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.
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.
String Quartet (Score) SKU: HL.14008409 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Dav...(+)
String Quartet (Score)
SKU: HL.14008409
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Book Only.
Composed 1999. Chester
Music #CH55681. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14008409).
This is - so
far - the earliest
composition by Davies to
be available for
performance, and mighty
interesting it is.
Written while he was
still a young student, it
provides a candid glimpse
of the thing that
concerned him: how music
could be both
forward-moving in the
classical Western sense
(this is, after all, a
piece for a wholly
conventional medium) and
repetitive in the manner
of the Indian and
medieval music in which
he was interested. What
results is a singular
machine geared to an
intermittent ostinato in
the first violin. This
movement for string
quartet was first
performed by the Arditti
Quartet in May 1983, as
part of the 40th
Anniversary Gala concert
of the Society for the
Promotion of New Music at
the Barbican Hall,
London. Score
(miniature). Duration c.
5mins.
String Quartet (String Quartet) SKU: HL.14020978 Composed by Sir Peter Ma...(+)
String Quartet (String
Quartet)
SKU:
HL.14020978
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. Composed 2005. 40
pages. Chester Music
#CH66594. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14020978).
ISBN
9781844498802.
5.5x7.5x0.147
inches.
The second
of the Quartets
commissioned by the Naxos
label was completed in
January 2003. This work
swings between nervous
virtuosic energy to the
serene calm of an
extended Lento, with
exotic harmonies
reminiscent of Bartok,
and is characterised by
it's sharp and
unpredictable contrasts.
First performed by the
Maggini Quartet on 11
July 2003 at the
Pittville Pump Room,
Cheltenham, as part of
the Cheltenham
International Festival.
This is the score in a
pocket-size format. The
set of parts is
available, catalogue
number CH66594-01.
String Quartet (Score) SKU: HL.14022647 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Dav...(+)
String Quartet (Score)
SKU: HL.14022647
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Score. Composed 2006. 24
pages. Chester Music
#CH69135. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14022647).
ISBN
9781846098611.
5.5x7.5x0.101
inches.
This work
was commissioned by the
Naxos Recording Company,
and is the fifth in a
series of ten quartets.
It was first performed on
20th October 2004 at the
Wigmore Hall, London by
the Maggini Quartet.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14020979 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Mus...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14020979
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. Composed 2005. 32
pages. Chester Music
#CH67045. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14020979).
ISBN
9781846091193. UPC:
884088435172.
5.5x7.5x0.125
inches.
The third
in the series of ten
Quartets commissioned by
the Naxos recording
company. First performed
at Wigmore Hall, London
in Oct 2003 by the
Maggini Quartet. A
convenient,
miniature-sized version
of the score intended for
study. Performance parts
are available available:
CH67045-01.
String Quartet (String Quartet) SKU: HL.14020977 Composed by Sir Peter Ma...(+)
String Quartet (String
Quartet)
SKU:
HL.14020977
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. Composed 2002. 32
pages. Chester Music
#CH65648. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14020977).
ISBN
9781844498024.
5.5x7.5x0.127
inches.
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.
String Quartet.
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover].
Composed 2006. Chester
Music #CH6983901.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14008383).
8.5x11.75x0.35
inches.
The set of
parts for Maxwell
Davies's Naxos Quartet
Six for strings. 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.
Score and Parts String Quartet (Score & Parts) SKU: HL.14043722 String...(+)
Score and Parts String
Quartet (Score & Parts)
SKU: HL.14043722
String Quartet.
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Music
Sales America. Classical,
Contemporary. Softcover.
Composed 2015. 48 pages.
Chester Music #CH83798.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14043722).
Music
Sales America. 37 pages.
Chester Music #CH7104901.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14021029).
UPC: 884088492342.
8.25x11.75x0.215
inches.
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 Church
University, Canterbury,
as part of the Sounds New
Festival. Naxos Quartet
No. 8 is dedicated to Her
Majesty the Queen on her
80th birthday.
String Quartet Study Score. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-)....(+)
String Quartet Study
Score. Composed by
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
(1934-). Music Sales
America. Softcover.
Chester Music #CH71907.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14037516).
String Quartet Study Score. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-)....(+)
String Quartet Study
Score. Composed by
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
(1934-). Music Sales
America. Softcover.
Chester Music #CH72809.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14037517).