Peter Maxwell Davies

An attractive short piece for Nativity which makes an ideal concert item, for unison voices and piano (with words by George Mackay Brown), commissioned by The Times for Christmas 1993.

Three songs and scenes linked by instrumental transitions make up this exciting story about a robbery with a car chase! Scope for a large group of children to be involved. The copiable parts book cont...

This work was written to celebrate the Diamond Wedding of Her Majesty the Queen and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh.

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...

Peter Maxwell Davies' 1990 work for unaccompanied SATB choir, written for the BBC singers. Words by George Mackay Brown. 'Written for the BBC Singers, this piece requires a high level of choral expert...

This work was commissioned for the choir of St. Paul's Old Church, Edinburgh, who gave the first performance on the 11th of June 1989 at St. Giles' Church, Edinburgh, conducted by Leslie Shankland. Th...

Commissioned by the International Organ Festival Nürnberg Musica Sacra to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. If this glorious, full-blooded, passionate oratorio doesn't pierce, wound and ravish even...

The inspiring journey of the three kings to Bethlehem is beautifully told through words and music in Peter Maxwell Davies' wonderful setting of George Mackay Brown's text. The piece is arranged for SS...

Peter Maxwell Davies sets Barbara Newman's translation of a text by Hildegard von Bingen, for SATB chorus and Organ. The work was commissioned by Epsom College to celebrate the one hudred and fiftieth...

Gray's Pier was commissioned by Andreas Klatt for Farnham Youth Choir. From Following a Lark by George Mackay Brown. For unaccompanied choir SSA. Piano accompaniment on the score for rehearsal purpose...

For SSSAAATTBBB (with soli) and Organ. Dedicated to Her Majesty The Queen, in the year of her Diamond Jubilee. Commissioned by the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral in celebration of the terce...

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...

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.

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...

A Torrent Of Gold is a work for SSA Chorus and Piano Accompaniment by Peter Maxwell Davies. Commissioned by Hurstpierpoint College, the first performance was on 15th January 2016. A setting of a poem...

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...