Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016)

The Golden Rule (2005)

for choir and orchestra

  • General information
    • Composition date: 2005
    • Duration: 15 mn
    • Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
    • Opus: 269a
    • Commission: les amis de St. George's Chapel Windsor Castle et le Windsor Festival
    • Libretto (details, author):

      Poème de Andrew Motion.

Detailed formation
  • mixed choir [SATB] , 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, strings

Premiere information

  • Date: 27 September 2005
    Location:

    Royaume-Uni, Windsor, St George's Chapel


    Performers:

    London Chamber Orchestra, Choir of St. George's Chapel, Timothy Byram-Wigfield, direction.

Table of contents

1. Prelude - orchestra
2. The Golden Rule - choir and orchestra
3. Postlude - orchestra