Sechs Kompositionen für Klavier solo von Michael Nyman, aus dem preisgekrönten Film von Jane Campion. Der englische Komponist Michael Nyman hat sich zu einem der populärsten, wenn nicht sogar wichtigs...
Songs for Tony arranged for saxophone quartet. Includes score and parts. Duration 10 minutes. Composed 1993.
A selection of pieces and arrangements by Michael Nyman of his best-known film music. Including music from The Draughtsman's Contract, Drowning By Numbers, Carrington and The Piano.
The long-awaited collection of familiar Michael Nyman melodic creations in intermediate level arrangements for soprano saxophone and piano.
These three solo harpsichord pieces are a collection of recent compositions, each with an individual theme and idea. The first, The convertibility of Lute Strings, was first performed at the Purcell R...
Arranged for organ. Duration 10 minutes. Commissioned by Symphony Hall Birmingham 2001.
Available for the first time for solo piano: four arrangements from the soundtrack plus the two favourite themes from the award-winning film by Jane Champion.
For Solo Bass Clarinet Eos commissioned Nyman to write a score for the 10-minute silent film Manhatta, a Jazz Age piece lacing together images of inter-way Manhattan with the (projected) words of Walt...
Written for saxophone quartet.
String Quartet No.4 was written for the Camilli Quartet who gave the first performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, April 1995. It is dedicated to the memory of Nyman's composition teacher, Al...
String Quartet No. 3 was written for, and first performed by the Balanescu Quartet, February 1990 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Duration 16 minutes. Instrumental parts are available on sale. Qu...
String Quartet No. 4 was written for the Camilli Quartet who gave the first performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, April 1995. It is dedicated to the memory of Nyman's composition teacher, A...
Set of Parts for Nyman's 'In Re Don Giovanni' for amplified string quartet. The arrangement for string quartet was made at the request of Alexander Balanescu for the Bicentenary of Mozart's death in 1...
British composer Michael Nyman 'discovered' this work when he played Leporello's catalogue aria from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni on the Piano in the style of Jerry Lee Lewis. He has written that that...
Arranged for string quintet by the composer.
A transcription of a work for small orchestra (the score for Peter Greenaway's film A Zed & Two Noughts) scored for solo violin. Composed and first performed in Paris in 1986. Edited by Alexander Bala...
This cycle of settings of poems by Paul Celan was written between May and July 1990 for Ute Lemper. The texts are taken from the following collections: 'Chanson einer Dame im Schatten' and 'Corona' fr...
Solo Saxophone part. Where The Bee Dances was commissioned by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, and premiered 13 July 1991 at the Cheltenham Festival.
Composed for John Harle in 1990 and is based strictly on a sequence of four chords.
For Solo Piano. As featured in the Lloyds TSB Bank adverts and the award-winning film The Piano.
And Do They Do was comissioned by Siobhan Davies and the London Contemporary Dance Theatre. It was composed during the summer of 1986 and first performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre on 25 November in th...
The fifth feature film that Peter Greenaway and Michael Nyman produced in 1991, Prosperos Book is a reworking of The Tempest. The score was written for the Michael Nyman Band and made into a suite for...
This work was written by Michael Nyman towards the end of 1997, commissioned by the English Sinfonia to celebrate the orchestra's taking up residence in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. The first performance...
Work for two Sopranos, Alto and Band composed in 1990.
Michael Nymans Klavierkonzert basiert auf Material aus der Filmmusik zum Filmdrama 'The Piano' ('Das Piano', 1993).
Quoting Nyman: This Concerto was composed during the winter of 1994/95 for Elisabeth Chojnacka, who gave the first performance with the Michael Nyman String Orchestra on 29th April 1995 in the Queen E...
This is a wordless work for treble solo and SAA choir by Michael Nyman.
A setting of Psalm 51, originally written for the film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover.
Out of the Ruins touches on Gregorian chant and sacred music of the Baroque. This is a slowly evolving requiem that draws on Armenian traditions with no hint of Nyman's signature propulsiverhythms. So...
Balancing The Books was commissioned by the swingle singers for the Bach 250th anniversary celebrations. The work uses material from the C sharp Major Preludes from Bach's two books of the 48 Preludes...
Composer's Notes: When I was asked to write a piece to celebrate the restoration of Michelangelo's Mosè, I returned to the paper written by Sigmund Freud on the sculpture which I had discovered by cha...
Nyman's 2011 The Prologue to Dido and Aeneas is a prologue to Henry Purcell's opera on a libretto by Nahum Tate. The libretto is based on Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid. It recounts the love of Dido, Quee...
The composer made this arrangement of the Third String Quartet for string orchestra in March 2003. The first performance was given by the Eos Orchestra, New York, conducted by Ken Selden in the Concer...
Facing Goya, Nyman's first full-length opera, is written in four acts on a libretto by Victoria Hardie. Following it's first performance in 2000, it was revised in 2002 and again in 2014. In its origi...
This work was commissioned jointly by BBC Radio 3 and the Royal Philharmonic Society as part of the New Generation Artists Scheme and was first performed at The Venue, Leeds College of Music, 20th Nov...
This work, composed for Children's Voices and String Quintet, was commissioned by the Young People's Chorus of New York City. Conductor's score and String Parts are available from the Publishers. My t...
This work, composed for Children's Voices and String Quartet, was commissioned by the Young People's Chorus of New York City.
Water Dances is a work scored for two pianos from 2011. Much of the work is an arrangement of the music written for the Michael Nyman Band for Peter Greenaway's 1984 film Making a Splash. The two-pian...
Setting the texts of Robert Herrick, this work for Countertenor and Viol Consort was commissioned by Paulin Bündgen - Ensemble Céladon, Grame, cncm and Centre culturel de rencontre d'Ambronay. Score a...
Michael Nyman 's 'Viola And Piano', composed in 2009. This version was revised in 2014 and is scored for Flute, Clarinet, Piano, Violin and Cello.
Written for the South Korean-American romantic drama film Never Forever first screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Recorded by The Smith Quartet on Signum Classics.
Nyman's 2011 The Prologue to 'Dido and Aeneas' is a prologue to Henry Purcell's opera on a libretto by Nahum Tate. The libretto is based on Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid. It recounts the love of Dido, Qu...
These four ostinatos, composed by Michael Nyman (entitled Bird List Song, Drawing II: days 4 and 5, Mouth to Mouth and Melody Lists) amount to over 20 minutes of music.
This piece was commissioned in 1991 by Graham Ashton for his album 'The Contemporary Trumpet'. Quoting Graham Ashton: Michael Nyman wrote Flugel and Piano for me during a period when I felt his approa...
Written for saxophone quartet, this work was first performed by Saxofourte in 2004.
Arranged for saxophone quartet.
