Peter Maxwell Davies

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...

The task: to write a piece that could involve children as players, singers and composers alongside a professional symphony or chamber orchestra. The solution: a peace-cry for the biosphere, in which t...

Lyric opera in two acts. Libretto by David Pountney. Commissioned jointly by the Royal Academy of Music, London, UK and The Juilliard School, New York, USA. UK premiere: 18th March 2011 - Royal...

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...

Mit den Worten des Komponisten untersucht 'Otter Island', das June Keyte und den Children's Voices of Enfield gewidmet ist, eine anschauliche Erzählung in Verbindung mit sanft fließender Musik, die ge...

Mit den Worten des Komponisten untersucht 'Otter Island', das June Keyte und den Children's Voices of Enfield gewidmet ist, eine anschauliche Erzählung in Verbindung mit sanft fließender Musik, die ge...

Mass for Treble Voices and Organ. This work was first performed on 18th March 2003 during a celebration of Mass at Westminster Cathedral, by the boys of Westminster Cathedral Choir.

Dieses kurze Chorwerk, das anlässlich des 60. Jahrestags der Beendigung des Zweiten Weltkriegs geschrieben wurde, eignet sich für Profi-, Laien- und Kirchenchöre. Die Verwendung biblischer Texte (Jesa...

Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette (B), Fagott, Horn, Viola, Violoncello und Schlagzeug (7 Spieler)

The guitar, for Davies, seems to be an updated lute, and like his Elizabethan and Jacobean predecessors, he finds the sound of plucked strings suited both to dancing and to contemplation. The outer mo...

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...

This work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It was first performed on 7th November 1997 at the Royal Conference Hall, Nottingham, by Kathryn Stott and the Royal Philharmonic Orches...

Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) erhielt bereits im Alter von 8 Jahren Klavierunterricht und begann kurz darauf zu komponieren. In den nächsten zehn Jahren schuf er fast dreißig Werke. Ein Großteil di...

The solo flute here is kept in high profile by the absence from the orchestra not only of other flutes, but also of violins and oboes; in addition, the trumpets are used sparingly (they do not, for in...

Piccolo and Piano Reduction. This work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It was first performed on 23 April 1997, by Stewart McIlwham and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conduct...