Baritone voice and piano - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q6687 For baritone and piano. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: score. Downloadable, score. Op. 284. Duration 15 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q6687. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q6687). Italian.Opening simply with a solo voice, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Italian settings of eight poems by Renaissance artist Michelangelo for baritone and piano take both the performers and audience on a striking journey through Michelangelo’s tortured and knotty Tuscan poetry. The piano is introduced in the second of the eight settings punctuating the vocal part with a variety of different textures from bell-like figuration to turbulent virtuosity.

Mixed choir with piano or organ ad libitum - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q19131 For SATB choir with optional piano or organ. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: choral score. The Royal Collection. Downloadable, Choral score. Duration 3 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q19131. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q19131). English.As Master of the Queen’s Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has written a new carol for Her Majesty the Queen each Christmas since his appointment to the role in 2004. A Winter Lamb, a setting of George Mackay Brown's poem Kings and Shepherds, was written for Christmas 2012 and is the ninth in his series of Royal Carols. A Winter Lamb was first performed in St. James’s Palace by the choir of the Chapel Royal.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mixed choir (SATB) - intermediate - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q40462 The holy marter - Carol on a mediaeval text. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: choral score. Downloadable, Choral score. Schott Music - Digital #Q40462. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q40462). English.

Mixed choir (SATB) - intermediate - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q19038 For SATB choir. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: choral score. Choral Music of Our Time. Downloadable, Choral score. Op. 256. Duration 4 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q19038. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q19038). English • Latin.

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.

Piano - Interactive Download SKU: HX.89087 By Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: Interactive Download. Classical. 5 pages. Published by Hal Leonard Europe (HX.89087).