Peter Maxwell Davies Sheet Music for Ensemble

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

Partitur und Stimmen

The two nocturnes were composed immediately after major surgery, against a deadline, and, despite the music sounding unlike anything I have written before, I decided to keep them exactly as they turne...

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

Flöte, Klarinette in B, Trompete in C, Posaune, Schlagwerk, Violine, Viola, Violoncello, Kontrabass

This piece was written as a tribute to the people of Fair Isle, a remote community that lies between Orkney and Shetland, which is also the home of the composer. The work was composed for the Grieg Tr...

Commissioned by the Primrose Piano Quartet with funding from the Scottish Arts Council, Mr and Mrs J. A. Pye's Charitable Settlement, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and the Hope-Scott...

The two nocturnes were composed immediately after major surgery, against a deadline, and, despite the music sounding unlike anything I have written before, I decided to keep them exactly as they turne...

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...

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...

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 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 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 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...

A Mediterranean, erotic postlude to a time when Davies had been much occupied with setting the Orkney poetry of George Mackay Brown. The voice, though, is the same. The mezzo part is wide-ranging and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...