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2002 – Beckham Crosses, Nyman Scores (string quartet and tape), derive Exit, No Exit for bass clarinet and string quartet in 2005 2002 – Dance of the Engines (orchestra) 2002 – Mapping (video art music for string quartet)
– MN August 2005 Michael Nyman’s score for Jane Campion’s 1993 film The Piano is one of the most successful film soundtracks of all time. The film itself won the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival in 1993 and went on to win several Oscars at the 1994 Academy Awards.
Man and Boy: Dada. Michael Nyman has been touring the UK promoting his CD, The Piano Sings, which inaugurated his own new label, MN records. I met him in the Café/Bar of the Sage Concert Hall, Gateshead on 7 November 2005 shortly before he was about to perform on stage.
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat (1986) 1hr 20' Libretto: Christopher Rawlence, based on the case study by Oliver Sacks. Cast: Mrs P (soprano), Dr S (tenor), Dr P (baritone)
- Six Celan Songs (1990) 33' contralto; cl(bcl).2ssx(2asx)barsx(fl,pic)[bsx(fl/pic)]/hn.tpt.btbn/pf/ebgtr/3vn.va.2vc. This cycle of settings of poems by Romanian-born German-language poet Paul Celan was written between May and July 1990 for Ute Lemper.
- String Quartet No 3 (1990) 16' 2 violins, viola, cello. Written for a benefit concert for Romania, held at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. The third quartet is based on an earlier choral work by Nyman about a devastating earthquake in Armenia written the year before, Out of the Ruins (1989).
- Where the Bee Dances (1992) 21' soprano saxophone; 1(pic).1+ca.1+bcl.2/2.1.0+btbn.0/pf/str(66432) Commissioned by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, premiered by John Harle.
Oct 14, 2005 · Andrew Clements. Fri 14 Oct 2005 19.05 EDT. M ichael Nyman has set out on his first tour as a solo performer, calling it "The Piano Sings". It's hard to know whether the title is meant...
Composed in 1985, the powerful String Quartet No. 1 sets its medium in an almost symphonic context, imbuing the quartet sound with a visceral force that is reminiscent of Nyman’s own classical-meets-rock ensemble, the Michael Nyman Band, for which he wrote extensively during the 1980s and 1990s. The first quartet is also unusual in the way it ...
Mar 22, 2019 · Michael Nyman celebrates his 75th birthday March 23 2019. Nyman is undoubtedly one of the UK’s most innovative, celebrated, and globally performed composers. His reputation is built upon a substantial body of work written for a wide variety of ensembles, not only for his own band, but also for symphony orchestra, choir, and string quartet.
