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 hornwriting 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 afirst 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.

Listing for Viola Part only.Orchestration: 2 Flutes 2 Oboes 2 Clarinets in Bb 2 Bassoons 2 Horns in F 2 Trumpets in Bb 3 Trombones Tuba Snare drum Strings (Violin 1 Violin 2 Viola Cello Bass)Peter Warlock wrote the Capriol Suite for Piano duet. He also produced a version for string orchestra and both were published in 1926. Two years later in 1928 he made this arrangement for full orchestra. This new edition corrects a few minor errors that were present in the 1928 edition published by Curwen and also shows the trumpets in Bb; they were shown in C originally. The six movements which are based on sixteenth century dance tunes are:- Basse-Danse Pavane Tordion Bransles Pieds-en-l´air Mattachins.

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 inNottingham. It was given by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Peter Maxwell Davies.Score (miniature). Duration c. 14mins.

Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Editeur(s) d'origine: Hauschild, Peter/ Répertoire / Orchestre

Orchestral work for school orchestraA 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 forthem. And as so often the result is a piece in which he thinks youthfully. This is vividly dramatic music. Score. Duration c. 7mins.

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 EdwardHarper 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 theharmonium 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 thechurch 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 toEaster 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.

This work was commissioned by the City of Darmstadt for the Darmstadt State Theatre. It was first performed in September 1988 at the Staatstheater Darmstadt. Written for full orchestra with large percussion section marchingband pop group and electronic vocal quartet. Duration c. 75mins.

This concert overture is a portrait of the Hoy island postman: a rumbustuous yarn-spinning character to judge by the music.Commissioned by the Scottish Postal Board and dedicated to the Board's Chairman Ian Barr inrecognition of his work on behalf of the St. Magnus festival Orkney. First performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1986. Written for full symphony orchestra. Score (miniature). Duration c. 9mins.

Blues for String Orchestra (Second Movement of American Dance Suite) available seperately (c. 5 minutes) EP 67151a / Grand Ensemble Contemporain Et Orchestre

Two-movement piece based on C.S. Lewis' The Great Divorce. Premiered by the Springfield Symphony Orchestra Peter Stafford Wilson Music Director. (2009) ca. 15'

Ce jeu de pratique et de l'édition étude marque la première en un seul volume la publication de cinq agrafes grands du répertoire orchestral: Jubilé Overture, Overture à l'Preciosa jeu, et des ouvertures à des opéras Der Freischütz, Euryanthe, et Obéron.L'un des premiers compositeurs de l'école romantique de la note de Carl Maria von Weber conçu conceptions nouvelles de la matière d'orchestration et sous réserve qui ont contribué à jeter les bases d'opéra du XIXe siècle. Marschner, Meyerbeer et Wagner ont été influencés par les travaux de Weber, ainsi que des derniers jours compositeurs tels que Paul Hindemith, Mahler, Stravinsky et Debussy, qui a remarqué que le son de l'orchestre de Weber dérivé de l'examen par le compositeur de l'âme de chaque instrument .Réimpression de 'Preciosa' à partir d'un Breitkopf et Härtel, Leipzig, sd édition. Tous les autres de Overtüren für Orchester von CM von Weber, C. F. Peters, Leipzig, n.d. / Orchestre

Considered by some as Verdi's finest composition this highly dramatic work combines original melodies with liturgical strains in a tour de force of melodic invention absolute technical mastery and virtuoso orchestration. This enduringly popular work is scored for four solo voices — Soprano Mezzo Soprano Tenor and Bass — chorus and Orchestra.Reproduced from the authoritative C. F. Peters edition.