SKU: HL.14021025
ISBN 9780711986138. 5.5x7.5x0.164 inches.
Miniature Score. This work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It was first performed on 13th May 1998 London. This piece is based on a genuine old tune 'Maxwell's Strathspey' which the composer found in an 1824 collection of Scottish melodies, and which unfolds at the start of the piece on solo cello. Variations and a bold up-tempo to the quick dance we know as a reel ultimately yield to the magic that has been promised right at the start: the northern lights take over at the end of the piece. Its inspiration comes from a walk to a community event in Hoy Hall, during which Davies saw the lights in the sky pulsing in and out of time with the sounds coming from the hall. Duration 12 minutes. Conductor's score and orchestral parts are available on hire.
SKU: HL.14008415
UPC: 884088808242. 8.5x11.0x0.261 inches.
This work, written by Maxwell Davies in 1983 for chamber orchestra, was commissioned to celebrate the quartercentenary of Edinburgh University. The first performance was given by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Edward Harper in October 1983. Duration c. 29mins. This work was thought through in outline following a visit to the ruined pre-Reformation church of Hoy in Orkney, on a fine Spring afternoon after Maxwell Davies had played the harmonium for the tiny congregation in its large bleak Victorian replacement. The old church was surrounded by the graves of centuries, the more recent ones with familiar names, largely of people who lived in houses now ruinous - crofters, fishermen, clerics, sea-captains. Next to it stood the chief farmhouse, the Bu, going back to Viking times. He thought of the lives and deaths encompassed there, expressed through hundreds of years of music in the church, and in the big barn of the farm. The plainsongs 'Dies Irae' and 'Victimae Paschali Laudes' are used throughout the work - the first concerning the Day of Judgement, from the Mass for the Dead, the second particular to Easter Sunday and the Resurrection. These are subject to constant transformation - the intervallic contour slowly changes from one into the other, and their notes are made to dance through Renaissance astrological 'magic square' patterns. The orchestra consists of double woodwind, two horns, two trumpets and strings.
SKU: HL.14021000
ISBN 9780711959927. 5.5x7.5x0.2 inches.
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 gives rise to 'national anthems' of various kinds and instrumental colourings. Finally the 'anthems' are combined, 'if not triumphantly', Davies says, 'at least in a manner whereby they get along together'. The first performance took place in June 1995 in Nottingham. It was given by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Peter Maxwell Davies. Score (miniature). Duration c. 14mins.
SKU: HL.14020988
ISBN 9781846090059. UPC: 884088435233. 5.5x7.5x0.303 inches.
Spinning Jenny is a portrait of Leigh, Lancashire circa 1948 and one of a series of occasional pieces inspired by Davies' youth in Salford. Spinning Jenny Street was a noisy, hazardous street, clangerous with industry and activity when davies was at Grammar school in 1945. A modest work, but one which reflects many aspects of the place, period and people it was inspired by. Commissioned by the BBC, it was first performed on 21st July 199 as part of the BBC promenade concert at the Royal Albert Hall by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Davies himself. This is the miniature format of the full orchestral score..
SKU: HL.14020966
ISBN 9780711960930.
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 of what is practical for them. And as so often, the result is a piece in which he thinks youthfully. This is vividly dramatic music. Score. Duration c. 7mins.
SKU: HL.14021044
ISBN 9780711984813.
Roma, Amor, Labyrinthos for orchestra was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and first performed on 2nd May 2000 at the Barbican Hall, London. The Independent, May 2000: Roma, Amor, Labyrinthus captures the composers recollections of Rome as a student in the late '50s under Goffredo Petrassi, to whom the work is dedicated... [this is] one of Sir Peter's most spectacular scores, evoking the might of the ancient city from a very personal viewpoint. Duration 43 minutes. Conductor's score and orchestral parts are available on hire.
SKU: HL.14020998
ISBN 9780711930766. UPC: 884088435059. 5.5x7.5 inches.
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 composer just six days after Vyman's death. Approximately six minutes in duration, it is based on the plainsong 'Cor meum et caro mea exultaverunt in Deum vivum' and is scored for two oboes, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings.
SKU: HL.14020999
ISBN 9780711983823. 7.0x10.0x0.141 inches.
Study Score of Throstle's Nest Junction for orchestra. This work was commissioned by the BBC, first performed on 16th November 1996, by the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by the composer. Duration c. 15 minutes. Conductor's score and orchestral parts are available on hire.
SKU: HL.14008392
ISBN 9780711936942.
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, Christian VII. The ballet portrays her unhappy marriage, the King's growing madness and her fatal love-affair with Struensee, the King's influential physician, which leads to their arrest, his execution and her exile, at the age of 20, separated from her two young children. In keeping with the period, and perhaps also with the traditions of Romantic ballet, the music is relatively simple in harmony and form, and most of the action is conveyed in set-piece dances. The suite, which consists essentially of the second half of Act I, begins with one of these, a bristling interplay of wind and string ensembles in D major, portraying in the ballet a curious nuptial game with the king and princess on movable pedestals. The slow music that follows has to do with the king's healing by Dr. Struensee and the new queen's unquiet reverie (oboe and cor anglais solos). Then the suite, like the act, is capped by a pair of pas-de-deux, the first savage and bizarre for the royal couple, the second rich and passionate for the queen and the miracle-working doctor. Score (miniature). Duration c. 25mins.
SKU: HL.49018422
ISBN 9790220132391. UPC: 884088614515. 8.25x11.75x0.232 inches.
Maxwell Davies' 'Das Rauschende der Farbe' (The Sound of Colour) is a reflection on the life and work of the German artist Paula Modersohn-Becker who died aged 31 in 1907. Maxwell Davies first got to know the artist's work whilst on a school exchange in Hamburg in 1951 and the composer has since written that Modersohn-Becker's work has influenced the way that he views the relationship between art and the landscape in which it is produced. This is a particularly significant statement for a composer whose music is often a response to the land and seascape of his adopted home in the Orkney Isles. Commissioned by the Bremer Philharmoniker and first performed by them in 2007, the 30 minute orchestral work in three movements is one of the key works by Maxwell Davies in recent years.
SKU: HL.14021038
ISBN 9780711991248. 5.5x7.5x0.148 inches.
Peter Maxwell Davies' Swinton Jig was inspired by his youth spent in Salford. These variations on a traditional melody portray the community spirit during wartime and the impromptu concerts and dances held within the air shelters. The instrumentation reflects this, with banjos, bells, bones and horns, and even an out of tune upright piano! This work was commissioned by the BBC and first performed in November 1998 by the BBC Philharmonic. In miniature pocket score format.
SKU: HL.49043956
ISBN 9790220134647. UPC: 888680030902. 8.25x11.75x0.153 inches.
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 quartet and string orchestra and is based on a plainsong chant, heard at the outset, associated with the Holy Spirit descending upon the disciples at Pentecost, and their subsequent speaking in tongues.
SKU: HL.48011523
UPC: 073999997477. 5.5x7.5x0.145 inches.
HPS 1266.
SKU: HL.49014912
ISBN 9790220118128. UPC: 073999794465. 8.25x11.75x0.207 inches.
SKU: HL.48022985
ISBN 9780851629292. UPC: 884088965686. 5.25x7.5x0.197 inches.
Hawkes Pocket Score # 1378.
SKU: HL.48011360
UPC: 073999172737. 5.5x7.5x0.369 inches.
HPS 1198.
SKU: HL.49014150
ISBN 9790220104343. UPC: 073999872170. 8.5x11.75x0.372 inches.
SKU: HL.48022984
ISBN 9780851629315. UPC: 884088965709. 5.25x7.5x0.225 inches.
The fifth work in a fourteen composition cycle, Orkney Sagas, inspired by an exhibition at the 1993 St Magnus Festival in Orkney. The exhibition featured canvasses commemorating the 1151 crusade to Jerusalem.
SKU: HL.49019985
ISBN 9790220133886. UPC: 888680013462. 8.25x12.0x0.147 inches.
SKU: HL.48022986
ISBN 9780851629308. UPC: 884088965693. 5.25x7.5x0.225 inches.
Hawkes Pocket Score # 1380.
SKU: HL.48011522
UPC: 073999319224. 5.5x7.5x0.128 inches.
HPS 1264.
SKU: HL.48010126
UPC: 073999540192. 5.5x7.5 inches.
HPS 912.
SKU: HL.48012155
ISBN 9780851623696. UPC: 073999121551. 9.0x12.0x0.333 inches.
SKU: HL.48011042
UPC: 073999845648. 5.5x7.5x0.139 inches.
HPS 1148.
SKU: HL.49029690
ISBN 9790220107054.
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 orchestras of high standard.
SKU: HL.48011338
UPC: 073999759686. 5.5x7.5x0.123 inches.
HPS 1194.
SKU: HL.49019393
ISBN 9790220133749. UPC: 888680014025. 8.25x12.0x0.149 inches.
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