Peter Maxwell Davies Sheet Music for Orchestra

These 5 short voluntaries are arrangements of Jeremiah Clarke, William Croft, Pierre Attaignant and Louis Couperin. They make lively and interesting pieces suitable for youth orchestras or school orch...

Commissioned to write a piece for the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, Davies provided a musical General Assembly of his own: a bright overture based on an Australian aboriginal song which give...

For Children's voices and Orchestra. Commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Proms. First performance in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen on 19th July 2006, in the Royal Albert Hall, London, by the B...

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...

Peter Maxwell Davies' 1979 work for mezzo-soprano, baritone and orchestra, commissioned by the Philharmonia Orchestra, who gave the first performance in May 1992 at the Royal Festival Hall, with Simon...

Composer's Notes:Dove, Star-Folded was written at Christmas, 2000, in memory of the recently deceased Sir Steven Runciman, who had been a friend for more than thirty years. It was he who owned the sma...

A dreamlike and evocative work from Peter Maxwell Davies for flute and orchestra. The piece captures the wonder and sanctuary of the composer's home, surrounded by seabirds and seals that fire the ima...

This work was commissioned by the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig. First performance on 22nd August 2009, at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, given by Daniel Hope (violin) and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, conducted...

This is the sacred comedy among Davies' pieces of music-theatre. Brought on by a children's wind band in a 7/8 march, the juggler presents himself at an abbey and is accepted by the abbot, the only si...

A short piece for small orchestra, written in 1989 when the composer heard of Michael Vyner's death. Premiered in October 1989 at Glyndebourne Sussex, by the London Sinfonietta and conducted by the co...

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...

A ballet in two acts which premiered on the stage of the Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen, on 14th March 1991. Based on the true story of the sister of George III, Caroline Mathilde (1751-1775), who a...

The story centres on the English princess Caroline Mathilde (1751-1775), sister of George III, who at the age of 15 was sent to Denmark to marry the 17-year-old eccentric and schizophrenic Danish King...

Orchestral work for school orchestra A short tone-poem which will let a school orchestra glow. Characteristically, Davies finds ways to engage and stretch young players while staying within the bounds...

In 1971 Davies adapted the original Sandy Wilson music, and wrote some of his own, for Ken Russell's film of The Boy Friend. The music, like the film, goes way over the top in reviving the style of th...

for Alto Flute, Clarinet in A, Harpsichord (doubleing Piano), Glockenspiel, Viola and Cello.

First Ferry to Hoy is the record of a real event - an encounter with a school of whales during the crossing in the small ferry (twelve passengers maximum) between Stromness and Hoy, in Orkney.

Instrumentation: Alto Flute, Clarinet, Crotales, Celesta, Viola and Violoncello. Contents: Si quis diligit me * All Sons of Adam * Out Father Whiche in Heaven Art * Psalm 124.