Michael Nyman - Works

Works

  • 1963 – Introduction and Allegro Concertato for Wind Quartet (lost)
  • 1963 – Divertimento for Flute, Oboe and Clarinet
  • 1965 – Canzona for Flute
  • 1974 – Bell Set No. 1 (multiple metal percussion)
  • 1976 – 1–100 (4–6 pianos)
  • 1976 – (First) Waltz in D (variable)
  • 1976 – (Second) Waltz in F (variable)
  • 1977 – In Re Don Giovanni (ensemble)
  • 1978 – The Otherwise Very Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz (multiple pianos)
  • 1979 – "The Masterwork" Award Winning Fish-Knife (ensemble)
  • 1980 – A Neat Slice of Time (choir)
  • 1981 – Think Slow, Act Fast (ensemble)
  • 1981 – Five Orchestral Pieces for Opus Tree (band*) (based on Anton Webern's Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 10)
  • 1981 – M-Work (band)
  • 1981 – 2 Violins
  • 1982 – Four Saxes (Real Slow Drag) (saxophone quartet)
  • 1983 – A Handsome, Smooth, Sweet, Smart, Clear Stroke: Or Else Play Not At All

(orchestra)

  • 1983 – Time's Up (chamber ensemble)
  • 1983 – I'll Stake My Cremona to a Jew's Trump (electric violin and viola, both players also simultaneously singing)
  • 1983 – Love is Certainly, at Least Alphabetically Speaking (soprano and band)
  • 1984 – The Abbess of Andouillets (choir)
  • 1985 – Nose-List Song (soprano and orchestra)
  • 1985 – Childs Play (2 violins; harpsichord)
  • 1985 – String Quartet No. 1
  • 1986 – Taking a Line for a Second Walk (for orchestra (Basic Black) or piano duet)
  • 1986 – The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera; libretto by Christopher Rawlence; adapted from the Oliver Sacks case study by Nyman, Rawlence, and Michael Morris)
  • 1986 – And Do They Do (modern dance, 1986)
  • 1987 – Vital Statistics (opera; libretto by Victoria Hardie)
  • 1988 – String Quartet No. 2
  • 1989 – Out of the Ruins (choir)
  • 1989 – La Traversée de Paris (soprano and band)
  • 1989 – The Fall of Icarus (band)
  • 1989 – L'Orgie Parisienne Arthur Rimbaud setting (soprano or mezzo soprano and orchestra)
  • 1989 – La Sept (band)
  • 1990 – Shaping the Curve (soprano saxophone, string quartet or piano)
  • 1990 – Six Celan Songs (contralto and orchestra)
  • 1990 – Polish Love Song (soprano and piano)
  • 1990 – String Quartet No. 3
  • 1990 – The Kiss and Other Movements
  • 1991 – The Michael Nyman Songbook A collection of songs based on texts by Paul Celan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Shakespeare, and Arthur Rimbaud and recorded with vocalist Ute Lemper.
  • 1991 – Where the Bee Dances (soprano saxophone and orchestra)
  • 1991 – Fluegelhorn and Piano
  • 1992 – Time Will Pronounce (violin, cello, and piano)
  • 1992 – For John Cage (brass ensemble)
  • 1992 – Self-Laudatory Hymn of Inanna and Her Omnipotence (alto and string orchestra or countertenor and viol consort)
  • 1992 – The Convertibility of Lute Strings (solo harpsichord)
  • 1992 – Anne de Lucy Songs (soprano and piano)
  • 1992 – Le Mari de la Coiffeuse (The Hairdresser's Husband)
  • 1992 – The Upside-Down Violin (orchestra/ensemble)
  • 1993 – MGV: Musique à grande vitesse (band and orchestra)
  • 1993 – The Piano Concerto (piano and orchestra)
  • 1993 – Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs (1993; opera-ballet setting William Shakespeare's The Tempest)
  • 1993 – Yamamoto Perpetuo (violin solo)
  • 1993 – Songs for Tony (saxophone quartet)
  • 1994 – To Morrow (soprano or soprano saxophone, organ)
  • 1994 – 3 Quartets (ensemble)
  • 1994 – Concerto for Trombone (trombone, orchestra, and steel filing cabinets)
  • 1995 – String Quartet No. 4
  • 1995 – Tango for Tim (In memoriam Tim Suster) (harpsichord)
  • 1995 – The Waltz Song (unison voices)
  • 1995 – Viola and Piano
  • 1995 – Grounded (mezzo-soprano, saxophones, violin, piano)
  • 1995 – HRT (chamber ensemble)
  • 1995 – Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings
  • 1995 – Double Concerto for Saxophone and Cello (saxophone, cello, and orchestra)
  • 1996 – After Extra Time (ensemble)
  • 1996 – Enemy Zero (game music)
  • 1996 - The Ogre
  • 1997 – Enemy Zero – Original Soundtrack
  • 1997 – Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks (orchestra)
  • 1997 – The Promise (piano)
  • 1997 – Gattaca
  • 1998 – Titch (worked on the main opening/closing piano theme).
  • 1998 – Cycle of Disquietude (Coisas, Vozes, Lettras) (soprano, mezzo-soprano, and band)
  • 1998 – Orfeu (band)
  • 1998 – De Granada A La Luna (band)
  • 1999 – The Commissar Vanishes (band)
  • 1999 – The End of the Affair
  • 2000 – Facing Goya (opera; libretto by Victoria Hardie)
  • 2001 – a dance he little thinks of (orchestra)
  • 2003 – Violin Concerto (violin and orchestra)
  • 2003 – Man and Boy: Dada (opera; libretto by Michael Hastings)
  • 2005 – Love Counts (opera; libretto by Michael Hastings)
  • 2006 – gdm for Marimba and Orchestra (concerto)
  • 2006 – Acts of Beauty' (song cycle)
  • 2007 – A Handshake in the Dark (choral piece with orchestra; text by Jamal Jumá )
  • 2007 – Interlude in C (expansion of a theme from The Libertine for Accent07 touring ensemble)
  • 2007 – Eight Lust Songs song cycle
  • 2008 – Yamamoto Perpetuo for Solo Flute (arranged by Andy Findon)
  • 2009 – Sparkie: Cage and Beyond opera with Carsten Nicolai
  • 2009 – The Musicologist Scores (band)
  • 2010 – 2Graves
  • 2010 – Vertov Sounds

*originally recorded by Nyman, Ned Sublette, Susan Krongold, Barbara Benary, Jon Gibson, Richard Cohen, Virgil Blackwell, Peter Zummo, and Peter Gordon at The Kitchen, and intended for Peter Greenaway's short film, The Tree.

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