Peter Maxwell Davies Sheet Music for Ensemble

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

This short work (4 minutes) was commissioned by the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral for their National Millennium Service for England and has since become popular with choirs everywhere. It ca...

Study score of the Quintet for Trumpet and String Quartet. This work was commissioned by the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen City Council and the Cheltenham International Festival of Music. It was fi...

Sopran, Alt und Instrumentalensemble

Sopran, Alt und Instrumentalensemble

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 'John' is John Carewe, a conductor associated with Davies's music since the 1950s. This fiftieth birthday present is quite a substantial little piece in three movements, the first an Allegro in wh...

Klavierauszug (zugleich Partitur)

This highly complex and virtuosic ensemble work shows that even in his 80s Sir Peter Maxwell Davies shows no signs of taking it easy. Composed in Italy in 2012, The Trojan Games depicts a sequence of...

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...

Instrumentation: Piccolo (doublind Flute) * Clarinet in Bb * Percussion (1 Player) * Harpsichord (dbl. upright, out-of-tune Piano) * Violin * Cello.

Instrumentation: Flute (doubling Piccolo) - Oboe - Clarinet in A (dbl. Bass Clarinet) - Horn in F - Trumpet in C - Trombone - Percussion (3 Players) - Harp - String Quartet.

Männerstimme und Instrumentalensemble (Flöte, Klarinette in B, Percussion, Klavier, Violine, Violoncello).

HPS 1290.

Chamber opera in a prologue and one act. A ghost story telling of the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in the Hebrides. This is a mystery story in the form of a chamber opera. The...

This work for chamber ensemble was written for Gregory Knowles and The Fires Of London, who gave the first performance at the 1982 Lucerne Festival at the Municipal Theatre of Lucerne. Miniature score...

Composed in homage to William Glock, this single movement has something of the character of a slow fugue, on a theme deeply imbued with minor thirds. The woodwinds (including bass clarinet in B flat)...

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

The No. 11 Bus is a music-theatre work in which musicians, dancers and mime all play an equal part. It has been described as an apocalyptic comedy, and both comic and terrifying elements should be exp...