Peter Maxwell Davies

Composed in London and Italy but inspired by Scottish fiddle writing, Max's sonata for solo violin is a reflective work that is both exuberant and nostalgic - a fantastic show piece from one of the UK...

Opening simply with a solo voice, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Italian settings of eight poems by Renaissance artist Michelangelo for baritone and piano take both the performers and audience on a strikin...

Mr Emmet represents an enigma: is he a business man with briefcase and umbrella pursuing the ultimate commercial contract, a double agent extorting a much shadier deal from a foreign power, or a tragi...

These 5 short voluntaries are arrangements of Jeremiah Clarke, William Croft, Pierre Attaignant and Louis Couperin. They make lively and interesting pieces suitable for youth orchestras or school orch...

First publication of the vocal score of this 1969 music-theatre work for male voice and ensemble, a landmark in the composer's career.The songs are a monologue by the King while he tries to teach his...

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...

This accessible motet is a companion piece for Lullabye for Lucy (ISMN 979-0-060-03760-3), which was composed for the birth of Lucy Rendall, the first child born in Rackwick, Hoy, for 32 years. Suscip...

Angelus is an important addition to the choral ensemble repertoire - highly charged, dramatic and challenging for any good choir.

Prayer of Thanksgiving was written to mark the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot in November 1605, which occurred during the months when London was experiencing a further time of terror after th...

Immerse yourself in the sonorous and profound musical world of 'Proverb op. 305' for mixed choir (SATB) and string orchestra. This expressive work seamlessly combines rich choral harmonies with the em...

For SATB choir Text by Mary MacDonald translated by Lachlan MacBean and from the bible Chorpartitur - with piano reduction for rehearsal only - gemischter Chor (SATB)

Text by George Mackay Brown and from The St Magnus Prayer.

In the spirit of the composer's now-famous Farewell to Stromness, this suite of short pieces takes its inspiration from the northern Orkney island of Sanday on which he lives. In three beautiful piano...

Instrumentation: Piccolo * Bass Clarinet * Violoncello * Percussion (1 player) * Piano.

These are all arrangements of sixteenth-century Scottish church music, beginning with Psalm 124 by David Peebles, which gains an athletic counterpoint of Davies's own. Then comes John Fethy's O God Ab...