Peter Maxwell Davies: Six Sanday Tunes (Full Score): String Ensemble: Score

Four Tunes from the Scottish Island of Sanday-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.

for bass clarinet and strings. Par DAVIES PETER MAXWELL. 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. / Date parution : 2011-11-20/ Répertoire / Clarinette Basse et Orchestre à Cordes

Dans l'esprit de désormais célèbre Farewell du compositeur to Stromness, cette suite de pièces courtes tire son inspiration de la northern Orcades île de Sanday sur lequel il vit. Dans trois magnifiques miniatures pour piano, il capture le caractère particulier de la Knowes o ' achillée millefeuille, eaux de Woo et Kettletoft Pier. / Piano