Six original compositions for solo piano, by Michael Nyman, from the award winning film by Jane Campion. English composer Michael Nyman has developed into one of the most popular, if not important, co...
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.
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...
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...
Chamber Opera. Libretto by Oliver Sacks, Christopher Rawlence and Michael Morris after The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks. First performed on 27 October 1986. Duration 1hr 10 minut...
Solo Saxophone part. Where The Bee Dances was commissioned by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, and premiered 13 July 1991 at the Cheltenham Festival.
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...
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.
Work for two Sopranos, Alto and Band composed in 1990.
Michael Nyman's The Piano Concerto is based entirely on material selected from his soundtrack to Jane Campion's film 'The Piano. ' The original Orchestral score was commissioned by the Festival de Lil...
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.
The long-awaited collection of familiar Michael Nyman melodic creations in intermediate level arrangements for soprano saxophone and piano.
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.
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...
Songs for Tony arranged for saxophone quartet. Includes score and parts. Duration 10 minutes. Composed 1993.
Written for saxophone quartet, this work was first performed by Saxofourte in 2004.
Arranged for saxophone quartet.
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...
This work was written in June 2002 for the Ahn Trio at their request. It is derived from some harmonies of 'Come Unto These Yellow Sands' from 'Ariel Songs (Prospero's Books)'.
5 movements derived from the score I wrote for the Michael Nyman Band in early 2009 as a soundtrack to the film 'Poczatek'. For this project, I selected extracts from classic Polish feature and docume...
For Violin, Cello and Piano. Composer's Notes 'Even though this work was intended to celebrate (as instructed by the commissioner, Brolly Arts of Salt Lake City) the wildlife and landscape of Utah (an...
Four Pieces from Michael Nyman's score to the film 'The Piano' arranged for Piano Trio. Score and Parts.
Score commissioned by Mr. Keith H. Yoo to accompany the exhibition of Photography 'De Ma Fenetre' by Korean artist Ahae, held at the Jardin des Tuileries, Musee du Louvre, June 27th - August 26th 2012...
There are two primary ideas behind this composition, the first being to create and almost orchestral chamber music, the idea for this coming from a performance of the Große Fuge performed by the Ardit...
String Quartet No. 2 was commissioned by Shobana Jeyasingh as a solo dance work: Miniatures. It was first performed by her with the Balanescu Quartet on 15 September 1988, London. Duration 22 minutes....
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. 1 is dedicated to the memory of Thurston Dart. It was commissioned by the Arditti Quartet and first performed by them on 23 September 1985, Warsaw. Duration 26 minutes. The score fo...
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. A score is available on sale.. Quoting compo...
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...
The arrangement for string quartet was made at the request of Alexander Balanescu for the Bicentenary of Mozart's death in 1991. It was first performed by the Balanescu Quartet at the Queen Elizabeth...
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...
Score and Parts for Michael Nyman's fifth String Quartet 'Let's not make a song and dance out of it'.
Revisiting The Don is a piece of music composed by Michael Nyman for the album 'Mozart 252', a celebration of the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. Revisiting The Don is one of the two newly-compos...
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.
Commissioned by the Fine Arts Brass Ensemble for first performance at the 1991 Cambridge Festival. Duration 12 minutes. Set of parts is available for sale. Scored for 2 Trumpets, Horn, Trombone, Tuba.
Set of Parts for Nyman's 'Masque Arias' composed in 1991, for Brass Quintet. Instrumentation: 2 Trumpets in B Flat, Horn in F, Trombone, Tuba. Duration 12 minutes.
Viola and Piano was commissioned for the Hindermith Viola Festival and Kim Kashkashian and written during the summer of 1995, Viola and Piano is the third in an erratic series of virtuoso works for so...
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...
Yamamoto Perpetuo was written by Michael Nyman for solo Violin in 1993 to a commission by fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto for his show that year in Paris. Following its success, Nyman added a second V...
Written by Michael Nyman in 1971, and edited by Andy Keenan in 2012.
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...
Where The City's Ceaseless Crowds is a piece composed for Trumpet and Piano for an experimental 1920 film, 'Manhatta', which acclaimed composer Michael Nyman wrote in 2003. The title of the piece come...
Yamamoto Perpetuo was composed in 1993 at the request of Yohji Yamamoto to accompany his fashion show in Paris. Written with Alexander Balanescu in mind it became a virtuoso work in twelve movements....
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...
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.
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...
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...
