Michael Nyman

For Solo Piano. As featured in the Lloyds TSB Bank adverts and the award-winning film The Piano.

Score for this piece, which was comissioned by London Brass and first performed in 1992. Quoting composer: The piece was completed without title on 12th August 1992. A title once considered was Canons...

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,...

Score for 'The Piano Sings'. Quoting Nyman: 'In writing for The Piano, I had to establish not only the usual repertoire of music for the film, but a specific repertoire of piano music that would have...

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.

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...