Peter Maxwell Davies: spartiti medio

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...

Partitur - gemischter Chor (SATB) a cappella oder mit Streichquartett oder 4 Holzbläsern ad lib.

Max wrote this tiny piece for the small chorus of his St Magnus Festival, with a plain string accompaniment. It works absolutely beautifully and its text (in Latin) reminds us that sometimes we should...

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)

These are all arrangements of sixteenth-century Scottish church music, beginning with Psalm 124 by David Peebles, which gains an athletic counterpoint of Davies's own. Then comes John Fethy's O God Ab...

A solemn prayer setting by Peter Maxwell Davies of a text from Liber Usualis, for unaccompanied SSATB chorus. The setting was first performed in May 2005 at the St. Magnus Cathedral, Orkney, conducted...

This piece was written as a tribute to the people of Fair Isle, a remote community that lies between Orkney and Shetland, which is also the home of the composer. The work was composed for the Grieg Tr...

The first in a series of Ten quartets commissioned by the Naxos recording company. First performed at Wigmore Hall, London in Oct 2002 by the Maggini Quartet. A convenient, miniature-sized version of...

This work was commissioned by the Naxos Recording Company, and is the fifth in a series of ten quartets. It was first performed on 20th October 2004 at the Wigmore Hall, London by the Maggini Quartet.

This work was commissioned by the Naxos Recording Company, and is the fifth in a series of ten quartets. It was first performed on 20th October 2004 at the Wigmore Hall, London by the Maggini Quartet.

This work was commissioned by the Naxos Recording Company, and is the seventh in a series of ten quartets. It was first performed on 19th October 2005, at the Wigmore Hall, London, by the Maggini Quar...

This work was commissioned by the Naxos Recording Company, and is the eighth in a series of ten quartets. It was first performed on 10th March 2006 by the Maggini Quartet, at St. Gregory's Centre, Can...

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 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...

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

Commissioned by the International Organ Festival Nürnberg Musica Sacra to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. If this glorious, full-blooded, passionate oratorio doesn't pierce, wound and ravish even...

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...

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...