Commemoration 60
composer: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
for children's chorus, chorus (SATB), military band, military trumpets and trombones and orchestra
text from Isaiah and Goliard Poets (13th century)
Premiere: June 6, 2005 London, Westminster, Central Hall (UK) · Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies · Royal Philharmonic Orchestra · London Symphony Chorus; Treble Choirs: St. Paul's Cathdral; Westminster Abbey; Westminster Cathedral; Chapel Royal St. James';St. George's Chapel Windsor; Chapel Royal Hampton Court Chapel · Royal British Legion; Kneller Hall (concert performance)
Orchestra instrumentation: 2.2.Acl.0.bcl.1.cbsn-2.2.2.0-timp.2perc(glsp, sus cym, tamb, 2s.d, 2b.d)-str(12.10.8.6.4)
military band: pic.2fl.ob.Ebcl.2cl.2asax.tsax.barsax.bsn-4hn.3tpt.2tbn.btbn.euph.tba-timp.2perc(clash cym, s.d, b.d)
military brass: 4tpt.4valve tbn
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Duration: 20' 0''
Year of composition: 2005
Edition: performance material
Language: English - Latin
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Commissioned personally by Her Majesty the Queen to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the end of World War II, Commemoration 60 is scored for large forces, and uses them in dramatic ways. A huge collage of invented hymns, fanfares and marches reach a devastating climax which then dissolves into a hushed second movement.
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