Peter Maxwell Davies

The two nocturnes were composed immediately after major surgery, against a deadline, and, despite the music sounding unlike anything I have written before, I decided to keep them exactly as they turne...

Commissioned by the Primrose Piano Quartet with funding from the Scottish Arts Council, Mr and Mrs J. A. Pye's Charitable Settlement, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and the Hope-Scott...

The first in a series of Ten quartets commissioned by the Naxos recording company. First performed at Wigmore Hall, London in Oct 2002 by the Maggini Quartet. A convenient, miniature-sized version of...

The third in the series of ten Quartets commissioned by the Naxos recording company. First performed at Wigmore Hall, London in Oct 2003 by the Maggini Quartet. A convenient, miniature-sized version o...

This work was a test piece for the International string Quartet competition in 2005, Premio Paulo Borciani, It was inspired by a keyboard piece of the same name, A Sad Paven for these Distracted Tymes...

This work was a test piece for the International string Quartet competition in 2005, Premio Paulo Borciani, It was inspired by a keyboard piece of the same name, A Sad Paven for these Distracted Tymes...

This work was commissioned by the Naxos Recording Company, and is the fifth in a series of ten quartets. It was first performed on 20th October 2004 at the Wigmore Hall, London by the Maggini Quartet.

This work was commissioned by the Naxos Recording Company, and is the eighth in a series of ten quartets. It was first performed on 10th March 2006 by the Maggini Quartet, at St. Gregory's Centre, Can...

This work was commissioned by the Naxos Recording Company, and is the eighth in a series of ten quartets. It was first performed on 10th March 2006 by the Maggini Quartet, at St. Gregory's Centre, Can...

HPS 1175

This is - so far - the earliest composition by Davies to be available for performance, and mighty interesting it is. Written while he was still a young student, it provides a candid glimpse of the thi...

The second of the Quartets commissioned by the Naxos label was completed in January 2003. This work swings between nervous virtuosic energy to the serene calm of an extended Lento, with exotic harmoni...

This work was commissioned by the Strover family for the Maggini Quartet, on the occasion of Rosalind Strover's 100th birthday. It was first performed by the Maggini Quartet on 5th November 2004, at S...

This work was commissioned by the Strover family for the Maggini Quartet, on the occasion of Rosalind Strover's 100th birthday. It was first performed by the Maggini Quartet on 5th November 2004, at S...

Miniature score for the ninth Naxos Quartet by Peter Maxwell Davies.

Miniature score for the tenth Naxos Quartet by Peter Maxwell Davies.

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...

Start Point is a collection of four tunes written for the Sanday Fiddle Club. First performed in their entirety in 2006 at the St Magnus Festival, the names of the tunes are names of places on the Ork...

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...

Start Point is a collection of four tunes written for the Sanday Fiddle Club. First performed in their entirety in 2006 at the St Magnus Festival, the names of the tunes are names of places on the Ork...

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...

Start Point is a collection of four tunes written for the Sanday Fiddle Club. First performed in their entirety in 2006 at the St Magnus Festival, the names of the tunes are names of places on the Ork...

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...

Start Point is a collection of four tunes written for the Sanday Fiddle Club. First performed in their entirety in 2006 at the St Magnus Festival, the names of the tunes are names of places on the Ork...

A Birthday Card for Prince Charles' was written for the Sanday Fiddle Club, in celebration of the sixtieth birthday of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Sanday is one of the Orkney Islands, the...