Piano (Piano) SKU: HL.14020986 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Musi...(+)
Piano (Piano)
SKU:
HL.14020986
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. Classical. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
1999. 10 pages. Chester
Music #CH61243. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14020986).
ISBN
9780711960961. UPC:
884088442330.
9.0x12.0x0.071
inches.
Peter
Maxwell Davies wrote this
set of six short pieces
in 1993 as a gift for a
friend (a double bass
player and composer from
the BBC Philharmonic)who
was celebrating the birth
of his daughter. Despite
the reason for writing
them being most
'occasional', these
pieces are certainly not
lacking in musical
substance as one might
expect an 'occasional'
piece to be. These pieces
are ideal works for young
performers to introduce
them to playing modern
music or even as an
introduction to the broad
range of Maxwell Davies's
work.
Piano Solo SKU: HL.14024584 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music S...(+)
Piano Solo
SKU:
HL.14024584
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. Post-1900. Sheet
Music, Instrumental Work.
With Text language:
English. 12 pages. Music
Sales #CP56086. Published
by Music Sales
(HL.14024584).
UPC:
884088815264.
11.0x8.5x0.044
inches.
Peter
Maxwell Davies wrote this
set of six short pieces
in 1993 as a gift for a
friend (a double bass
player and composer from
the BBC Philharmonic) who
was celebrating the birth
of his daughter. Despite
the reason for writing
them being most
'occasional', these
pieces are certainly not
lacking in musical
substance as one might
expect an 'occasional'
piece to be. These pieces
are ideal works for young
performers to introduce
them to playing modern
music or even as an
introduction to the broad
range of Maxwell Davies's
work. This is a special
item which is made to
order. Please e-mail our
Mail Order Department for
further information.
Orchestra SKU: HL.14021025 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sa...(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14021025
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. Classical. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
2002. 48 pages. Chester
Music #CH61838. Published
by Chester Music
(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.
Organ (Organ) SKU: HL.14008428 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Musi...(+)
Organ (Organ)
SKU:
HL.14008428
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. Post-1900. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
1999. 8 pages. Chester
Music #CH55170. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14008428).
8.25x11.75x0.06
inches.
These are
all arrangements of
sixteenth-century
Scottish church music,
beginning with Psalm 124
by David Peebles, which
gains an athletic
counterpoint of Davies's
own. Then comes John
Fethy's O God Abufe
played straight, and
finally an anonymous
motet, All Sons of Adam,
again infiltrated by a
modern voice.
SATB Choir and Piano SKU: HL.14021021 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davie...(+)
SATB Choir and Piano
SKU: HL.14021021
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Music
Sales America. Choral.
Part. Composed 1999. 86
pages. Chester Music
#CH61481. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14021021).
ISBN
9780711975187. UPC:
884088440541. 9x12
inches.
A work for
SATB soli, SATB chorus
and orchestra, using a
variety of texts,
selected by Alistair
Grant, who commissioned
the work to commemorate
the 250th anniversary of
the Jacobite rising
(1745-6). It was first
performed in October 1997
in Glasgow by Lisa
Tyrrell (soprano),
Margaret McDonald (mezzo
soprano), Neil Mackie
(tenor) and David
Wilson-Johnson
(baritone), the Scottish
Chamber Orchestra Chorus
(chorus master Ben Parry)
and the Scottish Chamber
Orchestra, conducted by
the composer. Vocal score
with piano reduction of
the instrumental score.
Duration c. 40mins.
Horn and Orchestra SKU: HL.14021017 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies....(+)
Horn and Orchestra
SKU: HL.14021017
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Studyscore.
Composed 2001. 78 pages.
Chester Music #CH61757.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14021017).
ISBN 9780711984677.
5.5x7.5x0.082
inches.
This work
was commissioned by the
Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra. It was first
performed on 2nd May 2000
at the Barbican Centre,
London, conducted by
Peter Maxwell Davies.
Duration c.23 minutes.
Peter Maxwell Davies: The
horn writing is extremely
virtuoso throughout - not
least in exploring the
full range of the horn,
from the deepest notes in
the bass, normally
exclusive to an
orchestral fourth horn
player, to the highest,
most exposed sostenuto of
a first horn soloist,
presenting here
challenges of embouchure
and sheer stamina I
should think fairly
unprecedented. Solo part
and piano reduction on
sale (CH61758),
Conductor's score and
orchestral parts
available for hire.
Orchestra (Study Score) SKU: HL.14021000 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Da...(+)
Orchestra (Study Score)
SKU: HL.14021000
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover].
Composed 1999. 44 pages.
Chester Music #CH61307.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14021000).
ISBN 9780711959927.
5.5x7.5x0.2
inches.
Commissione
d 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.
Orchestra (Orchestra) SKU: HL.14008415 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davi...(+)
Orchestra (Orchestra)
SKU: HL.14008415
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Music
Sales America. Post-1900.
Sheet Music, Miniature
Score. With Text
language: English. 110
pages. Chester Music
#CH55687. Published by
Chester Music
(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.
Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone Voice, Orchestra SKU: HL.14020963 Composed by Sir...(+)
Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone
Voice, Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14020963
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. 20th Century.
Book Only. Composed 1999.
168 pages. Chester Music
#CH55386. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14020963).
9.0x12.0x0.5
inches.
Peter
Maxwell Davies' 1979 work
for mezzo-soprano,
baritone and orchestra,
commissioned by the
Philharmonia Orchestra,
who gave the first
performance in May 1992
at the Royal Festival
Hall, with Simon Rattle
conducting. The 'Black
Pentecost' is the coming
of uranium mining, which
was a threat to Orkney
when the work was
written. The text tells
of the destruction of old
ways of life, the eclipse
of the human by the
technological. Davies
sets it as a gripping
dramatic cantata which is
also a four-movement
symphony, with the songs
for imperious baritone
and lyrical mezzo-soprano
linked by orchestral
transitions. The work is
a lament, and at the same
time a fiercely argued
protest. Score. Duration
c. 40mins.
Flute and Harp SKU: HL.14021002 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Mus...(+)
Flute and Harp
SKU:
HL.14021002
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. Classical. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
1999. 10 pages. Chester
Music #CH60938. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14021002).
ISBN
9780711955103.
9.0x12.0x0.054
inches.
Two dances
for flute and harp from
Peter Maxwell Davies'
ballet Caroline Mathilde.
A new instrumentation
restores this linked pair
of dances from Davies's
second full-length
ballet, Caroline Mathilde
based on the story of the
eighteenth-century
British princess sent in
marriage to Denmark, to
the eighteenth-century
milieu of the work's
setting and musical
world. The period manners
- a gavotte in the first
dance, a gigue at the
start of the second - are
typically overlaid with
the composer's
Scottishness. In general
the harp has an
accompanying role, but it
comes forward alone in
the second movement,
which ends with bravura
from both instruments.
These two dances were
first performed in
September 1993 at the
Northlands Festival by
David Nicholson and
Eluned Pierce. Score and
flute part. Duration c.
5mins. Harp part edited
by Elune Pierce.
SATB Choir and Piano (Choral Score) SKU: HL.14008386 Composed by Sir Pete...(+)
SATB Choir and Piano
(Choral Score)
SKU:
HL.14008386
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. Classical. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
1999. 20 pages. Chester
Music #CH59618. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14008386).
ISBN
9780711927797. UPC:
884088447434.
7.0x10.0x0.051
inches.
Peter
Maxwell Davies' 1990 work
for unaccompanied SATB
choir, written for the
BBC singers. Words by
George Mackay Brown.
'Written for the BBC
Singers, this piece
requires a high level of
choral expertise in its
rhythms, intricate
textures (though nearly
always in four parts),
wide-ranging vocal lines
and characteristically
dark but luminous
harmony, impregnated with
tritones and seconds. Not
for the first time,
Davies and George Mackay
Brow follow the Stations
of the Cross, though the
fourteen sections are
joined into a continuous
slow-fast-slow musical
movement, and the
references to the events
of Holy Week are oblique.
Vocal score with piano
accompaniment for
rehearsal purposes.
Violin and Orchestra (Score) SKU: HL.14008406 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwe...(+)
Violin and Orchestra
(Score)
SKU:
HL.14008406
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. 20th Century.
Book [Softcover].
Composed 1999. 94 pages.
Chester Music #CH60978.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14008406).
ISBN
9780711948716.
A
work for solo violin and
orchestra, commissioned
by Donald McDonald for
the 21st birthday of the
Scottish Chamber
Orchestra and the 60th
birthday of the composer.
It was first performed in
November 1993 in Glasgow,
by James Clark and the
Scottish Chamber
Orchestra conducted by
Maxwell Davies. The spell
is one quoted by George
Mackay Brown in his book
An Orkney Tapestry: 'Let
not plough be put to acre
except a fiddle cross
first the furrow.'
Davies's dancing concerto
imagines the fiddler
following a route from
field to field, from
dance to dance,
accompanied by a bunch of
companions in the form of
an orchestra. As the
music goes on, so it gets
brighter and livelier,
moving from the dark
colouring of clarinets,
bassoons and strings to
full ensemble with
prominent brass and
(solo) tuned percussion,
as if the dancers as much
as the fields were
beginning to glow with
new life. Score
(miniature). Duration c.
20mins.
Flute, Piano Accompaniment - Intermediate-Advanced SKU: HL.14024588 Compo...(+)
Flute, Piano
Accompaniment -
Intermediate-Advanced
SKU: HL.14024588
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Music
Sales America. Post-1900.
Sheet Music, Instrumental
Work. With Text language:
English. Chester Music
#CH61595. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14024588).
UPC:
884088811372.
8.5x11.0x0.163
inches.
This
dreamlike and evocative
piece from Peter Maxwell
Davies was originally
composed for Flute and
orchesta. Here it is
presented as Flute with
Piano reduction and still
captures the wonder and
sanctuary of the
composer's home,
surrounded by seabirds
and seals that fire the
imagination in childlike
ways, evoking images of
mermaids and angels. The
Flute solo is both
tranquil and highly
virtuosic and is well
supported by the Piano
accompaniment. The piece
was first performed in
May 1999 at the Royal
Concert Hall, Dublin.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14008374 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Mus...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14008374
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. Composed 2006. 24
pages. Chester Music
#CH68629. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14008374).
ISBN
9781846096150. UPC:
884088435202.
8.25x11.75x0.105
inches.
The Full
Score for Peter Maxwell
Davies' fourth in a
series of ten string
quartets commissioned by
the Naxos Recording
company, first performed
by the Maggini Quartet on
20th August 2004 at the
Chapel of the Royal
Palace, Oslo, Norway, as
part of the Olso Chamber
Music Festival. Composer
Note: The fourth Naxos
quartet was written in
January and February of
2004, with the intention
of producing something
lighter and much less
fierce than its
predecessor, an
unpremeditated and
spontaneous reaction to
the illegal invasion of
Iraq. I returned to the
well-known Brueghel
picture of children's
games (1560, now in
Vienna), which had been
the inspiration for my
sixth Strathclyde
Concerto, for flute and
orchestra. These
illustrations liberated
my musical imagination,
but I feel it would limit
the listener's perception
to be too specific about
which game relates to
exactly which section of
the work. Suffice it to
say that there is
vigorous play -
leap-frog, bind the devil
with a cord, truss,
wrestling - alongside
quieter pastimes - masks,
guess whom I shall
choose, courting, odds
and evens. The single
movement juxtaposes these
activities as abruptly
and intimately as they
occur in Brueghel. Rather
as the eye is taken into
different perspectives
and proportions of scale
within the picture,
taking liberties which
would never be present
in, for instance,
Brunelleschi
architectural drawings,
so here, with a constant
sequence of
transformation processes,
I have distorted the
neat, precise
implications of modal
progression, expressed in
the unison opening phrase
(from F to B through A
sharp/B flat), so that
the ear is led, en route,
into the sound
equivalents of strange
passageways and closed
rooms: sicut exposition
ludus. As work on the
quartet progressed I
became aware that I was
reading into, and behind
the games, adult motives
and implications,
concerning aggression and
war, with their
consequences. It was
impossible to escape into
innocent childhood
fantasy. The nature of
the F to B progression
underlying the whole
construction derives from
a passage in the
development of the first
movement of Mahler's
Third Symphony, and the
opening of Schoenberg's
Second String Quartet.
However, unlike in these
models, here a real - if
temporary - sense of
resolution occurs at the
close of the quartet: as
when the curtain falls on
the reconciled Count and
Countess in 'Figaro' one
wonders how long the F/B
truce will hold, and
games break out again.
The quartet is dedicated
to Giuseppe Rebecchini,
Roman architect, and
friend since the
nineteen-fifties.
Percussion, Piano, Recorder, Voice SKU: HL.14021004 Composed by Sir Peter...(+)
Percussion, Piano,
Recorder, Voice
SKU:
HL.14021004
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. Education. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
1989. 48 pages. Chester
Music #CH61020. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14021004).
ISBN
9780711941830.
Pete
r Maxwell Davies. A
superb cycle of 7 songs
depicting the
hero/heroine'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.
18 mins.
Flute and Orchestra SKU: HL.14021039 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies...(+)
Flute and Orchestra
SKU: HL.14021039
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover].
Composed 2005. 52 pages.
Chester Music #CH61596.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14021039).
ISBN 9781844493425.
5.5x7.5x0.214
inches.
A dreamlike
and evocative work from
Peter Maxwell Davies for
flute and orchestra. The
piece captures the wonder
and sanctuary of the
composer's home,
surrounded by seabirds
and seals that fire the
imagination in childlike
ways, evoking images of
mermaids and angels.
Descriptive and inventive
orchestral colours
support and illuminate
the flute solo material
that is both tranquil and
highly virtuosic. The
piece was first performed
in May 1999 at the Royal
Concert Hall, Dublin.
SATB Choir, Orchestra SKU: HL.14021035 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davi...(+)
SATB Choir, Orchestra
SKU: HL.14021035
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Studyscore.
Composed 2005. 44 pages.
Chester Music #CH66253.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14021035).
ISBN 9780711998001.
Lyrics by George Mackay
Brown.
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 to celebrate
its 25th anniversary. The
work was first performed
in December 1998 at
Queen's Hall, Edinburgh,
conducted by the
composer. The vocal score
is available using
product code CH61504.
Orchestra SKU: HL.14020988 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sa...(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14020988
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. Score. Composed
2005. 62 pages. Chester
Music #CH69036. Published
by Chester Music
(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..
String Instruments, String Quartet (Score) SKU: HL.14008384 Composed by S...(+)
String Instruments,
String Quartet (Score)
SKU: HL.14008384
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Score. Composed 2006. 36
pages. Chester Music
#CH69839. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14008384).
ISBN
9781847723970.
8.25x11.75x0.149
inches.
The
complete String Quartet
score for Maxwell Davies'
Quartet No.6. 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
Purcell Room, London by
the Maggini Quartet.