Peter Maxwell Davies

This essentially contemplative work in four movements is based on a plainsong fragment from the Lamentations of Jeremiah traditionally sung on Maundy Thursday in the ceremonies spiralling down to the sacrifice of Christ on GoodFriday.First performed in June 1982 by Richard Hughes to whom the work is dedicated.

Two works for the organ that are both composed around plainsong textures and melodies together as a unified pair of performance pieces.Reliqui Domum Meum was first performed in Orkney 1996 by Heather Rendell and wascomposed for the memorial service of organist Richard Hughes of Kirkwall Orkney.Veni Creator Spiritus was first performed at Rochester Cathedral in 2002.The overall mood of this sensitive commemorative piece first performed in April 1996 at Kirkwall East Church on the Orkney mainland by Heather Rendall is quite sombre - if anything even more simple and restrained than that of Veni Creator Spiritus. The hushed carol-like central section - sounding as if the adapted chorale were being heard like some distant memory or from afar - is of touching simplicity