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.
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.
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..
Orchestra SKU: HL.14020966 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sa...(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14020966
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. Classical. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
1999. 34 pages. Chester
Music #CH61015. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14020966).
ISBN
9780711960930.
Orch
estral 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.
Orchestra SKU: HL.14021044 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sa...(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14021044
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Studyscore. Composed
2002. 114 pages. Chester
Music #CH61797. Published
by Chester Music
(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.
Orchestra SKU: HL.14020999 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sa...(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14020999
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Studyscore. Composed
2001. 40 pages. Chester
Music #CH61358. Published
by Chester Music
(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.
Orchestra SKU: HL.14020998 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sa...(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14020998
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. Classical. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
1999. 8 pages. Chester
Music #CH60356. Published
by Chester Music
(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.
Orchestra (Score) SKU: HL.14008392 Caroline Mathilde Act I (Concert Su...(+)
Orchestra (Score)
SKU:
HL.14008392
Caroline Mathilde Act
I (Concert Suite).
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
1999. 74 pages. Chester
Music #CH60949. Published
by Chester Music
(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.
Orchestra
(pic.2.afl.2.ca.2Acl.0.bc
l.2.cbsn-4.3.2.btbn.1-tim
p.3perc(glsp, mar, crot,
tub bells, bell tree,
2sus cym, clash cym,
claves, b.d, wdbl)-str)
SKU: HL.49018422
Reflections on the
life and work of Paula
Modersohn-Becker
(1876-1907). Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Das 30minutige
Orchesterwerk in drei
Satzen, das von den
Bremer Philharmonikern in
Auftrag gegeben und von
diesen 2007 uraufgefuhrt
wurde, gehort zu den
Schlusselwerken von
Maxwell Davies der
letzten Jahre. Study
score. Composed 2006. Op.
276. 8 pages. Duration
30'. Schott Music
#ED13366. Published by
Schott Music
(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.
Orchestra SKU: HL.14021038 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sa...(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14021038
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. Composed 2002. 40
pages. Chester Music
#CH63723. Published by
Chester Music
(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.
String quartet and string orchestra (Study Score) SKU: HL.49043956 For...(+)
String quartet and string
orchestra (Study Score)
SKU: HL.49043956
For string quartet and
string orchestra.
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Study Score. Softcover.
Composed 2012. Op. 319.
52 pages. Duration 20'.
Schott Music #ED13628.
Published by Schott Music
(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.
Ave Maris Stella Orchestre [Conducteur d'étude / Miniature] Boosey and Hawkes
Orchestra (Study Score) SKU: HL.48011522 For Instrumental Ensemble...(+)
Orchestra (Study Score)
SKU: HL.48011522
For Instrumental
Ensemble. Composed by
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
This edition: M060095337.
Boosey & Hawkes
Scores/Books. Classical,
Contemporary. 46 pages.
Boosey & Hawkes
#M060095337. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48011522).
Points and Dances Orchestre [Conducteur d'étude / Miniature] Boosey and Hawkes
Orchestra (Study Score) SKU: HL.48010126 From the Opera Taverner. ...(+)
Orchestra (Study Score)
SKU: HL.48010126
From the Opera
Taverner. Composed by
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
Boosey & Hawkes
Scores/Books. Classical,
Contemporary, Opera.
Boosey & Hawkes
#M060037665. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48010126).
Orchestra (Study Score) SKU: HL.48011523 For Double Bass and Orchestra...(+)
Orchestra (Study Score)
SKU: HL.48011523
For Double Bass and
Orchestra. Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. This edition:
M060095344. Boosey &
Hawkes Scores/Books.
Classical, Concerto,
Contemporary. 48 pages.
Boosey & Hawkes
#M060095344. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48011523).
Chamber Orchestra (Full Score) SKU: HL.49014912 Serenade for Chamber O...(+)
Chamber Orchestra (Full
Score)
SKU:
HL.49014912
Serenade for Chamber
Orchestra. Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. This edition:
ED12491. Sheet music.
Edition Schott.
Classical. Score.
Composed 1994. Op. 168.
55 pages. Duration 17'.
Schott Music #ED 12491.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49014912).
ISBN
9790220118128. UPC:
073999794465.
8.25x11.75x0.207
inches.
Orchestra (Full Score) SKU: HL.48012155 (Antarctic). Composed by S...(+)
Orchestra (Full Score)
SKU: HL.48012155
(Antarctic).
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. This
edition: M060113932.
Boosey & Hawkes
Scores/Books. Classical,
Contemporary. 126 pages.
Boosey & Hawkes
#M060113932. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48012155).
ISBN
9780851623696. UPC:
073999121551.
9.0x12.0x0.333
inches.
Study Score Cello; Orchestra (Score) SKU: HL.48011042 For Dancer, Solo...(+)
Study Score Cello;
Orchestra (Score)
SKU:
HL.48011042
For
Dancer, Solo Cello and
Instrumental
Ensemble. Composed by
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
This edition: M060079443.
Boosey & Hawkes
Scores/Books. Classical,
Contemporary. Score. 56
pages. Boosey & Hawkes
#M060079443. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48011042).
Orkney Saga II Orchestre [Conducteur d'étude / Miniature] Boosey and Hawkes
Study Score for Orchestra Orchestra; Score (Study Score) SKU: HL.48022985 ...(+)
Study Score for Orchestra
Orchestra; Score (Study
Score)
SKU:
HL.48022985
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Boosey & Hawkes
Scores/Books. Classical.
Softcover. 45 pages.
Boosey & Hawkes
#M060116643. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48022985).
ISBN
9780851629292. UPC:
884088965686.
5.25x7.5x0.197
inches.
Worldes Blis Orchestre [Conducteur d'étude / Miniature] Boosey and Hawkes
Orchestra (Study Score) SKU: HL.48011360 Motet for Orchestra. Comp...(+)
Orchestra (Study Score)
SKU: HL.48011360
Motet for
Orchestra. Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Boosey & Hawkes
Scores/Books. Sacred. 146
pages. Boosey & Hawkes
#M060090899. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48011360).
Trumpet 2 in Bb.
Composed by Various.
Edited by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Classical. Individual
part. 4 pages. Schott
Music #ED 10994-11.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49029690).
ISBN
9790220107054.
Thes
e 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.
Orchestra (Study Score) SKU: HL.49014150 For Orchestra. Composed b...(+)
Orchestra (Study Score)
SKU: HL.49014150
For Orchestra.
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. This
edition: Paperback/Soft
Cover. Sheet music.
Edition Schott.
Classical. Study Score.
Composed 1958. Op. 8. 98
pages. Duration 20'.
Schott Music #ED10709.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49014150).
ISBN
9790220104343. UPC:
073999872170.
8.5x11.75x0.372
inches.
Orchestra (Study Score) SKU: HL.48011338 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Da...(+)
Orchestra (Study Score)
SKU: HL.48011338
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Boosey &
Hawkes Scores/Books.
Classical, Contemporary,
Overture. 46 pages.
Boosey & Hawkes
#M060090202. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48011338).
A Choreographic Poem for Orchestra. By Peter Maxwell Davies. (Study Score). Boo...(+)
A Choreographic Poem for
Orchestra. By Peter
Maxwell Davies. (Study
Score). Boosey and Hawkes
Scores and Books. 132
pages. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes.
Orkney Saga V Orchestre [Conducteur d'étude / Miniature] Boosey and Hawkes
Orchestra (Study Score) SKU: HL.48022984 Westerly Gale in Biscay, Salt...(+)
Orchestra (Study Score)
SKU: HL.48022984
Westerly Gale in
Biscay, Salt in the Bread
Broken Orchestra and SATB
Chorus. Composed by
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
Boosey & Hawkes
Scores/Books. Classical.
Softcover. 58 pages.
Boosey & Hawkes
#M060116667. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(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.
Orchestra (Study Score) SKU: HL.49019393 Study Score. Composed by ...(+)
Orchestra (Study Score)
SKU: HL.49019393
Study Score.
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Study Score. Classical,
Contemporary. Softcover.
Composed 2011. Op. 309.
28 pages. Duration 8'.
Schott Music #ED13521.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49019393).
ISBN
9790220133749. UPC:
888680014025.
8.25x12.0x0.149
inches.