Chester Music

For Low Female Voice And Ensemble. 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 eine...

Michael Nyman was inspired to write this single-movement piece Self Laudatory Hymn Of Inanna And Her Omnipotence in 1992 after having discovered the text in the library of a friend. The words belong t...

Written for soprano and ensemble (Eb clarinet, C clarinet, viola, cello, double bass) with text by Mozart.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat investigates the world of a person with visual agnosia such people 'see but do not see'. This Chamber Opera by Michael Nyman, with libretto by Oliver Sacks, Chri...

Miserere was written in 1989 for the soundtrack of the film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. It is a setting of the Latin text of Psalm 51. Originally scored for solo Treble and mixed Choir,...

Arrangement for soprano saxophone and string quartet. Score and parts included. Premiere: 1991 Zurich. Shaping the Curve was composed for John Harle in 1990 and is based strictly on a sequence of four...

The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi was commissioned by the Santa Monica Museum of Arts as an original score for the installation The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi by MaryKelly. The words are used/reproduced...

The parts consist of Piano accompaniment, melody in C, melody in Eb and melody in Bb.

Michael Nyman's Trumpet & String Quartet. Duration: 15 minutes.

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 Whitman. Originally s...

Score and parts for Michael Nyman's A Neat Slice Of Saraband, for the Clarinet, Trombone, Cello and Piano.

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 Full Score and...

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 Full Score and...

This is the full score and parts for Chromattic by Michael Nyman, scored for Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Accordion, Marimba and Double Bass. The work was composed by the Chroma Ensemble, and la...

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. Vocal s...

A song composed for Letters, Riddles and Writs directed by Jeremy Newson in 1990/1. Devised for the Artifax/BBC 'NOT MOZART' series commemorating the bicentenary of Mozart's death, the film takes as s...

Parts for 'The Piano Sings'. Scored for Soprano and String Quartet.

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...

A chamber ensemble piece that reflects Holt's passion for the visual arts and literature. The Banshee according to legend is less a shape than a mournful screaming that haunts the Irish night and the...

Kites is scored for wind quintet and string quintet and came about through Holt's interest in Japanese things. The kite that features is preceded by an introduction of fragile, slow and serene scene-s...

Canciones are three Spanish songs; A love song, a setting of Cancione de Jinete by Lorca and a lyric. The outer poems are anonymous but are cited by Lorca in his essay on Duende which can be roughly t...

Work for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Cello written in 1980. Parts available: CH66869-01