Peter Maxwell Davies: Fanfare Musis Aurora Benigna: Ensemble de Cuivres

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 inhislarger-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 fanfaresthroughouthis output which resurface in apocalyptic style towards the end of his orchestral work Roma, Amor.
Parts available: SOS05301