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Davies's feeling for the potency and bravura of the clarinet goes back to works of the 1960s; his concerto for the instrument is predictably a big, ranging piece, in two linked movements. The first, fast with a brief slow introduction, has the soloist in

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A short piece for small orchestra, written in 1989 when the composer heard of Michael Vyner's death. Premiered in October 1989 at Glyndebourne Sussex, by the London Sinfonietta and conducted by the composer just six days after Vyman's death.



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A dreamlike and evocative work from Peter Maxwell Davies for flute and orchestra. The piece captures the wonder and sanctuary of the composer's home, surrounded by seabirds and seals that fire the imagination in childlike ways, evoking images of mermaids

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Commissioned by the International Organ Festival Nürnberg 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.

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Chapters: Derek Parfit, Harrison Birtwistle, Alistair Cooke, Peter Maxwell Davies, Colin Blakemore, William Penney, Baron Penney, Brett Whiteley, Alwyn Williams, Erik Christopher Zeeman, Harold Evans, Alastair Hetherington, Peter Atkins, Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger, David Lodge, Gwyneth Lewis, Jan Morris, Rosalyn Higgins, Baroness Higgins, Peter Phillips, Tom Hayhoe, Randolph Quirk, Howard Davies, John Dupré, Anthony Green, Hugo Young, Shane Jones, Roy Yorke Calne, Norman Crowther Hunt, Baron Crowther-Hunt, Lawrence Goldman, Graeme Koehne, Piers Mackesy, Tony Hey, Pamela Gillies, Denis Weaire, Nicola Lefanu, John Dunn, Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby, Michael L'estrange, Terry Farrell, Ronald Hilton, Stuart Devlin, Patrick Bateson, Mark Damazer, Bridget Kendall, Nicholas J. Cull, George Malcolm Brown, David Glyndwr Tudor Williams, David Wallace, Keith Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven, Claus Offe, Randolph Stow, Keith Milow, Geoff Mulgan, Ronald Bottrall, Peter Nicholls, Anthony Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill, Marcus Cunliffe, Koen Lenaerts, Hugh Brogan, Barry Trimmer, Graeme Catto, Sara Nathan, Esmond Wright, Tim Beaglehole, Adrian Wooldridge, Rudolf G. Wagner, Deryck Maughan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 250. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alfred Alistair Cooke KBE (20 November 1908 - 30 March 2004) was a British/American journalist, television personality and broadcaster. Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and Alistair Cooke's America, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theater from 1971 to 1992. After holding the job for 22 years, and having worked in television for 42 years, Cooke retired in 1992, although he continued to present Letter from America until shortly before his death. He was the father of...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=179801 ... Read more

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This Christmas cantata is an uncanny recapture by Maxwell Davies of a relatively simple modal style: luminous, sometimes plaintive, sometimes rapturous. A linked series of George Mackay Brown settings designed to give pleasure (if sometimes strenuous pleasure) to a non-professional choir. A spiritual mystery is glimpsed in an Orcadian setting.
Commissioned by the London Symphony Chorus to commemorate its 30th anniversary, with additional funds from the Arts Council of Great Britain.The first performance was given in October 1995 by the London Symphony Chorus and the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Richard Hickox.
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