Peter Maxwell Davies - Selected Compositions

Selected Compositions

• Fantasias on an In nomine of John Taverner (1962; For a large orchestra dividing into several chambers ensembles to be performed)
• Eight Songs for a Mad King (1968; for singer/narrator/actor and chamber ensemble)
• Missa super l'homme armé (1968, rev. 1971; for male or female speaker or singer and ensemble)
• Ave Maris Stella (1975; chamber ensemble)
• The Door of the Sun for Viola Solo, J.132 (1975)
• Symphony No. 1 (1973–76; orchestra)
• The Martyrdom of St Magnus (1977; chamber opera)
• The Lighthouse (1979; chamber opera)
• Black Pentecost (1979; quasi-symphony: mezzo-soprano, baritone, & orchestra)
• Cinderella (1980; children's opera)
• Symphony No. 2 (1980)
• Image, Reflection, Shadow (1982; ensemble)
• Symphony No. 3 (1984)
• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1985; dedicated to Isaac Stern who gave the first performance on 21 June 1986 at the St. Magnus Festival in the Orkney Islands)
• Symphony No. 4 (1989)
• Caroline Mathilde (1991; ballet)
• Strathclyde Concerto No. 5 for violin, viola, and string orchestra, J.245 (1991)
• A Spell for Green Corn: The MacDonald Dances (1993; violin, orchestra)
• Symphony No. 5 (1994)
• The Doctor of Myddfai (1996; opera)
• Symphony No. 6 (1996)
• Job (1997; singers, orchestra)
• Mr Emmet Takes a Walk (2000; chamber opera)
• Symphony No. 7 (2000)
• Symphony No. 8 (Antarctic Symphony) (2001)
• Naxos Quartets (2001–2007; string quartet)
• Midhouse Air for Violin and Viola
• Homerton (2010; for the choir of Homerton College, Cambridge)
• Kommilitonen! (2011; opera)
• Symphony No. 9 (2012)