Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016)

House of Winter (1986)

song cycle for choir or vocal sextet

  • General information
    • Composition date: 1986
    • Duration: 10 mn
    • Publisher: Chester Music
    • Opus: 125
    • Libretto (details, author):

      Texte : George Mackay Brown

Detailed formation
  • mixed choir

Premiere information

  • Date: 16 November 1986
    Location:

    Royaume-Uni, Orcades, Kirkwall


    Performers:

    The King's Singers

Table of contents

1. We are folded all
2. Listen, somehwere outstide, a footfall
3. Such sudden storm and drifts
4. At last, the house of winter