The first in a series of Ten quartets commissioned by the Naxos recording company. First performed at Wigmore Hall London in Oct 2002 by the Maggini Quartet. A convenient miniature-sized version of the score intended for study.Performance parts are available available: CH65648-01

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 the 1930s and the suiteincludes careful and wickedly acute notations of period conventions; swoops sickly vibratos toy percussion instruments and the rest. Arrangements of the songs with piano links are followed by a fantasy in which the heroinedreams up dances by Davies himself.

/ Flûte Traversière, Hautbois, Clarinette (En Sib), Basson, Cor Français, Alto, Violoncelle Et Percussions (7 joueurs)

This work was commissioned by the Naxos Recording Company and is the eighth in a series of ten quartets. It was first performed on 10th March 2006 by the Maggini Quartet at St. Gregory’s Centre Canterbury Christ ChurchUniversity Canterbury as part of the Sounds New Festival.Naxos Quartet No. 8 is dedicated to Her Majesty the Queen on her 80th birthday.

The solo flute here is kept in high profile by the absence from the orchestra not only of other flutes but also of violins and oboes; in addition the trumpets are used sparingly (they do not for instance play in the slowmovement) so that for much of the time the flute is playing against a mellow ensemble of clarinets horns bassoons and low strings. If this is nevertheless one of Davies's most open-spirited pieces that comes partly from theready flights of the soloist partly from its glockenspiel accompaniments in the outer movements (replaced by ticking claves in the Adagio) partly from the dancing character of so much of the music and partly from the harmonicclarity in a light region not far from C minor.

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This consists of five short movements. They were written for the Sunday lunchtime magazine programme ‘Not Now I’m Listening’ and were first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 6 November 1977. The work was first performed in concert bythe Fires of London at the 1978 Edinburgh Festival.

This work was a test piece for the International string Quartet competition in 2005 Premio Paulo Borciani It was inspired by a keyboard piece of the same name A Sad Paven for these Distracted Tymes by Thomas Tomkins(1572-1656). Tomkins had a long association with Worcester Cathedral where he was organist - appointed magister choristarum in 1596 - and lived within the precincts until shortly before his death. At the same time he wasorganist of the Chapel Royal. When the city of Worcester surrendered to Cromwell's parliamentary forces in 1646 Tomkins had to watch the hasty dismantling of his cathedral organ and the abolition of all choral services. Thesewere the 'distracted tymes' of the 'sad paven' which he wrote in enforced retirement at Worcester.

A superb cycle of 7 songs depicting the hero's stay on Grandma's farm somewhere in the Orkneys one summer. The songs tell of the farm chores nature and ghosts and are arranged for unison voices piano recorders and pitched or unpitched percussion. The songs can be used individually to link in with topic work or performed as an attractive concert item. Bass Xylophone part.This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.