Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is universally acknowledged as one of the foremost composers of our time and as he reaches his 75th birthday in 2009 he remains prolific.
The sonata for violin and piano was written for the virtuoso violinist, Ilya Gringolts and first performed at the St Magnus Festival in Orkney in 2008. . The work is principally concerned with Italian architecture and the music takes both performers and audience across an imaginary walkway over Rome as proposed by the architect Giuseppe Rebecchini. . Starting at the 17th Century Chiesa Nuova the exceptional journey passes Renaissance churches, exhibition spaces, the river Tiber, glass fa�.ades, sculptures and even a prison where a Lazio folk tune can be heard echoing from behind the walls. . The journey ends 15 minutes later at Gianicolo, an area where one can take in breathtaking views over the whole city.

"Bella ciao" ("Goodbye beautiful") is an Italian protest folk song that originated in the hardships of the mondina women, the paddy field workers in the late 19th century who sang it to protest against harsh working conditions in the paddy fields of North Italy. The song was modified and adopted as an anthem of the anti-fascist resistance by the Italian partisans between 1943 and 1945 during the Italian Resistance, the resistance of Italian partisans against the Nazi German forces occupying Italy, and, during the Italian Civil War, the Italian partisan struggle against the fascist Italian Social Republic and its Nazi German allies. Versions of "Bella ciao" are sung worldwide as an anti-fascist hymn of freedom and resistance.

This version was written for Violin and Piano.

1. Pomp and Circumstance Edward Elgar

2. Andante (Surprise Symphony) Franz Joseph Haydn

3. Arioso Daniel Gottlob Turk

4. Lullaby Johannes Brahms

5. Melody Robert Schumann

6. Sarabande George Frideric Handel

7. Silent Night Franz Xaver Gruber

8. A Little Piece Robert Schumann

9. Carnival Of Venice Julius Benedict

10. La Donna E Mobile Giuseppe Verdi

11. Largo (The New World) Antonin Dvorak

12. Old French Song Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

13. Waltz (Sleeping Beauty) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

14. We Wish You A Merry Christmas EnglishFolk Song

15. Air Henry Purcell

16. Ode To Joy LudwigVan Beethoven

17. Italian Polka SergeiRachmaninoff

18. Minuet (In F Major) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

19. Solveig`s Song EdvardGrieg

20. Sonatina (In C Major) Muzio Clementi

21. Waltz DmitriKabalevsky

22. Alouette FrenchFolk Song

23. Gaudeamus Igitur Johannes Brahms

24. Green Sleeves English Folk Song

25. Hongroise Adolphe-Charles Adam

26. Minuet (In F Major) Franz Joseph Haydn

27. Serenade (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

28. Soldier\'s March Robert Schumann

29. Arietta MuzioClementi

30. Emperor Waltz JohannStrauss Jr.

31. Grand March (Aida) Giuseppe Verdi

32. Happy Birthday To You Patty and Mildred J. Hill

33. Minuet (In D Minor) Johann Sebastian Bach

34. Santa Lucia Italian Folk Song

35. The Emperor\'s Hymn Franz Joseph Haydn

36. La Paloma Sebastian Yradier

37. Dance Of The Hours Amilcare Ponchielli

38. Fur Elise Ludwig Van Beethoven

39. Humoresque Antonin Dvorak

40. Minuet (In G Major) Johann Sebastian Bach

41. Toreador Song Georges Bizet

42. Turkish March Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

43. Ave Maria FranzSchubert

44. Barcarolle Jacques Offenbach

45. In The Hall Of The Mountain King Edvard Grieg

46. Melody In FAnton Rubinstein

47. None But The Lonely Heart Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

48. Polovtsian Dance Alexander Borodin

49. Spanish Romance

50. Liebestraum (Dream Of Love) Franz Liszt

51. Arioso George Frideric Handel

52. O Mio Babbino Caro Giacomo Puccini

53. O Sole Mio Eduardo Di Capua

54. To A Wild Rose EdwardMacDowell

55. Sobre Las Olas (Over The Waves) JuventinoRosas

56. Waltz (Op. 39 No. 15) Johannes Brahms

57. Blue Danube Waltz Johann Strauss Jr.

58. Bridal Chorus (Wedding March) Richard Wagner

59. Gavotte Jean-Baptiste Lully

60. Die Forelle FranzSchubert

61. Pavane Gabriel Faure

62. The Skaters Waltz Emile Waldteufel

63. Wedding March FelixBartholdy Mendelssohn

64. Adagio (In G Minor) Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

65. Can Can Jacques Offenbach

66. Habanera GeorgesBizet

67. Passacaglia Handel-Halvorsen

68. Radetzky March JohannStrauss Sr.

69. Serenade FranzSchubert

70. Theme From Symphony No.40 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Silent Night (Franz Xaver Gruber)

Waltz (Sleeping Beauty)

Air (Henry Purcell)

Alouette (French Folk Song)

Santa Lucia (Italian Folk Song)

In The Hall Of The Mountain King (Edvard Grieg)

Polovtsian Dance (Alexander Borodin)

Minuet (In G Major) (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Ode To Joy Ludwig Van Beethoven

Habanera( Georges Bizet)