Peter Maxwell Davies

Job (Vocal Score)-A substantial work for four soli SATB chorus and orchestra using text from the translation of Stephen Mitchell's The Book Of Job. Like Vaughan Williams in his Job: A Masque for Dancing Davies was inspired inpart by William Blake's 21 engravings for the Book of Job. His oratorio however is less dependent on find parallels for Blake's visual details given the direct poetry in David Lemon's adaptation of the Stephen Mitchelltranslation from the biblical original it is hardly surprising that the spotlight should be so much on Job's suffering litany. The baritone has the lion's share of the setting though the other soloists occasionally reinforce hisplea and chorale-like episodes universalize his predicament. Davies frames with work with two seminal plainsong-like passages; there is also plenty of dramatic contrast both within Job's monologues and in the vivid orchestralwriting for the smarmy Comforters the initially shrill God who finally appears out of a dazzling orchestral whirlwind and the animal life he uses to illustrate the wonders of creation to a humbled Job.Commissioned by theUniversity of British Colombia it was first performed in May 1997 by Valdine Anderson (soprano) Linda Maguire (mezzo soprano) Paul Moore (tenor) and Kevin McMillan (baritone) with the Vancouver Bach Choir and the CBC VancouverOrchestra conducted by the composer.Vocal score with piano reduction of the orchestral score. Duration c. 70mins.

For unaccompanied SATB chorus to words by George Mackay Brown.Composer Note:In setting George Mackay Brown’s acrostic lines for the birth of Lucy Randall (the first child borne in Rackwick Hoy for 32 years) I set myself the uncharacteristic problem of banishing all ‘black’ notes – that is the work used only the ‘white’ notes on the piano – a symbolic ‘conceit’ I had not tried before. The music has the gentle rocking rhythm suitable for its purpose and I enjoyed writing the tune so much I repeated all of the text in order to hear it twice. -Peter Maxwell Davies

Corpus Christi With Cat And Mouse is a setting of fragments selected from the Richard Hill Commonplace Book an early 16th century manuscript in the library of Balliol College Oxford. Commissioned by the Master andFellows of Balliol College to commemorate the centenary of the death of Benjamin Jowett Master of Balliol 1870-1893 this work was first performed by the Chapel Choir of Balliol College conducted by Mark Dawes in November1993.For unaccompanied SATB choir. This vocal score includes a piano accompaniment for rehearsal purposes.

Advent Calendar by the Master of the Queen's Music Peter Maxwell Davies sets the text of the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams .  The work for SATB and Organ was commissioned by The Choirbook Trust for inclusion in the Choirbook for the Queen published to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen in 2012.

This motet for unaccompanied SATB choir was commissioned for the 500th anniversary of King's College Cambridge. This is a setting in Greek of an Orthodox prayer to Christ as Son and Word God and Man risen and saving. The prayeris led by a solo tenor and sung mostly by the men with the upper voices entering only for an appeal to Wisdom (sofia) and the final alleluia.It was first performed in 1991 in King's College Chapel by the choir of King's Collegeconducted by Stephen Cleobury.

Continuant la richesse de la musique chorale de Maxwell Davies grâce à son rôle de maître de musique de la Reine, ' An céleste Song ' est le deuxième carol délicieux à la Royal Collection' et est adapté pour les chorales dans tous les domaines. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Orgue

A continuous setting of six poems from George Mackay Brown's Fishermen with Plough which concern the traditional ways of life and death in Radwick the village on hoy Orkney where the composer lived for 28 years. The choir issupported throughout the piece by pointing entries and doubling the choral lines within the piano part. The piano part is not just an accompaniment it has it's own discourse and is correspondingly challenging. For SATB Choirwith Piano accompaniment.

First performed on 17 October 2000 at the Pieve dell'Assunta Cavalese Trentino Italy by the Mayfield Singers this is an Italian translation of the text A Hoy Calendar from the poem sequence Fishermen withPloughs. Written for SATBB chorus with optional Piano or Organ accompaniment.

Prière de Thanksgiving a été écrit pour marquer le 400e anniversaire de la conspiration des poudres en novembre 1605, qui a eu lieu durant les mois où Londres éprouvait un prolongation du délai de terreur après le 7/7 2005 attentats à la bombe. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Orgue