Peter Maxwell Davies: March On The Pole Star: Brass Ensemble: Instrumental Work

Military March No.2 was composed by Peter Maxwell Davies for the Royal Society of Musicians. This item includes the full score and individual parts for this wonderful work arranged for StringQuartet. Lasting around two minutes this work was first performed on the 3rd of March 2015 by the Sacconi Quartet at the Wigmore Hall in London as part of the 20th Annual Jacqueline Du Pré CharityConcert.

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.

Lyric opera in two acts. Libretto by David Pountney.Commissioned?jointly by the Royal Academy of Music London UK and The Juilliard School New York USA.UK premiere: 18th March 2011 - Royal Academy of MusicOpera and Sinfonia at the Royal Academy of Music London conducted by Jane Glover.US premiere: 16th November 2011 - Students of The Julliard School at Peter Jay Sharp Theatre New York conducted by AnneManson.Overview.The piece consists of three interlocking stories of students involved in political action in three different situations.?Die Weiße Rose? was the name taken by a group of students atthe University of Munich led by Sophie and Hans Scholl. They produced leaflets protesting against the National Socialist government of Germany in 1942-3 until they were arrested and guillotined.?Soar to Heaven? follows twocharacters Wu and Zhou involved on opposite sides of the Cultural Revolution in China.?The Oxford Revolution? tells the story of James Meredith who fought a lonely battle against segregation and racial prejudice to becomethe first black student to enrol at ?Ole Miss? the University of Mississippi in the USA.Librettist's Note.There are inevitably and properly some differences between the original libretto and whatMax ultimately set to music. Most of these are insignificant but all the Latin texts in the opera were added by Max and texts for the alternating black / white choruses (Scene 19) and final chorus (Scene 28) were written by him.

This work was commissioned by the Naxos Recording Company and is the eighth in a series of ten quartets. It was first performed on 10th March 2006 by the Maggini Quartet at St. Gregory’s Centre Canterbury Christ ChurchUniversity Canterbury as part of the Sounds New Festival.Naxos Quartet No. 8 is dedicated to Her Majesty the Queen on her 80th birthday.

Eine dramatische Sonate-Qui est Mr Emmet? Un homme d'affaire avec serviette de cuir et parapluie désirant conclure un contrat commercial un agent double extorquant un marché louche à une puissance étrangère ou bien encore un monsieur Tout-le-Monde tragi-comique passant au crible les pauvres restes de sa vie afin de préparer sa mort ? Un opéra d'une heure pour trois chanteurs et petit ensemble instrumental. Le livret est de David Pountney. La première a eu lieu en l'an 2000. Piano-chant anglais-allemand.

A ballet in two acts which premiered on the stage of the Royal Danish Theatre Copenhagen on 14th March 1991. Based on the true story of the sister of George III Caroline Mathilde (1751-1775) who at the age of 15 was sent toDenmark to marry the 17-year-old eccentric and schizophrenic Danish King Christian VII. The ballet portrays her unhappy marriage the King's growing madness and her fatal love-affair with Struensee the King's influentialphysician which leads to their arrest his execution and her exile at the age of 20 separated from her two young children.Written for full symphony orchestra and female chorus. Duration c. 2hrs 25mins.