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...

This is an adaptation made by the composer from the last section of Westerlings, for unaccompanied miexed chorus, which was written for the Uppsala Akademiska Kammerkör to mark the quincentenary of th...

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.

Immerse yourself in captivating soundscapes with "Two Piano Pieces", published by the renowned Chester Music. This exceptional sheet music edition for solo piano brings together two striking pieces: "...

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' 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...

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 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...

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...

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...