Edmond Dede

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.

Look For Me is a work by contemporary composer Nico Muhly for Reed Quintet. The score is in the key of C and is arranged for Cor Anglais (doubling Oboe), Clarinet in Bb, Bass Clarinet in Bb, Soprano (...

From the Golden Globe nominated movie, The Reader, comes three arrangemetns for Viola and Piano. The Piano takes the lead, with the Viola instead providing drones, shimmers, and swells.

Drones & Viola was written by Nico Muhly for Thomas Bartlett and Nadia Sirotain in 2011. Every movement begins with either the Piano or Viola establishing a drone for the duration of the movement. Ove...

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...

Die sechssätzige Sonata ist das unmittelbare Ergebnis von Peter Maxwell Davies' Begegnung mit den 'pievi', frühmittelalterlichen ländlichen Kirchen, in der Toskana. Er schreibt: 'Das Stück wurde insbe...

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...