This work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to celebrate its 40th birthday and was written for Isaac Stern. The first performance took place in June 1986 at St. Magnus' Cathedral Kirkwall as part of the tenth…

First Grace Of Light was composed for Nicholas Daniel to perform at a concert in memory of janet craxton for BBC Radio 3 on 7th November 1991.

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 inOctobe…

Study Score - Hawkes Pocket Score 1312. Davies Pm

Chamber opera in nine scenes-Study Score - Hawkes Pocket Score 1141. Davies Pm.

Peter 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 p…

The solo group consists of a sextet of the woodwind instruments which are normally doubled with more regular members of the orchestra: these six strangers now brought to the fore are piccolo alto flute cor anglais clarinet in…

Music-theatre works-The poems which form the basis of this work were inspired by a miniature mechanical organ playing eight tunes once the property of George III. A scrap of paper sold with it explains that 'This Organ was George…

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…

This work was commissioned by Alistair Grant to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the second Jacobite rising (1745-6). It was first performed on 15th October 1997 at the City Halls Glasgow conducted by Peter Maxwell Davies. …