Chester Music

Work for Clarinet, Trumpet, Violin, Cello, Piano and Percussion, composed in 1987 and revised in 1989.

Written for percussion and tape. The tape part is made by the percussionist prior to the performance. Commissioned by Frankfurt Ballet and first performed on 31st January 1997, at the Schauspielhaus,...

For Violin, Cello and Piano Duet. In the past composers wrote 'pieces' of music. More important pieces were called'works'. Nowadays, however, most composers write minutes. Phone up any professional c...

For Violin, Cello and Piano Duet. In the past composers wrote 'pieces' of music. More important pieces were called'works'. Nowadays, however, most composers write minutes. Phone up any professional c...

Kevin Volans ' Trumpet Vibe Cello Piano. Score and parts for the Trumpet, Vibraphone, Cello and Piano.

Kevin Volans' Turning Point was commissioned by the Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival. The first performance took place on 5 July 2013, given by Demarre McGill (flute), Ferdinand Stein...

Kevin Volans' Turning Point was commissioned by the Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival. The first performance took place on 5 July 2013, given by Demarre McGill (flute), Ferdinand Stein...

Kevin Volans ' Looping Point, for Large Ensemble (7 or more players), was first performed on 2 November 2012 in Dublin by Crash Ensemble.

Arranged for two harpsichords, viola da gamba and percussion, this work is written to be played in African tuning.

For Low Female Voice And Ensemble. This cycle of settings of poems by Paul Celan was written between May and July 1990 for Ute Lemper. The texts are taken from the following collections: 'Chanson eine...

Michael Nyman was inspired to write this single-movement piece Self Laudatory Hymn Of Inanna And Her Omnipotence in 1992 after having discovered the text in the library of a friend. The words belong t...

Written for soprano and ensemble (Eb clarinet, C clarinet, viola, cello, double bass) with text by Mozart.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat investigates the world of a person with visual agnosia such people 'see but do not see'. This Chamber Opera by Michael Nyman, with libretto by Oliver Sacks, Chri...

Miserere was written in 1989 for the soundtrack of the film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. It is a setting of the Latin text of Psalm 51. Originally scored for solo Treble and mixed Choir,...

Score for 'The Piano Sings'. Quoting Nyman: 'In writing for The Piano, I had to establish not only the usual repertoire of music for the film, but a specific repertoire of piano music that would have...

Arrangement for soprano saxophone and string quartet. Score and parts included. Premiere: 1991 Zurich. Shaping the Curve was composed for John Harle in 1990 and is based strictly on a sequence of four...

The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi was commissioned by the Santa Monica Museum of Arts as an original score for the installation The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi by MaryKelly. The words are used/reproduced...

The parts consist of Piano accompaniment, melody in C, melody in Eb and melody in Bb.

The parts consist of Piano accompaniment, melody in C, melody in Eb and melody in Bb.

Michael Nyman's Trumpet & String Quartet. Duration: 15 minutes.

Eos commissioned Nyman to write a score for the 10-minute silent film Manhatta, a Jazz Age piece lacing together images of inter-way Manhattan with the (projected) words of Walt Whitman. Originally s...