Peter Maxwell Davies

Klavierauszug E/FR/D - Mezzosopran und Ensemble.

HPS 771

Study Score edition of Peter Maxwell Davies's 1978 Ballet in two acts Salome. Hawkes Pocket Score 963.

HPS 1141

Synopsis von Paul Griffiths: Die Geschichte ist die Version einer weitverbreiteten Legende, wie sie auf den Orkney-Inseln erzählt wird. Zwei Fiedler begegnen auf der Heimkehr von einer Hochzeitsfeier...

Study score of The Three Kings, A Christmas Cantata for SATB soli, chorus and orchestra. Texts by George Mackay Brown and mediaeval, anonymous. This work was commissioned by the London Symphony Chorus...

This work was commissioned by the University of British Columbia through the gift of David Lemon. It was first performed on 11th May 1997 at the Chan Center, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,...

This work was commissioned by Alistair Grant to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the second Jacobite rising (1745-6). It was first performed on 15th October 1997 at the City Halls, Glasgow, conduc...

A haunting setting of four elegies from the writing of George Mackay Brown, composed by Peter Maxwell Davies. Completed in 1998, this powerful and unsettling work is based upon four short verses that...

In his 80th year, Peter Maxwell Davies returns in music to Rome, where he studied with Goffredo Petrassi in the late 1950's. Full of darkly glowing sonorities (recalling the earlier Roma, Amor of 1998...

In his 80th year, Peter Maxwell Davies returns in music to Rome, where he studied with Goffredo Petrassi in the late 1950's. Full of darkly glowing sonorities (recalling the earlier Roma, Amor of 1998...

HPS 1110 For Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra.

comissioned by the City of Darmstadt for the Darmstadt State Theatre. Orchestration: 1(pic:afl)01(A.bcl)+asx.1(cbn)/1110/2perc/gtr(bjo.ebgtr)/pf(out of tune upr. pf.cel.Hmorg)/str(mltpl or sgl)/on-stg...

If Davies's Cello Concerto has already evoked comparisons with Elgar's, that is perhaps an indication not only of its wealth of solo melody (there is hardly a page where the cello is not singing, or i...

Unusually for him, Davies starts his Bassoon Concerto not with slow music but with speed and brilliance: the opening is a Presto, initiated by the strings, and only at the entry of the soloist does th...

The first in a trilogy of works for chamber orchestra, the Sinfonia Concertante uses its forces very much in concerto fashion - and not least its timpanist, who signals the work to start and has a rea...

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...

Davies's feeling for the potency and bravura of the clarinet goes back to works of the 1960s; his concerto for the instrument is predictably a big, ranging piece, in two linked movements. The first, f...

HPS 1266

HPS 1171

HPS 1174