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Compositions by Michael Nyman

13 compositions
Composition M Catalog Comp'd Duration Publisher Notes  
Quartet No. 1 1985 C

Chester

 
Includes: Optional electronics (amplification)
Commissioned by:

Arditti Quartet


Dedicated to / written for:

Thurston Dart (m.)


Quartet No. 2

Miniatures/Configurations

1988 C

Chester

Dance collaboration with Shobana Jeyasingh; for 1, 3, or 4 dancers

Includes: Optional electronics (amplification)
Commissioned by:

Shobana Jeyasingh; Bălănescu Quartet


Miserere 1989 B

Chester

From the music for the movie The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover, directed by Peter Greenaway; adaptation by the composer of his own music

Includes: Soprano
Miserere Paraphrase 19uu A

Chester

From the music for the movie The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover, directed by Peter Greenaway; adaptation by the Lyric Quartet

Quartet No. 3 1990 B

Chester

 
Includes: Optional electronics (amplification)
Dedicated to / written for:

Bălănescu Quartet


In re Don Giovanni 1991 A

Chester

Adaptation by the composer of his own music

Dedicated to / written for:

Bălănescu Quartet


Ariel Songs, Version 1 1992 A

Chester

From Prospero’s Books​; text by William Shakespeare; adaptation by the composer of his own music

Includes: Low voice
Ariel Songs, Version 2 1992

Chester

From Prospero’s Books​; text by William Shakespeare; adaptation by the composer of his own music

Includes: Low voice
Ariel Songs, Version 3 1992

Chester

From Prospero’s Books; text by William Shakespeare; adaptation by the composer of his own music

Includes: Low voice
Quartet No. 4 1995 D

Chester

 
Dedicated to / written for:

Alan Bush (m.); Camilli Quartet


Mapping 2002 A

Chester

For a film by Pete Gomes about Antoni Malinowski

Commissioned by:

Antoni Malinowski


Tango 2006

From the music for the film Never Forever, directed by Gina Kim

Quartet No. 5

“Let’s Not Make a Song and Dance out of It”

2011 B

Chester

 
Commissioned by:

Arts 276, Festival Automne en Normandie