Peter Maxwell Davies

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.

Two pieces, Sub Tuam Protectionem and Ut Re Mi, written for Stephen Pruslin, to whom they are dedicated, and who gave the first performances (Sub Tuam Protectionem in 1970 and Ut Re Mi in 1971).

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' beguiling Oboe Quartet was written for longstanding collaborators the Hebrides Ensemble and dedicated to the eminent composer and conductor Oliver Knussen on his 60th birthday. Max com...

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...

A cantata for soprano, flute, violin, cello and harpsichord/celeste, first performed in August 1970 at Dartington Hall Summer School by Mary Thomas and the Pierrot Players conducted by the composer. D...

A work for speaker and chamber ensemble commissioned by the Globe Playhouse Trust Ltd. , and was first performed at the Globe Playhouse in April 1972 by Ron Moody and the London Sinfonietta conducted...

This was first performed as part of a BBC promenade concert at the Royal Albert Hall in July 1973 by The Fires Of London, conducted by the composer. The violin doubles the harpsichord. A basset clarin...

A Mediterranean, erotic postlude to a time when Davies had been much occupied with setting the Orkney poetry of George Mackay Brown. The voice, though, is the same. The mezzo part is wide-ranging and...

Alto Flute, Bass Clarinet, Cello, Glockenspiel, Guitar, Harpsichord, Marimba, Mezzo-Soprano, Viola, Violin, Celeste Davies discovers aspects of himself in examining one of his most troubled predecesso...

There are seven songs and an instrumental interlude, making all together an entertainment that provides opportunity for very simple stage action and dancing: nothing at all elaborate is needed in the...

A cantata for soprano, flute, violin, cello and harpsichord/celeste, first performed in August 1970 at Dartington Hall Summer School by Mary Thomas and the Pierrot Players conducted by the composer. D...

There are seven songs and an instrumental interlude, making all together an entertainment that provides opportunity for very simple stage action and dancing: nothing at all elaborate is needed in the...

Two dances for flute and harp from Peter Maxwell Davies' ballet Caroline Mathilde. A new instrumentation restores this linked pair of dances from Davies's second full-length ballet, Caroline Mathilde...

Peter Maxwell Davies. A humorous version of the Orkney folk tale of an islander kidnapping a Selkie wife - a creature who is a seal in the sea and a woman on the land. Things go hilariously wrong, wit...

Peter Maxwell Davies. A superb cycle of 7 songs depicting the hero/heroine's stay on Grandma's farm somewhere in the Orkneys one summer. The songs tell of the farm chores, nature and ghosts and are ar...