Peter Maxwell Davies: Fanfare Musis Aurora Benigna: Brass Ensemble: Score

Fanfare; Portsmouth is a work for Brass Ensemble composed by Peter Maxwell Davies. Commissioned by the New Theatre Royal Portsmouth to celebrate its re-opening it was first performed there on 11thMarch 2016. This is the full Score and a full performance lasts around 5 minutes.

Work for 2 Trumpets 2 Horns and 2 Trombones premiered in the Museum of Scotland in 1998 by members of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Maxwell Davies has relished incorporating brilliant tuckets and alarms for brass in his larger-scale scores too much to write a perfunctory fanfare; a seminal influence was the statue of St. Michael on the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome where he studied in the late 1950s generator of high trumpet fanfares throughout his output which resurface in apocalyptic style towards the end of his orchestral work Roma Amor. Score available: CH61567