Peter Maxwell Davies

This consists of five short movements. They were written for the Sunday lunchtime magazine programme, 'Not Now, I'm Listening' and were first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 6 November 1977. The work was...

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 is a work for 10 players. It was composed in 1969.

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...

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...

This work was first performed in June 1984 by Rosemary Furniss (violin) and Gregory Knowles (cimbalom). Set of parts. Duration c. 12mins.

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...

House Of Winter is a setting of four Christmas poems by George Mackay Brown, for AATBBB or SATBBB a cappella choir. The music is continuous, and though scored for unaccompanied voices, it becomes almo...

Sea Runes is scored for unaccompanied choir AATBBB or SATBBB set to text by George Mackay Brown. It is a haunting and evocative setting of a group of six poems by the Orkney poet, George Mackay Brown...

This motet for unaccompanied SATB choir was commissioned for the 500th anniversary of King's College, Cambridge. This is a setting in Greek of an Orthodox prayer to Christ as Son and Word, God and Man...

Corpus Christi, With Cat And Mouse is a setting of fragments selected from the Richard Hill Commonplace Book, an early 16th century manuscript in the library of Balliol College, Oxford. Commissioned b...

Peter Maxwell Davies' 1994 work for unaccompanied SATB choir, using text from George Mackay Brown's 1971 poem A Hoy Calendar. A girdle round the year in five minutes. In twelve clear, simple images Ge...

Il Rozzo Martello for unaccompanied choir SATB, by Peter Maxwell Davies, was commissioned by BBC Radio 3. It was first performed on 14th August 1997 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, by the BBC Sin...

A setting of the Liber Usualis plainsong for unaccompanied SATB chorus, written for the Feast Of he Archangel St. Michael. The piece was first performed by the Chior Of Westminster Abbey in July 2004...

A solemn prayer setting by Peter Maxwell Davies of a text from Liber Usualis, for unaccompanied SSATB chorus. The setting was first performed in May 2005 at the St. Magnus Cathedral, Orkney, conducted...

Ave Maria, Hail Blessed Flower (Op. 17) was written in 1961, and premiered at Cirencester Grammar School. It is a simple Christmas carol for unaccompanied SATB choir. It uses the image of the Virgin M...

The task: to write a piece that could involve children as players, singers and composers alongside a professional symphony or chamber orchestra. The solution: a peace-cry for the biosphere, in which t...

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...