Matériel : Partition
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
SKU: HL.14008428
8.25x11.75x0.06 inches.
These are all arrangements of sixteenth-century Scottish church music, beginning with Psalm 124 by David Peebles, which gains an athletic counterpoint of Davies's own. Then comes John Fethy's O God Abufe played straight, and finally an anonymous motet, All Sons of Adam, again infiltrated by a modern voice.
SKU: HL.14008416
9.0x12.0x0.132 inches.
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 Good Friday. First performed in June 1982 by Richard Hughes, to whom the work is dedicated.
SKU: HL.14042820
6.75x9.75x0.047 inches.
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.
SKU: HL.49030540
ISBN 9790220123986. UPC: 884088109431. 8.5x11.75x0.088 inches. English.
During his time as Master of the Queen's Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies wrote a new carol for Her Majesty the Queen each Christmas. Lullay, My Child, and Weep No More was the first in this series, written for Christmas 2004. All 10 carols are published in the Schott Royal CollectionA setting of the traditional fifteenth century text for soprano solo, SATB choir and organ, Lullay, My Child, and Weep No More was first performed in St. James's Palace by the choir of the Chapel Royal at the end of the 2004/2005 Christmas period.
SKU: HL.14043170
12.0x8.25x0.43 inches.
On 23 June 2013 Peter Maxwell Davies 's Capstone , for organ, received its world premiere performance at the City of London Festival. Commissioned by St Paul's Cathedral, Capstone was performed at the Cathedral by its organist, Simon Johnson.
SKU: HL.49019902
ISBN 9790220134098. 8.25x12.0x0.059 inches. English.
As Master of the Queen's Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has written a new carol for Her Majesty the Queen each Christmas since his appointment to the role in 2004. A Winter Lamb, a setting of George Mackay Brown's poem Kings and Shepherds, was written for Christmas 2012 and is the ninth in his series of Royal Carols. A Winter Lamb was first performed in St. James's Palace by the choir of the Chapel Royal.
SKU: HL.49018273
ISBN 9790220131721. 8.25x11.75x0.052 inches. Latin.
During his time as Master of the Queen's Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies wrote a new carol for Her Majesty the Queen each Christmas. Ave, Plena Gracia , written for Christmas 2009, was the fifth in this series after An Heavenly Song, Wonder Tidings, The Yule-tide Bell and Kings and Shepherds all of which are published in the Schott Royal Collection.First performed in St. James's Palace by the choir of the Chapel Royal on the Epiphany at the end of the 2009/2010 Christmas period, Ave, Plena Gracia is a short and traditional Latin setting that would be perfect for amateur choirs looking for new repertoire.
SKU: HL.14021012
ISBN 9780711989030. UPC: 884088440305. 8.25x11.75x0.18 inches.
Commissione d by the International Organ Festival Nurnberg Musica Sacra to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. If this glorious, full-blooded, passionate oratorio doesn't pierce, wound and ravish even the casual listener, nothing will. Roderic Dunnett.
SKU: HL.49045445
ISBN 9790220137266. UPC: 841886029057. 8.25x11.75x0.063 inches. English - Latin.
Commissioned by the United Kingdom's Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and first performed at a service commemorating the centenary of the Battle of Jutland.
SKU: HL.49002543
ISBN 9790220105319. UPC: 884088026332. 12.0x8.75x0.436 inches.
SKU: HL.49016988
ISBN 9790220124075. UPC: 884088449674. 8.5x11.75x0.049 inches. English.
Written to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, this short choral work is suitable for professional, amateur and church choruses. Premiered at the 2005 Service of Thanksgiving in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen, the use of biblical texts (Isaiah) give this piece a sense of ceremony.
SKU: HL.49016999
ISBN 9790220130588. 8.25x11.75x0.055 inches. English.
Appointed Master of the Queen's Music in 2004, Max, as he is fondly known, has now written four Christmas Carols for Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. At just under four minutes in length this traditional-style carol uses the words of long standing friend George Mackay Brown's poem 'Hamnavoe Women and the Warbeth Bell'. It’s not the first time Max has chosen to use texts by the poet who, like Max, lived on the Orkney Islands.
SKU: HL.14020971
ISBN 9780711928756. 6.75x9.75x0.039 inches.
This work was commissioned for the choir of St. Paul's Old Church, Edinburgh, who gave the first performance on the 11th of June 1989 at St. Giles' Church, Edinburgh, conducted by Leslie Shankland. This is a setting in Scots of the passage in the Apocalypse where St. John hears a voice from the throne, that voice appearing here as soprano-alto duets from a distance, building, as Davies has said, ' fine bridge' from the time of the Edinburgh church to the present. Both vocal groups sing in translucent modal harmony with organ support.
