for piano quartet. Par DAVIES PETER MAXWELL. 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)/ Répertoire / Piano, Violon, Alto et Violoncelle

Replaces H 2552-Dvorák’s Piano Quartet in D major though composed at the height of his artistic maturity is to date unjustly overshadowed by his more popular works.It was written within the space of 18 days in the summer of 1875 and was later revised probably in preparation for its publication.This revision which was also taken into account for the first edition issued by the publisher Schlesinger Berlin in 1880 serves as the primary source for this new Urtext edition. The premiere took place in Prague in 1880.- New detailed Foreword (Eng/Cz/Ger) by Dvorák scholar David R. Beveridge- Critical Commentary (Eng)by the editor Robin Tait