Nicholas Maw

One of two highly effective and entertaining collections of nonsense rhymes set to music by Nicholas Maw. The texts are, in the main, traditional, but rhymes by Lear, Carroll and Durfey are also inclu...

Also available from Nicholas Maw: Swete Jesu (Mixed Voices & Accompaniment) £2.50 Three Hymns (Mixed Voices & Accompaniment) £4.99 One Foot In Eden (Mixed Voices) £3.50

Sophie's Choice is an opera in four acts based upon the post-war dramatic novel by William Styron, and commissioned by BBC Radio 3 in association with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The opera w...

‘Full of luminous harmonies, rich choral textures and fine, eminently singable lines. The music is compelling, accessible and distinctive.’ Gramophone (Marc Rochester), January 2000

Based on a melodic text, Swete Jesu was written for the Choir of King's College, Cambridge in 1992 for their annual carol service.

Five Epigrams arranged for unaccompanied SATB are set to Robert Burns' poems.

A Winter Landscape (from 'Little Suite For Guitar'), composed by Nicholas Maw. Arranged for classical guitar solo in digital sheet music format.

Stamping Dance, composed by Nicholas Maw and arranged for classical guitar solo in digital sheet music format.

Reflection, composed by Nicholas Maw and arranged for classical guitar solo in digital sheet music format.

Song, composed by Nicholas Maw and arranged for classical guitar solo in digital sheet music format.

. . . a concerto of extraordinary beauty, a union of vitality and reflection. . . The concerto is wonderful to listen to, inspired in language and in its palette of instrumental colourings... Geoffrey...

An instant classic, a piece that will immediately touch and move people'. Sir Simon Rattle on Sophie's Choice, Instrumentation: 3 (III=picc).3 (III=ca).3(III=Ebcl).3(III=cbsn) - 5.3.2.1 - timp - perc...

A sequence of dances which make up a vigorous rhythmic romp, brilliantly written for the instruments.' The Guardian (Edward Greenfield), 25th July 1991

Maw's Trio is a work of huge confidence, scope and scale, properly compared in the accompanying notes to Fauré in its ample melodic sweep. Indeed, has there been a finer piano trio since Shostakovich?...

'The Coull Quartet has brought into the world a work that will retain a place in the repertoire… a string quartet of exceptionally high quality … the motivation in an inspired surge...

'The Coull Quartet has brought into the world a work that will retain a place in the repertoire… a string quartet of exceptionally high quality … the motivation in an inspired surge...

'…one of the most rewarding additions to the medium in many a year … both the succinctness and logic of the writing have an almost Beethoven cut.' Daily Telegraph (Alan Blyth), 1...

'…one of the most rewarding additions to the medium in many a year … both the succinctness and logic of the writing have an almost Beethoven cut.' Daily Telegraph (Alan Blyth), 1...

Nicholas Maw’s Narration was commissioned by the BBC for the 2001 RNCM Manchester International Cello Festival. Having previously written solo works for violin, double bass and flute with a stro...

. . . a haunting chain of ideas, fugitive and nagging, subtly capturing the heightened reality of nocturnal musing. Anthony Payne, Daily Telegraph, 12 June 1982

A challenging Sonatina from 1957 in three short movements for Flute and Piano by Nicholas Maw.