Michael Nyman

At every turn Nyman has proved eminently practical. Not for him the ivory tower anguish of a tormented composer grappling with abstract systems. Rather he has consistently displayed an openness to col...

On The Fiddle consists of three pieces derived from scores to three Peter Greenaway films. The first piece Full Fathom Five, is a version of the Shakespeare song setting made for Prospero's Books (199...

The Violin Concerto was commissioned by Stiftung Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. It was first performed by Gidon Kremer (violin) and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchester conducted by Den...

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...

Sixteen songs and seven arias for high voice and Piano, composed over a fifteen-year period from 1989 to 2004, with texts in English, French, German and translations from German, Portuguese and Russia...

A work for soprano voice and piano using text from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'.

Concerto, for piano and small orchestra, based entirely on material selected from the soundtrack for the film The Piano. Commissioned by the Festival de Lille, it was composed in spring 1993 and first...

Originally composed in 2007, this is the Full Score to the 2013 revised version. Duration: 21 minutes.

At every turn Nyman has proved eminently practical. Not for him the ivory tower anguish of a tormented composer grappling with abstract systems. Rather he has consistently displayed an openness to col...

Something Connected with Energy was composed in 2008 and was commissioned by the Festival Della Scienza 2008, Genova, Italy with financial support by ERG. Scored for Flute/Piccolo, Clarinet/Bass Clari...

Symphony No. 5 by Michael Nyman. Premiered on 2 May 2013 in Auditorio Miguel Delibes, Valladolid by Orquesta de Castilla y Leon, conducted by Jaime Martin. The symphony is one of nineteen Nyman has pl...

The first feature film collaboration between Peter Greenaway and Michael Nyman, made in 1983, following a major series of short/independent films they made together - including The Falls and A Walk th...

Symphony No. 2 began its life as Pozcatek, a 'Michael Nyman Band' 'soundtrack' that was written for the Michael Nyman Band to accompany a selection of sequences from post-war Polish filmsthatNyman sel...

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...

Rochester's Farewell from The Libertine directed by Laurence Dunmore by Michael Nyman, with words by Stephen Jeffreys.

Scored for Soprano and Organ. This work was commissioned by the Bath Festival Trust, and first performed in 1994 as part of the Bath International Music Festival.

Composed for Yorkshire TV's series 'Titch', arranged for Voice and Piano. Text by Pat Hutchins.

I Sonetti Lussuriosi is a collection of pieces by world-renowned composer Michael Nyman. This work is a setting of 8 pieces of erotic poetry by Italian poet Pietro Aretino. This is the Vocal Score whi...

This is a wordless work for treble solo and SAA choir by Michael Nyman.

This saxophone concerto, written in one continuous movement with a wide variety of tempi, celebrates the talents of John Harle, who has been a central player in the Michael Nyman Band for over ten yea...