Two Nocturnes Piano Quartet Score And Parts Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello
for piano quartet
by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Piano Quartet - Sheet Music

Piano, violin, viola and cello (Piano Quartet)

SKU: HL.49018677

For piano quartet. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Piano Ensemble. Score and parts. Composed 2010. Op. 307. 20 pages. Duration 5'. Schott Music #ED13420. Published by Schott Music (HL.49018677).

ISBN 9790220132674. UPC: 884088863128. 9.0x12.0x0.078 inches.

The two nocturnes were composed immediately after major surgery, against a deadline, and, despite the music sounding unlike anything I have written before, I decided to keep them exactly as they turned out.2010 is a Chopin year, and I made this pair of nocturnes into a little tribute, after playing through and listening to most of his output. Never before had I composed under these drugged conditions - the musical dimensions were enormously exaggerated, with each interval and each phrase being elongated out of all proportion, and the whole few minutes filling the whole of time and space.The orchestration, for piano quartet, was influenced by the very neo-classical feel of the chamber version of the concertos, and the harmonic language very much the result of pondering Chopin's very individual take on J.S Bach.They are dedicated to James MacMillan and Amelia Freedman respectively.Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (2010).