Work: Ebb of Winter

The Proms celebrate the 80th birthday of one of the UK's most fascinating and engaging composers with musical images of fierce weather and strong whisky.

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Scottish Chamber Orchestra composer in residence in the late 1980s, seemed an appropriate choice to write a piece for this, the orchestra’s 40th anniversary year. As the title suggests, Concert Overture: Ebb of Winter was written during the approach of Spring this year and portrays the changing seasons in Maxwell Davies’ adopted homeland of Orkney.