for bass clarinet and strings. Par DAVIES PETER MAXWELL. Commissioned by the St Magnus Festival and first performed there in 2007, The Seas of Kirk Swarf, like many of the composer’s works, draws inspiration from the Orkney Isles where Maxwell Davies lives. Kirk Swarf is a stretch of sea off the Holms of Ire, two small uninhabited islands off Sanday, Orkney and as the name suggests, on shore is a…

Une carte d'anniversaire du Prince Charles ' a été écrit pour le Club Fiddle Sanday, à l'occasion du soixantième anniversaire de son Altesse royale le Prince de Galles. Sanday est une des îles Orcades, l'archipel que, depuis 1970, Maxwell Davies a fait sa maison. Le Club de violon de Sanday est un groupe de niveau mixte pour la communauté. Ce travail est donc destiné à être apprécié par tous les a…

for piano quartet. Par DAVIES PETER MAXWELL. 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 turned out. 2010 is a Chopin year, and I made this pair of nocturnes into a little tribute, after playing through and listening to most of his output. Never bef…

for baritone and piano. Par DAVIES PETER MAXWELL. Opening simply with a solo voice, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Italian settings of eight poems by Renaissance artist Michelangelo for baritone and piano take both the performers and audience on a striking journey through Michelangelo’s tortured and knotty Tuscan poetry. The piano is introduced in the second of the eight settings punctuating the vocal …

for string quartet and string orchestra. Par DAVIES PETER MAXWELL. Having previously been granted the diploma of the Bologna Academy in December 2011, Maxwell Davies wrote his Concerto Accademico as both an expression of gratitude to the Regia Academia Filarmonico di Bologna and also in part “a presentation of academic qualification, to justify this singular honour”. The work is scored for string …

Par LIVINGSTONE ANGELA / MAXWELL DONALD. 25 popular works for baritone or bass voice with piano accompaniment featuring selected works from the major exam board syllabuses, spanning Grades 5 to 8 and beyond. Includes a preface and performance notes by Donald Maxwell and Angela Livingstone, and a digital version of the book to view on any device./ Recueil / Baryton ou Basse et Piano

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 orchestras. This work wascommissioned as a tribute to mark the seventieth birthday of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and was performed nationwide throughout the 2004/5 season.The Kestrel Road is a song-cycle for SA…

Une carte d'anniversaire du Prince Charles ' a été écrit pour le Club Fiddle Sanday, à l'occasion du soixantième anniversaire de son Altesse royale le Prince de Galles. Sanday est une des îles Orcades, l'archipel que, depuis 1970, Maxwell Davies a fait sa maison. Le Club de violon de Sanday est un groupe de niveau mixte pour la communauté. Ce travail est donc destiné à être apprécié par tous les a…