Peter Maxwell Davies

Lyric opera in two acts. Libretto by David Pountney. Commissioned jointly by the Royal Academy of Music, London, UK and The Juilliard School, New York, USA. UK premiere: 18th March 2011 - Royal...

This short opera (duration of 50 minutes), aptly designed for children to perform with modest resources, is a version of the familiar tale, though with certain adaptations. Cinderella is an au pair gi...

With words by the composer, Otter Island, dedicated to June Keyte and the Children's Voices of Enfield, explores a descriptive narrative in combination with gently flowing music that has an occasional...

With words by the composer, 'Otter Island', dedicated to June Keyte and the Children's Voices of Enfield, explores a descriptive narrative in combination with gently flowing music that has an occasion...

Mass for Treble Voices and Organ. This work was first performed on 18th March 2003 during a celebration of Mass at Westminster Cathedral, by the boys of Westminster Cathedral Choir.

Written to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, this short choral work is suitable for professional, amateur and church choruses. The use of biblical texts (Isaiah) gives this piece a...

Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette (B), Fagott, Horn, Viola, Violoncello und Schlagzeug (7 Spieler)

The guitar, for Davies, seems to be an updated lute, and like his Elizabethan and Jacobean predecessors, he finds the sound of plucked strings suited both to dancing and to contemplation. The outer mo...

Maxwell Davies' 1981 piano sonata, dedicated to the memory of Charles Senior. The first performance was given by Stephen Pruslin at the Bath Festival in May 1981.

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. Despi...

This work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It was first performed on 7th November 1997 at the Royal Conference Hall, Nottingham, by Kathryn Stott and the Royal Philharmonic Orches...

Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) began piano lessons at the age of 8 and started to compose shortly afterwards. Over the next ten years he produced nearly thirty works. Much of this juvenilia was writ...

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...

Piccolo and Piano Reduction. This work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It was first performed on 23 April 1997, by Stewart McIlwham and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conduct...

This work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It was first performed on 2nd May 2000 at the Barbican Centre, London by Richard Watkins. Peter Maxwell Davies: The horn writing is extr...

This work, which was written shortly after the Trumpet Sonata and the Five Pieces For Piano, was first performed by Georgina Dobree and the composer at the 1957 Darmstadt Festival. The score was subse...