Peter Maxwell Davies

Text by George Mackay Brown and from The St Magnus Prayer.

Performing score of the three Violin lines only.

Farewell to Stromness und Yesnaby Ground sind Zwischenspiele für Klavier aus Maxwell Davies' The Yellow Cake Revue und stellen eine Folge von kabarettartigen Nummern dar. Die Revue erhielt ihren Namen...

Ganz im Geiste seines beliebten Stückes 'Farewell to Stromness' geschrieben, ist Maxwell Davies' Suite aus kurzen Stücken von der nördlich gelegenen schottischen Orkney-Insel Sanday inspiriert, auf de...

Instrumentation: Piccolo * Bass Clarinet * Violoncello * Percussion (1 player) * Piano.

Flöte, Klarinette in B, Trompete in C, Posaune, Schlagwerk, Violine, Viola, Violoncello, Kontrabass

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...

Mrs Johnson's Tunes: eine Sammlung von 4 Stücken für jüngere Blockflötenensemble, ist dem Andenken an Doreen Johnson, einer Lehrerin der Sanday School von Orkney gewidmet. Dieses Werk enthält einen re...

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...

Sea Runes is scored for unaccompanied choir AATBBB or SATBBB set to text by George Mackay Brown. It is a haunting and evocative setting of a group of six poems by the Orkney poet, George Mackay Brown...

This motet for unaccompanied SATB choir was commissioned for the 500th anniversary of King's College, Cambridge. This is a setting in Greek of an Orthodox prayer to Christ as Son and Word, God and Man...

Corpus Christi, With Cat And Mouse is a setting of fragments selected from the Richard Hill Commonplace Book, an early 16th century manuscript in the library of Balliol College, Oxford. Commissioned b...

Peter Maxwell Davies' 1994 work for unaccompanied SATB choir, using text from George Mackay Brown's 1971 poem A Hoy Calendar. A girdle round the year in five minutes. In twelve clear, simple images Ge...

Il Rozzo Martello for unaccompanied choir SATB, by Peter Maxwell Davies, was commissioned by BBC Radio 3. It was first performed on 14th August 1997 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, by the BBC Sin...

A setting of the Liber Usualis plainsong for unaccompanied SATB chorus, written for the Feast Of he Archangel St. Michael. The piece was first performed by the Chior Of Westminster Abbey in July 2004...

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...