Clarinet and string quartet - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q6206 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: score and parts. Downloadable, Score and parts. Op. 252. Duration 25 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q6206. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q6206). Peter Maxwell Davies spent a day at a gynaecological clinic in London at the invitation of Professor Ian Craft, who commissioned the piece in memory of his father. During his time there he met many people and shared in some of the deep emotions they experienced. Artemis Locheia is the Greek Godess of Fertility. In this one movement, 25 minute work, the joy and exuberance experienced by couples when pregnancy is confirmed is captured. There are many tempo changes and two extended cadenzas for the clarinet. The work was premiered by Dmitri Ashkenazy and the Brodsky Quartet.

Pno-vln.va.vc piano, violin, viola and cello - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q19143 For piano quartet. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: score and parts. Downloadable, score and parts. Op. 307. Duration 5 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q19143. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q19143). The two nocturnes were composed immediately after major surgery, against a deadline, and, despite the music sounding unlike anything I have written before, I decided to keep them exactly as they turned out.2010 is a Chopin year, and I made this pair of nocturnes into a little tribute, after playing through and listening to most of his output. Never before had I composed under these drugged conditions – the musical dimensions were enormously exaggerated, with each interval and each phrase being elongated out of all proportion, and the whole few minutes filling the whole of time and space.The orchestration, for piano quartet, was influenced by the very neo-classical feel of the chamber version of the concertos, and the harmonic language very much the result of pondering Chopin’s very individual take on J.S Bach.They are dedicated to James MacMillan and Amelia Freedman respectively.Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (2010).

Cello (double bass) - easy - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q564362 Four Tunes from the Scottish Island of Sanday. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Downloadable, Individual part. Schott Music - Digital #Q564362. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q564362). Start Point is a collection of four tunes written for the Sanday Fiddle Club. First performed in their entirety in 2006 at the St Magnus Festival, the names of the tunes are names of places on the Orkney Islands. Evocative and unassuming, the appealing character and flexibility of these works reflects their genesis. They are suited to a variety of purposes and could be played by both string quartet and string ensemble. Accessible by standard and style, to the extent that they are rooted in the community they form an illustration of Maxwell Davies’ engagement with his locality, where he has lived since the 1970s.

Ob-vn.va.vc oboe, violin, viola and cello - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q21269 For oboe, violin, viola and cello. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: score and parts. Downloadable, Score and parts. Op. 323. Duration 17 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q21269. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q21269). Maxwell Davies' beguiling Oboe Quartet was written for longstanding collaborators the Hebrides Ensemble and dedicated to the eminent composer and conductor Oliver Knussen on his 60th birthday. Max composed the single movement Quartet during a hot summer in Italy, deriving all of its material from an Alleluia plainsong. The resulting work is richly lyrical and rewarding for players and audience alike.

Min. 5.5.4.4.2 string orchestra - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q6249 For string orchestra. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: study score. Music Of Our Time. Downloadable, study score. Op. 254. Duration 8 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q6249. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q6249). The Fall of the Leafe is based on a piece for virginal from the Fitzwilliam collection and is characterised by a descriptive descending scale which imitates leaves falling in autumn. The piece has further resonance for Maxwell Davies who lives in Orkney where there are very few trees so his opportunities to experience this time of year are confined to visits elsewhere in the country or his imagination.

String quartet and string orchestra - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q19666 For string quartet and string orchestra. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: study score. Music Of Our Time. Downloadable, Study score. Op. 319. Duration 20 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q19666. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q19666). 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.

Violin II - easy - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q564360 Four Tunes from the Scottish Island of Sanday. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Downloadable, Individual part. Schott Music - Digital #Q564360. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q564360). Start Point is a collection of four tunes written for the Sanday Fiddle Club. First performed in their entirety in 2006 at the St Magnus Festival, the names of the tunes are names of places on the Orkney Islands. Evocative and unassuming, the appealing character and flexibility of these works reflects their genesis. They are suited to a variety of purposes and could be played by both string quartet and string ensemble. Accessible by standard and style, to the extent that they are rooted in the community they form an illustration of Maxwell Davies’ engagement with his locality, where he has lived since the 1970s.

Bass clarinet and string orchestra - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q19841 For bass clarinet and strings. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: study score. Music Of Our Time. Downloadable, Study score. Op. 281. Duration 15 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q19841. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q19841). Commissioned by the St Magnus Festival and first performed there in 2007, The Seas of Kirk Swarf, like many of the composer’s works, draws inspiration from the Orkney Isles where Maxwell Davies lives. Kirk Swarf is a stretch of sea off the Holms of Ire, two small uninhabited islands off Sanday, Orkney and as the name suggests, on shore is a ruined chapel. The composer explains that two kinds of sea meet and interact here at this point - the wilder sea from Westray to the west, and a calmer sea, resulting in huge waves suddenly rearing up, even on calm days, with extraordinary dramatic effect.

Violin I - easy - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q564359 Four Tunes from the Scottish Island of Sanday. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Downloadable, Individual part. Schott Music - Digital #Q564359. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q564359). Start Point is a collection of four tunes written for the Sanday Fiddle Club. First performed in their entirety in 2006 at the St Magnus Festival, the names of the tunes are names of places on the Orkney Islands. Evocative and unassuming, the appealing character and flexibility of these works reflects their genesis. They are suited to a variety of purposes and could be played by both string quartet and string ensemble. Accessible by standard and style, to the extent that they are rooted in the community they form an illustration of Maxwell Davies’ engagement with his locality, where he has lived since the 1970s.

2vln.va.2vc string quintet - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q42370 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: score and parts. Downloadable, Score and parts. Op. 330. Duration 23 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q42370. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q42370). Commissioned by the Nash Ensemble in 2014, String Quintet is one of Maxwell Davies’ last works. This intense chamber work is filled with his characteristic harmonies which give the melody and harmony it’s ambiguous, continually searching quality. The work is constructed through the gradual accretion of instruments, harmonic richness and ever increasing height and depth in texture.

Viola - easy - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q564361 Four Tunes from the Scottish Island of Sanday. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Downloadable, Individual part. Schott Music - Digital #Q564361. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q564361). Start Point is a collection of four tunes written for the Sanday Fiddle Club. First performed in their entirety in 2006 at the St Magnus Festival, the names of the tunes are names of places on the Orkney Islands. Evocative and unassuming, the appealing character and flexibility of these works reflects their genesis. They are suited to a variety of purposes and could be played by both string quartet and string ensemble. Accessible by standard and style, to the extent that they are rooted in the community they form an illustration of Maxwell Davies’ engagement with his locality, where he has lived since the 1970s.

Mixed choir (SATB) and organ - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q6304 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: score. Choral Music of Our Time. Downloadable, Score. Op. 263. Duration 4 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q6304. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q6304). English.Written to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, this short choral work is suitable for professional, amateur and church choruses. Premiered at the 2005 Service of Thanksgiving in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen, the use of biblical texts (Isaiah) give this piece a sense of ceremony.

Mixed choir (SATB) - advanced - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q3507 Our Father, which are in heaven. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: choral score. Downloadable, Choral score. Op. 21. Schott Music - Digital #Q3507. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q3507). English.

2.2.2.2-2.Dtpt.1.1.btbn.1-handbells-str orchestra - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q3361 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: study score. Music Of Our Time. Downloadable, Study score. Op. 19. Schott Music - Digital #Q3361. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q3361).