For Violin and Piano. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-). This edition: Sheet music. Sheet Music Edition. Downloadable. Duration 15 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q6913. Published by Schott Music - Digital

Mixed choir (SATB). organ ad libitum - intermediate - Digital Download Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-). This edition: choral score. The Royal Collection. Downloadable. Duration 2 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q7198. Published by Schott Music - Digital

Cello and piano - difficult - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q6912

Sequentia Serpentigena. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: Sheet music. Downloadable. Op. 285. Duration 17 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q6912. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q6912).

The Sonata, in six movements, is the direct outcome of Peter Maxwell Davies’ encounter with the ‘pievi’ – early medieval rural churches – of Tuscany. He writes: ‘In particular, it was inspired by the elusive and enigmatic nature of the imagery of their stone carvings. I have concentrated on just one image, that of the snake, which in Jewish and Christian tradition is a symbol of temptation and betrayal, and of sinfulness in general. However, in the pievi, older significances, which can be traced back to Estruscan times, can be discerned, and these meanings, quite contrary to the usual readings, are now beginning to be fathomed, helping us to understand for instance why the piece of San Vito in Corsignano has no stone carving apart from decorative elements, and that of small, extended snakes.’ (Peter Maxwell Davies)

Inspiriert durch Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Begegnung mit den pievi, frühmittelalterlichen ländlichen Kirchen in der Toskana, und insbesondere mit ihren schwer fassbaren, rätselhaften Steinreliefs, entstand die Cellosonate um die selbe Zeit wie seine jüngste Violinsonate, auch ein italienisch inspiriertes Werk, das eine Reise durch Rom darstellt.

Mixed choir (SATB) - intermediate to advanced - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q7062

Text from Christmas Poem by George Mackay Brown. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: choral score. The Royal Collection. Downloadable, choral score. Duration 3 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q7062. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q7062).

English.

As Master of the Queens Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has written a new carol for Her Majesty the Queen each Christmas since his appointment began in 2004. Kings and Shepherds is the fourth and like An Heavenly Song, Wonder Tidings and The Yule-tide Bell, will be published as part of the Schott Royal Collection. Written for the 2008 Christmas service and performed in the Ballroom of Buckingham Palace, Kings and Shepherds is a short traditional setting of Christmas Poem by George Mackey Brown, a poet who lived near to Maxwell Davies on the Orkney Islands. A wonderful addition to the carol repertoire and ideal for amateur choirs looking to programme new pieces.

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SKU: S9.Q19897

Reflections on the life and work of Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907). Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: study score. Music Of Our Time. Das 30minütige Orchesterwerk in drei Sätzen, das von den Bremer Philharmonikern in Auftrag gegeben und von diesen 2007 uraufgeführt wurde, gehört zu den Schlüsselwerken von Maxwell Davies der letzten Jahre. Downloadable, study score. Op. 276. Duration 30 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q19897. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q19897).

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.

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SKU: S9.Q21532

After Book V of Virgil’s 'Aeneid'. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: study score. Music Of Our Time. Based on the detailed account of the intense and injurious physical contests from Virgil’s Aeneid. Downloadable, Study score. Op. 321. Duration 14 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q21532. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q21532).

This highly complex and virtuosic ensemble work shows that even in his 80s Sir Peter Maxwell Davies shows no signs of taking it easy. Composed in Italy in 2012, The Trojan Games depicts a sequence of physical contests far more intense than any sporting event we’re familiar with today.

1.1.1.1 - 1.0.0.0 - hpd - va.vc Kammer-ensemble - advanced - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q3356

On To Many a Well. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: study score. Music Of Our Time. Downloadable, Study score. Op. 10. Duration 12 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q3356. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q3356).

Ricercar and Doubles is one of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ earliest chamber works, crystalline and contained it inhabits both the 17th and 20th centuries in Max’s inimitable style.

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.

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.

Soprano solo, mixed choir and organ (piano) - difficult - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q6301

Carol. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: choral score. The Royal Collection. Downloadable, Choral score. Op. 256, no.1. Duration 4 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q6301. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q6301).

English.

During his time as Master of the Queen's Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies wrote a new carol for Her Majesty the Queen each Christmas. Lullay, My Child, and Weep No More was the first in this series, written for Christmas 2004. All 10 carols are published in the Schott Royal Collection A setting of the traditional fifteenth century text for soprano solo, SATB choir and organ, Lullay, My Child, and Weep No More was first performed in St. James’s Palace by the choir of the Chapel Royal at the end of the 2004/2005 Christmas period.

Mixed choir (SATB) - easy - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q19043

Text from an English folk poem from Napton, Warwickshire. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: choral score. The Royal Collection. Downloadable, choral score. Volume op. 256; no. 7. Duration 3 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q19043. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q19043).

English.

As Master of the Queens 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. Fleecy Care Carol, written for Christmas 2010, is the seventh in the Schott Royal Collection series. First performed in St. James’s palace by the choir of the Chapel Royal for the 2010 Christmas period and broadcast on Classic FM, Fleecy Care Carol is a short, effective and straightforward setting of an English folk poem, perfect for amateur choirs looking for new repertoire.

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).

1.2.0.2-2.2.0.0-timp-str(7.6.5.4.3) chamber orchestra - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q19150

For chamber orchestra. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: study score. Music Of Our Time. Downloadable, Study score. Op. 293. Duration 20 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q19150. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q19150).

Peter Maxwell Davies was thinking of individual and communal vulnerability when composing this piece, especially in relation to the problem of climate change and his home in the Orkney Islands, which is under threat from rising sea levels. However, this theme is not a completely negative one: Davies claims we must all enter the last door of light but the journey is full of light and joy. The melody at the start of the work, which Davies composed in the ‘70’s and never used, could be an Island folk melody and is subject to constant transformation throughout the piece before reaching apotheosis at the end.

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SKU: S9.Q21640

Alla ricerca di Borromini. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: study score. Music Of Our Time. Downloadable, Study score. Op. 327. Duration 45 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q21640. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q21640).

Italian.

In his 80th year, Peter Maxwell Davies returns in music to Rome, where he studied with Goffredo Petrassi in the late 1950’s. Full of darkly glowing sonorities (recalling the earlier Roma, Amor of 1998) and often in a language of startling harmonic directness, the Symphony sets Leopardi’s sonnet A se stesso, Borromini’s last testament and an anonymous sonnet which attacks Borromini’s work for its ‘eccentricity’ and ‘lack of coherence’. Davies has composed a deeply moving meditation on the nature of creativity, the artist’s relationship with the past and, ultimately, mortality. Chris Austin.

Violin II - easy - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q7207

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: separate part. Downloadable, Individual part. Op. 298. Schott Music - Digital #Q7207. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q7207).

'A Birthday Card for Prince Charles' was written for the Sanday Fiddle Club, in celebration of the sixtieth birthday of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Sanday is one of the Orkney Islands, the archipelago that since 1970 Maxwell Davies has made his home. The Sanday Fiddle Club is a mixed-level group for the community. This work is therefore intended to be enjoyed by all string players! Maxwell Davies has always built and maintained close links with the community and the annual St Magnus Festival, which he founded in 1977.