Michael Nyman

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...

Arranged for saxophone quartet.

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)'.

Work commissioned by Alexander Balanescu and Elisabeth Perry for electronically modified Violin and Viola with simultaneous singing.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Commissioned by and written for Nicola Walker Smith in October 1992, this set of songs takes as its starting point material from The Upside-Down Violin at Expo '92 in Seville by The Michael Nyman Band...