Partitions Michael Nyman pour chœur mixte

Composer's Notes: When I was asked to write a piece to celebrate the restoration of Michelangelo's Mosè, I returned to the paper written by Sigmund Freud on the sculpture which I had discovered by cha...

A setting of Psalm 51, originally written for the film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover.

Nyman's 2011 The Prologue to Dido and Aeneas is a prologue to Henry Purcell's opera on a libretto by Nahum Tate. The libretto is based on Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid. It recounts the love of Dido, Quee...

Out of the Ruins touches on Gregorian chant and sacred music of the Baroque. This is a slowly evolving requiem that draws on Armenian traditions with no hint of Nyman's signature propulsiverhythms. So...

Balancing The Books was commissioned by the swingle singers for the Bach 250th anniversary celebrations. The work uses material from the C sharp Major Preludes from Bach's two books of the 48 Preludes...

Work for SATB Choir a cappella, commissioned by Singcircle and composed in 1984.