Peter Maxwell Davies

Scored for three groups: Group 1 consists of SATB Soli and String Quintet * Group 2 is SATB (Choir 1), Two trumpets, Two trombones and chamber organ 1 * Group 3 is SATB (Choir 2), flute, oboe, clarine...

HPS 994

HPS 1119

HPS 1340

This work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to celebrate its 40th birthday. The first performance took place in June 1986 at St. Magnus' Cathedral, Kirkwall, as part of the tenth St...

Clarinet, String Orchestra, Cor Anglais, Bass Clarinet, Piccolo, Alto Flute, Contrabassoon The solo group consists of a sextet of the woodwind instruments which are normally doubled with more regular...

The Fall of the Leafe is based on a piece for virginal from the Fitzwilliam collection and is characterised by a descriptive descending scale which imitates leaves falling in autumn. The piece has fur...

Commissioned by the St Magnus Festival and first performed there in 2007, The Seas of Kirk Swarf, like many of the composer's works, draws inspiration from the Orkney Isles where Maxwell Davies lives....

Having previously been granted the diploma of the Bologna Academy in December 2011, Maxwell Davies wrote his Concerto Accademico as both an expression of gratitude to the Regia Academia Filarmonico di...

This much-loved miniature is presented in organ transcripton for the first time. In its original form it serves as a piano interlude in the composer's The Yellow Cake Revue, comment in words and music...

This much-loved miniature is presented in organ transcripton for the first time. In its original form it serves as a piano interlude in the composer's The Yellow Cake Revue, comment in words and music...

This much-loved miniature is presented in organ transcripton for the first time. In its original form it serves as a piano interlude in the composer's The Yellow Cake Revue, comment in words and music...

Written for Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh for Christmas 2006, this delightful carol displays the natural affinity that the composer has with writing for voice. Sui...

As Master of the Queen's Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has written a new carol for Her Majesty the Queen each Christmas since his appointment to the role in 2004. A Winter Lamb, a setting of George...

Peter Maxwell Davies spent a day at a gynaecological clinic in London at the invitation of Professor Ian Craft, who commissioned the piece in memory of his father. During his time there he met many pe...