as a unified pair of performance pieces. Reliqui Domum Meum was first performed in Orkney, 1996 by Heath...

As Master of the Queens Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has written a new carol for Her Majesty the Queen each Christmas since his appointment to the role in 2004. Fleecy Care Carol, written for Chris...

Questa amatissima miniatura viene presentata per la prima volta in trascrizione organistica. Nella sua forma originale funge da interludio pianistico nell'opera The Yellow Cake Revue del compositore,...

Questa amatissima miniatura viene presentata per la prima volta in trascrizione organistica. Nella sua forma originale funge da interludio pianistico nell'opera The Yellow Cake Revue del compositore,...

Questa amatissima miniatura viene presentata per la prima volta in trascrizione organistica. Nella sua forma originale funge da interludio pianistico nell'opera The Yellow Cake Revue del compositore,...

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...

Start Point is a collection of four tunes written for the Sanday Fiddle Club. First performed in their entirety in 2006 at the St Magnus Festival, the names of the tunes are names of places on the Ork...

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...

Start Point is a collection of four tunes written for the Sanday Fiddle Club. First performed in their entirety in 2006 at the St Magnus Festival, the names of the tunes are names of places on the Ork...

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...

Start Point is a collection of four tunes written for the Sanday Fiddle Club. First performed in their entirety in 2006 at the St Magnus Festival, the names of the tunes are names of places on the Ork...

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...

Start Point is a collection of four tunes written for the Sanday Fiddle Club. First performed in their entirety in 2006 at the St Magnus Festival, the names of the tunes are names of places on the Ork...

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...

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...