Nicholas Maw Sheet Music for Ensemble

Maw's Trio is a work of huge confidence, scope and scale, properly compared in the accompanying notes to Fauré in its ample melodic sweep. Indeed, has there been a finer piano trio since Shostakovich?...

. . . a genuinely atmospheric, highly allusive, tautly organized suite of dance references. Maw's titles and tempo indications suggest a fashionably vampiric nightmare, but the music sounded warm and...

Maw's harmonic eloquence and rhythmic fervour crystallize the initial agitation to become a flowing vocal line coloured by the writing for flute, viola and harp, the words borne aloft like a continuat...

Nicholas Maw’s The Head of Orpheus (1992) is a 6-minute setting of a poem by the American poet Robert Kelly for high voice and two clarinets. Written for Mary Wiegold and the Composers Ensemble,...

It has a lucidity and balance, a subtle refinement of substance and texture. . . it is a work that will no doubt quickly establish, or certainly ought to establish, a regular place in what is a surpri...

. . . a marvellous essay in the poetics of atonality - tender, subtly interweaving strains of thought. . . Peter Stadlen, Daily Telegraph. This quartet was commissioned by The Nash Ensemble and was gi...

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