A haunting setting of four elegies from the writing of George Mackay Brown composed by Peter Maxwell Davies. Completed in 1998 this powerful and unsettling work is based upon four short verses that explore the more sinister tragic and even supernatural qualities of the oceans and tides. Composed for soloists mixed chorus and Orchestra the work was commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra…

Point de départ est une collection de quatre morceaux écrits pour le Club de violon de Sanday. Tout d'abord réalisés dans leur intégralité en 2006 au St Magnus Festival, les noms de la musique sont des noms de lieux sur les îles Orcades. Evocateur et sans prétention, le caractère attrayant et la souplesse de ces oeuvres reflète leur genèse. Ils sont adaptés à des fins diverses et peuvent être joué…

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 his larger-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 19…

Stormwatch Stormfall by Peter Maxwell Davies was commissioned by the Aventa Ensemble with assistance from the Scottish Arts Council.

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 exploited as far aspossible. The setting is a mythical journey of the No. 11 bus in London which runs between Liverpool Street and Hammersmith. This can be adapted to suit the needs of the particular gr…

Peter Maxwell Davies. Cinderella is a light-hearted pantomime opera based on the traditional story with a few new twists by the composer. The first performances of ‘Cinderella’ were given by children in Kirkwall in the OrkneyIslands who were non-specialist and had shown no unusual interest in or aptitude for music. All vocal parts are written within the range of children’s normal unbroken …

POD-A Torrent Of Gold is a work for SSA Chorus and Piano Accompaniment by Peter Maxwell Davies. Commissioned by Hurstpierpoint College the first performance was on 15th January 2016. A setting of apoem by George Mackay Brown a full performance lasts around 2 minutes.

The set of parts for Maxwell Davies's Naxos Quartet Six for strings. This work was commissioned by the Naxos Recording Company and is the sixth in a series of ten quartets. It was first performed on 26th April 2005 at the PurcellRoom London by the Maggini Quartet.

Maxwell Davies' 1981 piano sonata dedicated to the memory of Charles Senior. The first performance was given by Stephen Pruslin at the Bath Festival in May 1981.