Fanfare Musis Aurora Benigna

By Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

Item Number: HL.14020969

ISBN 9781844491346. 5.5x7.5 inches.

Work for 2 Trumpets, 2 Horns and 2 Trombones premiered in the Museum of Scotland in 1998 by members of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
Maxwell Davies has relished incorporating brilliant tuckets and alarms for brass in hislarger-scale scores too much to write a perfunctory fanfare; a seminal influence was the statue of St. Michael on the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, where he studied in the late 1950s, generator of high trumpet fanfares throughouthis output which resurface in apocalyptic style towards the end of his orchestral work Roma, Amor.
Parts available: SOS05301.

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