Michael Nyman

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...

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...

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.

This work, composed for Children's Voices and String Quartet, was commissioned by the Young People's Chorus of New York City.

A setting of Psalm 51, originally written for the film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover.

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.

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...

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.

Written for saxophone quartet, this work was first performed by Saxofourte in 2004.

Arranged for saxophone quartet.

Arranged for saxophone quartet.

Written for three soprano saxophones and a tenor saxophone.

Written for three soprano saxophones and a tenor saxophone.

Written for saxophone quartet.

Written for two amplified violins.

For violin, cello and piano 'The title 'Time Will Pronounce'is taken from the last lines of Joseph Brodsky's poem 'Bosnia Tune' which deals with the horror of the unnecessary, unacceptable daily death...