Fanfare; Portsmouth is a work for Brass Ensemble composed by Peter Maxwell Davies. Commissioned by the New Theatre Royal Portsmouth to celebrate its re-opening it was first performed there on 11thMarch 2016. These are the Parts and a full performance lasts around 5 minutes.

This work commemorates the 50th anniversary of the untimely death of the brilliant Horn player Dennis Brain. The solo version is intended for instrumentalists of Grade 6 and above.Peter Maxwell Davies is among the most prolific iconoclastic versatile and energetic of contemporary British composers. Among the best known of his many works are Eight Songs for a Mad King The Lighthouse chamber ope…

Work for 2 Trumpets 2 Horns and 2 Trombones premiered in the Museum of Scotland in 1998 by members of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Maxwell Davies has relished incorporating brilliant tuckets and alarms for brass in hislarger-scale scores too much to write a perfunctory fanfare; a seminal influence was the statue of St. Michael on the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome where he studied in the late 195…

Fanfare Salute to Dennis Brain was commissioned with affection admiration and gratitude to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Dennis Brain in 1957. The first performances were given as part of the East MidlandsHorn Festival in the University of Nottingham Music Department and the Djanogly Recital Hall on 25th March 2007. The solo version was premiered by Michael Thompson; the ensemble vers…

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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 by the composer. The ukulele can be doubled by a mandolin. Duration c. 7mins

(Brass Ensemble)

SKU: HL.14063922

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Brass Ensemble. General Merchandise. Duration 240 seconds. Chester Music #CH83270. Published by Chester Music (HL.14063922).

Trumpet[Duet], French Horn[Duet], Trombone[Duet]

SKU: HL.14020969

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2003. 16 pages. Chester Music #CH61567. Published by Chester Music (HL.14020969).

ISBN 9781844491346. UPC: 88408843529…

Score and Parts. By Peter Maxwell Davies. Schott. 22 pages. Published by Schott.