Peter Maxwell Davies

A continuous setting of six poems from George Mackay Brown's Fishermen with Plough, which concern the traditional ways of life and death in Radwick, the village on hoy, Orkney where the composer lived...

Composed in 2003, The Kestrel Road was jointly commissioned by forty-seven choirs, all of which are members of Music Making - a national society that links several thousand amateur choirs and orchestr...

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...

A work for SATB soli, SATB chorus and orchestra, using a variety of texts, selected by Alistair Grant, who commissioned the work to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Jacobite rising (1745-6). I...

A substantial work for four soli, SATB chorus and orchestra, using text from the translation of Stephen Mitchell's The Book Of Job. Like Vaughan Williams in his Job: A Masque for Dancing, Davies was i...

Klavierauszug mit Solostimmen

A Selkie Tale is a short music-theatre work (duration about 25 minutes) designed for performance by seven- to eleven-year-olds year olds. Four solo roles and several separate chorus groups give scope...

Beacons of Hope, for concert wind band, was commissioned by the Royal British Legion to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.

No 11 Bus has been expertly composed by Peter Maxwell Davis. This fantastic Score has been written for Piano with beautiful sweeping melody and harmony lines.

A solo piece for Piano aimed towards the young performer. Premiered on 6th December 1998 at the Collins performance centre in Rochester, New York.

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. Desp...

Maxwell Davies schrieb das faszinierende Oboenquartett für langjährige Mitwirkende des Hebrides Ensemble und widmete es dem bedeutenden Komponisten und Dirigenten Oliver Knussen anlässlich dessen 60....

Fanfare; Portsmouth is a work for Brass Ensemble, composed by Peter Maxwell Davies. Commissioned by the New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth, to celebrate its re-opening, it was first performed there on 11th...

Fanfare; Portsmouth is a work for Brass Ensemble, composed by Peter Maxwell Davies. Commissioned by the New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth, to celebrate its re-opening, it was first performed there on 11th...

This is a work for 10 players. It was composed in 1969.

Set of parts for five string lines.

A Choral Suite for Two Part (Soprano and Alto) Children's Chorus setting the text of George Mackay Brown. This enchanting 12-minute cycle is typical of the subtle and delicate way Maxwell-Davies appro...

This consists of five short movements. They were written for the Sunday lunchtime magazine programme, 'Not Now, I'm Listening' and were first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 6 November 1977. The work was...