If that is the case, thank you for a beautiful and thoughtful performance. I have just bought the music for this today and have started to learn it. It's a moving and evocative piece and you did it justice.
Simple but lovely piece Sir, thank you if you played this! A simple meal is always the most difficult to get right but tastes amazing - this is that for the ears!!!!!!
Music has the power to bring about emotion, and I think perhaps sometimes we need that as a release. I get that from some songs, with a feeling which is a mix of loving remembrance and loss. I hope you're doing ok.
I'm just about on the right side of 74 and reviving my urge to play again after over 60 years. I learned to play the piano accordion at 9 but had to give up at 14 when my father became ill and we had to sell the accordion (to eat!). I bought a second-hand electronic keyboard after my husband died just over 3 years ago but only just feeling the need to play. This is will be my go to piece. It's just glorious. I live on a Scottish island and look our of my window down the loch to Iona. What more could I need?
I wish you well. There is so much joy to be had from music. I play rather poorly but my son is a very accomplished musician currently studying at the RNCM and I have had even more joy following his progress as a musician. Although I am English, I have always loved Scotland and the Highlands in particular. My other son is studying at St Andrews and I am looking forward to the end of lockdown so my wife and I can visit Scotland again.
You already have it all Music is in the deepest part of your heart Please don't let pain cause you to leave it behind as I did In fact, your post has inspired me to go back Will you join me?
@@joshuarosen6242 I have had several attempts to play the piano, even got to Grade 4 but gave up when my teacher moved. Keep practicing she said but........now its all forgotten. Have the urge to try again but at 94 I may have left it a bit late. However......???
Simon, Stromness was my mother's favourite place on earth. When one of her friends who is a musician suggested we use this piece to remember her, I listened to many versions and chose yours as my favourite. We used this video at her Zoom funeral in December 2020, and it brings a tear - and sweet memories of visiting Orkney with her - again many months later. Thank you so much.
This so beautiful in it's simplicity and awakens a longing in me to go back to Scotland which is so much part of my long gone family and past. How is it that 6 people cannot 'like 'it? Bizarre....
I've had the sheet music to this piece sitting in my hard drive for 3 years without ever realizing how beautiful a piece it is. After listening to this I'm looking forward to learning how to play it
I've had to find Farewell to Stromness on U-tube as no one mentioned this piece in all the items about Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. it is so very simple but I have loved it for years. Thank you for such beauty. A Scot
Of all the performances of this piece on CZcams, this is the best. Captures the pain, the anger and the yearning of the prospect of losing such a special place as well as the specialness of the place itself.
@@katydid2k yes that's possible too, though they were referring to how PMD created this piece as a protest song against uranium mining in Orkney. Pretty much the soundtrack to Andrew Yang's "Get to Higher Ground" and Brad Pitt's "Movement is Life - Movimiento es Vida" in World War Z for me (if World War Z is set in a Jane Austenian universe facing climate crisis.) Farewell to Florida. Farewell to Antarctica. Farewell, Tropical Islands!
Beautiful music beautifully paced helping us through these painful days. I’ve searched everywhere to find this music. This is the most delicately realised I have found.
I first heard this beautiful piece played just after HM Queen Elizabeth II died last year, 8th September 2022. We were all still in shock, and it was played with such sensitivity. It's importance wasn't lost as Peter Maxwell Davies was Master of the Queen's Music.
Just heard this closing PM on Radio 4 , 5.55pm 10th March 2020. They played it as an antidote to all the bad news going on at present, Coronavirus etc. Like all good music you hear for the first time, I heard it in the background and I had to stop and was transfixed. Absolutely beautiful. It must be on the soundtrack of a film somewhere.
Glyn, I heard this piece for the first time at the end of PM today too. It started just as I got home but I had to sit in the car and listen to it right through. What a lovely piece of music - think I will ask to have it played at my funeral!!
Well just over 1 year since my post and what a year. Working from home, great, spending time with wife and home schooling grandkids, great, walking around the local moors, great, silliest quiz every week with my friends and realising we're still kids at heart, great. A year of late night CZcams surfing great Lost my job in Dec, not so great, not seem family, not so great. 1st Jab on Wednesday (24th March). Mercifully we've all stayed Covid free (I think). Whose going to believe us in 20 years time? Hope your all safe.
I just hear this on desert island discs today. Thanks to the lady who selected it and thanks to the BBC. How could anyone threaten such a beautiful thing.
A través de un programa de tv, descubrí al compositor Maxwell Davies y, concretamente, esta pieza. Me ha parecido muy hermosa, además, conociendo el lugar, el paisaje en la que se inspira tiene aun más sentido. Contiene la majestuosidad, la belleza del Mar del Norte y sus playas salvajes. Maravillosa .
Never mind beds and electrics - this has to be one of the most beautiful pieces of music composed over the last 50 years or so - and played here with such delicacy! Thanks for posting this
TheMinisigi It IS haunting. And the rocking of the waves is so evoked in the opening and closing sections. But you have to go there - Stromness and the Orkneys are wonderfully strange and contradictory. One day clear pellucid waters - the next seaweed being hurled against your windows from the harbour. But a lovely lullaby and farewell for George Mackay Brown.
autolycuscus I'm sorry - I didn't really mean to run down your own associations. So many pieces of music we love with particular associations of times or places - and those things are valuable even if they don't mean a lot to anybody else! One day I must indeed go to Orkney.
I never got as far as Stromness but this piece always reminds me of leaving St Andrews never to return. I suppose that's the power of really great music, it could be saying farewell to anywhere, or anyone, really.
The music is a part with the land, the sea, the sky. It is quintessentially Scots, Celtic. My opinion is it strikes so close to the heart because it mimics so closely the language and the rhythm of the people - for me it's very female and maternal... Anyhoo I can't hear it without wanting to run far and fast to Scotland Enjoy your listen x
Hoy estoy escuchando esta pieza gracias al libro "Un año para maravillarse" de Clemency Burton-Hill, recomendadísimo. A mí me está descubriendo obras que de otra manera no habría conocido nunca. Preciosa pieza, sin palabras.
Yo también estoy escuchando esta pieza gracias al mismo libro, que me parece una maravilla, si te gusta la música. La pieza también me parece maravillosa.
Peter used to regularly frequent the hotel I worked summers in whilst I was studying. He didnt like being called 'Sir Peter' instead we all called him Max. Was a really humble and pleasant guy, I remember a funny story one of the other staff told me: At a bit of a fancy event, a few guests who were quite obnoxious and clearly fancied themselves were showing off their expensive watches in front of everyone. Max turned around and told them his watch did everything theirs did (told the time) but only cost him £12. Apparently it shut them right up 🤣.
Music is so much poorer in 2016. Late last year we lost Pierre Boulez, this year we have lost David Bowie, Keith Emerson, George Martin and now Max. All ground breaking innovative musicians in their own way. Thankfully their influence is forever there
Beautiful piece. Beautifully played. I wish I was sitting on the harbour wall at Stromness eating a deep-fried Whooper Swan Supper watching the sun set. What a guy Peter was! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Maxwell_Davies#Personal_life
I'm pretty sure this is my recording, made for Classic FM's "Smooth Classics for Rough Days" album. Thank you all for the kindly comments!
Well, thank you! Beautifully BEAUTIFULLY played.
If that is the case, thank you for a beautiful and thoughtful performance. I have just bought the music for this today and have started to learn it. It's a moving and evocative piece and you did it justice.
Simple but lovely piece Sir, thank you if you played this! A simple meal is always the most difficult to get right but tastes amazing - this is that for the ears!!!!!!
Thank you for this, it's a beautiful piece of music and it's played beautifully ❤️
perfect tempo...played too fast by others! very moving
My late wife and I loved this piece, so when I hear it, eight years and 5 months after her death, it brings up some tears from the depths of my heart.
May you find peace, sir.
Much love to you ❤️
Music has the power to bring about emotion, and I think perhaps sometimes we need that as a release. I get that from some songs, with a feeling which is a mix of loving remembrance and loss. I hope you're doing ok.
I listen for the connection to my sister, 2 years 3 months.
I can so very much understand that.
I'm just about on the right side of 74 and reviving my urge to play again after over 60 years. I learned to play the piano accordion at 9 but had to give up at 14 when my father became ill and we had to sell the accordion (to eat!). I bought a second-hand electronic keyboard after my husband died just over 3 years ago but only just feeling the need to play. This is will be my go to piece. It's just glorious. I live on a Scottish island and look our of my window down the loch to Iona. What more could I need?
I wish you well. There is so much joy to be had from music. I play rather poorly but my son is a very accomplished musician currently studying at the RNCM and I have had even more joy following his progress as a musician.
Although I am English, I have always loved Scotland and the Highlands in particular. My other son is studying at St Andrews and I am looking forward to the end of lockdown so my wife and I can visit Scotland again.
Music is Humanity & Love. Playing it can be a glorious thing.💚🎶🎶🎶
You already have it all
Music is in the deepest part of your heart
Please don't let pain cause you to leave it behind as I did
In fact, your post has inspired me to go back
Will you join me?
Lovely post.
@@joshuarosen6242 I have had several attempts to play the piano, even got to Grade 4 but gave up when my teacher moved. Keep practicing she said but........now its all forgotten.
Have the urge to try again but at 94 I may have left it a bit late.
However......???
Simon, Stromness was my mother's favourite place on earth. When one of her friends who is a musician suggested we use this piece to remember her, I listened to many versions and chose yours as my favourite. We used this video at her Zoom funeral in December 2020, and it brings a tear - and sweet memories of visiting Orkney with her - again many months later. Thank you so much.
This so beautiful in it's simplicity and awakens a longing in me to go back to Scotland which is so much part of my long gone family and past. How is it that 6 people cannot 'like 'it? Bizarre....
They say you can't please everyone.
I burst into tears the first time I heard this piece. Maybe the most perfect piece of music ever written
Amen!!!
I found this song in a collection of my sister's music. It touches my soul every time I listen.
Very beautifully played at a relaxed pace with such sensitivity. My favourite version by far. Excellent performance Simon.
I just heard the news today. RIP Sir Peter.
I return to this again and again, agonizing and beautiful and delicate...
how could you not. wonderful piece of music
I've had the sheet music to this piece sitting in my hard drive for 3 years without ever realizing how beautiful a piece it is. After listening to this I'm looking forward to learning how to play it
Thank you Sir Peter. We are defined by our contribution to humanity. What a beautiful definition.
This was played on an organ today at a funeral. I will be having this piece too accept on piano. Good Bye Jack. You are gone but not forgotten.
I've had to find Farewell to Stromness on U-tube as no one mentioned this piece in all the items about Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. it is so very simple but I have loved it for years. Thank you for such beauty.
A Scot
Una composizione che arriva direttamente al cuore.
We all have to go how nice when you can leave this behind
Of all the performances of this piece on CZcams, this is the best. Captures the pain, the anger and the yearning of the prospect of losing such a special place as well as the specialness of the place itself.
...or a person, for that matter.
@@katydid2k yes that's possible too, though they were referring to how PMD created this piece as a protest song against uranium mining in Orkney. Pretty much the soundtrack to Andrew Yang's "Get to Higher Ground" and Brad Pitt's "Movement is Life - Movimiento es Vida" in World War Z for me (if World War Z is set in a Jane Austenian universe facing climate crisis.) Farewell to Florida. Farewell to Antarctica. Farewell, Tropical Islands!
my performing arts teacher set us an assignment to listen to this song and jeez is it emotional
Such a alluring piece of music and this recording in particular is the one that I come back to. It haunts me in a very beautiful and romantic way.
Beautiful music beautifully paced helping us through these painful days. I’ve searched everywhere to find this music. This is the most delicately realised I have found.
Thank you for this beautiful calming music....
RIP Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
I first heard this beautiful piece played just after HM Queen Elizabeth II died last year, 8th September 2022. We were all still in shock, and it was played with such sensitivity. It's importance wasn't lost as Peter Maxwell Davies was Master of the Queen's Music.
Beautiful music from a beautiful man. RIP.
I love the way the opening and closing sections seem to swell like the waves...
A brilliant composer, and a true champion of music education - a great man indeed.
So beautiful... tears to my eyes.
Just heard this closing PM on Radio 4 , 5.55pm 10th March 2020. They played it as an antidote to all the bad news going on at present, Coronavirus etc.
Like all good music you hear for the first time, I heard it in the background and I had to stop and was transfixed.
Absolutely beautiful.
It must be on the soundtrack of a film somewhere.
Glyn, I heard this piece for the first time at the end of PM today too. It started just as I got home but I had to sit in the car and listen to it right through. What a lovely piece of music - think I will ask to have it played at my funeral!!
I also heard this today on PM and was transfixed too. So wonderful.
I heard it for the first time too on PM. Absolutely beautiful
Well just over 1 year since my post and what a year. Working from home, great, spending time with wife and home schooling grandkids, great, walking around the local moors, great, silliest quiz every week with my friends and realising we're still kids at heart, great. A year of late night CZcams surfing great
Lost my job in Dec, not so great, not seem family, not so great.
1st Jab on Wednesday (24th March).
Mercifully we've all stayed Covid free (I think).
Whose going to believe us in 20 years time? Hope your all safe.
I heard this piece on radio 4 several years before 2020 lol. Such a pretty song :)
RIP Sir Peter.
RIP to a hugely talented man. You will be sorely missed!
your music is ethereal, God Bless and rest in peace
This is a lovely and calming piece of music
this beautiful music goes straight to the heart..breathtakingly beautiful!
Such a beautiful piece of music. Completely lovely.
You're right there, mate.
Timeless ... Just timeless .... RIP xx
This makes me weep every time I hear it. Thank you Max. God Bless you
Makes me homesick, never fails to bring tears. The Orkney Islands!
The very first time I heard this, the images evoked within my mind is of the Scottish islands.
my husband and i both stopped everything when this played- looking out the window at the trees. i cried when i learned why this was written
I just hear this on desert island discs today. Thanks to the lady who selected it and thanks to the BBC. How could anyone threaten such a beautiful thing.
I did just the same thing. I’ve trawled around iTunes all day but I come back to this recording as the most soulful.
Yes, me too. Had to look it up as soon as I could. Beautiful.
Yup, I looked up the link to that episode. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000nkgt
Such a wonderfully soul-soothing work and playing ....
Beautiful music. Thank you for the prayers
A beautiful piece of music
Really brings up some deep emotions in me - beautiful
Always think of George Mackay Brown when I hear this (and the Stromness pub with its bars and lumpy beds and incredibly lethel electrics) .....
How can people dislike this piece !?!
I love this piece so much!
How beautiful, peaceful and tender!
Just heard the sad news. RIP Sir Peter.
In my opinion one of the most beautiful pieces of protest music ever composed.
so beautiful RIP Sir Peter
A través de un programa de tv, descubrí al compositor Maxwell Davies y, concretamente, esta pieza. Me ha parecido muy hermosa, además, conociendo el lugar, el paisaje en la que se inspira tiene aun más sentido. Contiene la majestuosidad, la belleza del Mar del Norte y sus playas salvajes. Maravillosa .
I heard this for the 1st time today on the US NPR network. Magnificent
RIP Peter thank you for what you leave behind for others to love
RIP.. Your music will brighten heaven
This is a nicely-paced account: so many rush it and lose much of the character! Thanks.
This is so much different than pieces of his such as "Revelation and Fall" and "Eight Songs for a Mad King".
Never mind beds and electrics - this has to be one of the most beautiful pieces of music composed over the last 50 years or so - and played here with such delicacy! Thanks for posting this
TheMinisigi It IS haunting. And the rocking of the waves is so evoked in the opening and closing sections. But you have to go there - Stromness and the Orkneys are wonderfully strange and contradictory. One day clear pellucid waters - the next seaweed being hurled against your windows from the harbour. But a lovely lullaby and farewell for George Mackay Brown.
autolycuscus I'm sorry - I didn't really mean to run down your own associations. So many pieces of music we love with particular associations of times or places - and those things are valuable even if they don't mean a lot to anybody else! One day I must indeed go to Orkney.
Fr Jonathan n
Happy new year 2022. Sweet classic song. I hope you are happy with what you do. Success always for you..
So simple and so utterly beautiful.
RIP Sir Peter Maxwell.
Great video enjoyed watching thank you 💘
Omg this brings back so many memories of school!! 😭😭😭😭
I never got as far as Stromness but this piece always reminds me of leaving St Andrews never to return. I suppose that's the power of really great music, it could be saying farewell to anywhere, or anyone, really.
Just heard this on Desert Island Discs - one of Richard Wilson's choices
Came here to listen to this fully after listening to that very episode......... What a lovely lovely tune.
@@andreaknapp6085Same for me.
RIP...only heard this piece for the first time on the day he died. Can't stop playing it now. xx
+Anna short Me too.
And me
Peter Maxwell Davies played this at George Mackay Brown's funeral in Kirkwall Cathedral
Yes, it was breathtaking, Annette
eerie beautiful music.
Farewell to Max. Rest in music.
Beautiful! Thank you so much! And thanks to Classic FM for introducing it to us! :)
I love this piece…
The music is a part with the land, the sea, the sky. It is quintessentially Scots, Celtic. My opinion is it strikes so close to the heart because it mimics so closely the language and the rhythm of the people - for me it's very female and maternal... Anyhoo I can't hear it without wanting to run far and fast to Scotland Enjoy your listen x
GENIUS!
Hoy estoy escuchando esta pieza gracias al libro "Un año para maravillarse" de Clemency Burton-Hill, recomendadísimo. A mí me está descubriendo obras que de otra manera no habría conocido nunca. Preciosa pieza, sin palabras.
Yo también estoy escuchando esta pieza gracias al mismo libro, que me parece una maravilla, si te gusta la música. La pieza también me parece maravillosa.
Thank you! I just bought this book thanks to your suggestion
Peter used to regularly frequent the hotel I worked summers in whilst I was studying. He didnt like being called 'Sir Peter' instead we all called him Max. Was a really humble and pleasant guy, I remember a funny story one of the other staff told me:
At a bit of a fancy event, a few guests who were quite obnoxious and clearly fancied themselves were showing off their expensive watches in front of everyone. Max turned around and told them his watch did everything theirs did (told the time) but only cost him £12. Apparently it shut them right up 🤣.
Music is so much poorer in 2016. Late last year we lost Pierre Boulez, this year we have lost David Bowie, Keith Emerson, George Martin and now Max. All ground breaking innovative musicians in their own way. Thankfully their influence is forever there
+Philip Kaminsky even though there will be fresh...
李真娜是的，这是真的 ~ Lǐzhēnnà shì de, zhè shì zhēn de ~
"Snort". I won't miss Pierre Boulez, and I doubt I'm the only one to feel that.
Buen compositor. A mí me encanta su sonata para trompeta y piano
Perfection
Thanks for your help with the right hand rhythm on Page 2!
Beautiful! I heard the guitar versions and I definitely prefer this.
RIP Sir Peter Maxwell
No words possible.
god rest your soul Peter
Just heard this on Desert Island Discs and it really hit a chord.........when I had to leave my caravan in the Dales.
Evan Davies led me here. Sublime music
Your music will never pass on
I'm late but...R.I.P. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
Thank you Bill Brovold for turning me on to this. Marvelous.
brilliant
RIP Sir Maxwell
Love you Max, hero and friend xxxxxxxx
R.I.P
This is what Max would have wanted.
Only this version will do
Similar in some ways to Ashokan Farewell … I love both.
Gould playing this, would have been a Masterpiece for the Ages.
Beautiful piece. Beautifully played. I wish I was sitting on the harbour wall at Stromness eating a deep-fried Whooper Swan Supper watching the sun set. What a guy Peter was!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Maxwell_Davies#Personal_life
Chosen by Richard Wilson for his Desert island discs
I would have this played at my funeral.
Beautful
Beautiful, exquisitely phrased and not too fast. Who's playing?
Max himself I believe.
Best protest music, ever