Michael Nyman
British composer born 23 March 1944 in London.
Michael Laurence Nyman attended the Royal Academy of Music, and later King’s College, where he studied English baroque music with Thurston Dart, graduating in 1967. He subsequently embarked upon a succesful career as a music critic, writing on everything from The Beatles to Cornelius Cardew. In 1968, in an article for The Spectator, he was the first person to apply the term “minimalism” to music. Although his collected writings were published in 2013, his articles and reviews made up much of his landmark book Experimental Music. Cage and Beyond, published in 1974. Throughout the late-1960s and 1970s, Nyman performed with several iconic ensembles dedicated to the “new music” that he described in his book, including Cornelius Cardew’s Scratch Orchestra and Gavin Bryars’ Portsmouth Sinfonia, notably becoming acquainted with Brian Eno through the latter (who went on to author the preface of the reprint of Experimental Music). It was also at this time that he made his first forays into cinema, composing music for the short films of a certain Peter Greenaway.
In spite of his successes in the early-1970s, 1976 marked Nyman’s veritable debut as a musician, when composer Harrison Birtwistle (with whom he had already worked as librettist on the opera Down by the Greenwood Side in 1969) commissioned him to make arrangements of eighteenth-century Venetian songs for a production of Carlo Goldoni’s play, Il Campiello. This led to the birth of “The Ciampello Band,” renamed soon afterwards as “The Michael Nyman Band”. The group toured extensively over the coming decades, and collaborated with musicians working in a wide range of styles (from the Orquesta Andalusi de Tetouan to Evan Parker, from classical Indian musicians Rajan and Sajan Misra to Damon Albarn). Also in 1976, the record Decay Music, comprising two of Nyman’s works, was released on Eno’s label, Obscure. The album notably featured 1-100, a minimalist composition for piano lasting almost an hour, originally written for a film by Peter Greenaway.
Michael Nyman achieved broad acclaim for his score for Greenaway’s first feature film, “The Draughtsman’s Contract” (1982). The success of this film and the popularity of its soundtrack, inspired by the music of Purcell, not only solidified what was to become one of the most fruitful collaborations of all time between a composer and a filmmaker (the two would continue to work together until Prospero’s Books in 1991), but also marked the beginning of a period of intense activity for Nyman. In 1986, his first opera, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, adapted from the case study of the same name by neurologist Oliver Sacks, was premiered at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. From 1987 to 1989, he composed his first three string quartets, and in 1990, Six Celan Songs for singer Ute Lemper. A flood of commissions followed, giving rise to La Traversée de Paris (1989), for celebrations marking the bicentenary of the French Revolution; Musique à Grande Vitesse (1993), for the inauguration of the Paris-to-Lille TGV line; and works for choreographers Lucinda Childs, Siobhan Davies, and Karine Saporta, among others.
In 1993, the film “The Piano” by Jane Campion was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Films Festival; its soundtrack, composed by Nyman, became a global sensation, selling more than 3 million copies worldwide. He later drew upon material from that film score in The Piano Concerto, the first in a series of concertos also comprising Concerto for Trombone (1994), Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings (1995), Double Concerto for Saxophone, Cello and Orchestra (1995), and Violin Concerto (2003), premiered in Hamburg by Gidon Kremer. A highly sought-after film composer (notably collaborating with Patrice Leconte, Neil Jordan, Michael Winterbottom, Andrew Niccol, and Völker Schlöndorff), Nyman has also composed several operas. Following Facing Goya (2000), a residency with the Karlsuhe Badisches Staatstheaer in 2002 gave rise to Man and Boy: Dada (premiered in 2003), based on the life of Kurt Schwitters. In 2009, Nyman collaborated with visual artist and performer/composer of electronic music Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto) on Sparkie: Cage and Beyond, an experience which affirmed his interest in interdisciplinary forms (Nyman himself occasionally directs video/cinematic works). The 2010s saw the creation of further important multimedia works: NYman with a movie camera (2010), a multiscreen installation work; and War Work: 8 songs with Film (2014), composed for the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. Also in 2014, his Symphony No. 11 was premiered (the composer has stated his intention to compose seventeen symphonies). Since 2005, Nyman has directed his own recording label, MN Records, which has released more than 60 titles to date.
In 2008, he was made a Commander of the British Empire.
© Ircam-Centre Pompidou, 2020
By David Sanson
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La musique de Michael Nyman est sans doute, de tous les compositeurs contemporains, celle qui est la plus familière aux oreilles du « grand public ». Ce succès, il le doit avant tout aux partitions qu’il a composées pour le cinéma : pour les films de Peter Greenaway, avec lequel le lia un compagnonnage de près de 25 ans (et 13 films) ; et plus encore pour La Leçon depiano, qui valut à la réalisatrice Jane Campion la Palme d’or au Festival de Cannes en 1993, et dont la pièce phare semble être devenue, au même titre que leFür Elise de Beethoven, l’un des « standards » de tout apprenti pianiste. C’est peut-être de Philip Glass, autre compositeur à succès, que Michael Nyman se rapproche le plus. Non pas tant simplement en raison de cette prédilection pour la tonalité, la pulsation et la répétition finalement commune à beaucoup de ces héritiers de la « musique expérimentale » dont Nyman a été l’un des hérauts. Mais plutôt pour leur pratique assidue de la musique de films, conjuguée à un intérêt pour les genres canoniques (symphonie, concerto, quatuor à cordes, opéra…) ; pour leurs accointances respectives avec la musique populaire (autour notamment de la figure de Brian Eno) ; ou encore pour leur tendance à « recycler » leurs propres pièces. Au-delà de ces points communs, la trajectoire de Michael Nyman, comme sa manière de se situer dans la tradition européenne dont il descend, n’en demeure pas moins fortement singulière, qui se déploie entre deux pôles : une intime fréquentation des œuvres du passé et un intérêt sincère pour les musiques populaires et pour l’expérimentation. Le fait qu’elle ait débuté par un long (et fécond) parcours de critique musical et qu’elle se soit révélée par le biais du cinéma ajoute à la singularité d’une trajectoire qui incite à faire de Nyman le parangon du compositeur postmoderne.
Si elle reste problématique et difficile à circonscrire1, et si aucun compositeur ne s’en est revendiqué explicitement, la notion de postmodernisme semble en effet particulièrement opérante pour appréhender l’œuvre de Michael Nyman. Chez lui en effet, plus encore que chez un Glass, plus que chez un Arvo Pärt – avec qui il partage une même volonté de remonter aux sources préclassiques de la musique occidentale, mais chez lequel on ne trouve nulle trace de cette « ironie » et de cette dimension ludique qui sont l’un des traits saillants du postmodernisme –, se manifeste d’une part ce désir de « revisiter le passé » théorisé par Umberto Eco : l’intertextualité, notion éminemment postmoderne, est la caractéristique essentielle d’une œuvre qui s’appuie, selon les mots du compositeur lui-même, sur « la reconstruction, la rénovation, la renarration, le recentrement, la revitalisation, le réarrangement ou simplement la réécriture intégrale » de musiques préexistantes, qu’elles soient les œuvres de compositeurs du passé ou les siennes propres2. D’autre part, chez Nyman plus que chez quiconque également, les frontières entre high art et low art, entre « haute » et « basse » cultures, mais aussi celles qui séparent les disciplines – puisque le compositeur s’affirme de plus en plus lui-même, depuis les années 2010, en tant que cinéaste – semblent particulièrement poreuses.
Ce sont ces deux aspects qui seront ici successivement examinés plus en détails, non sans avoir évoqué au préalable les huit années durant lesquelles Nyman s’adonna presque exclusivement à son activité de critique : une période fondatrice en effet, qui, en l’amenant à se situer sur la scène musicale, va le mener à la composition. Et à une musique qui, si elle est repose sur des œuvres préexistantes, ne ressemble toutefois à aucune autre : car il y a bien un « style » Michael Nyman, certes fait d’emprunts, mais caractérisé surtout par un penchant pour la mélodie, par sa vitalité (poly)rythmique et son dynamisme quasi constant, et enfin, derrière son apparente linéarité et sa pulsation régulière, par de foisonnants changements d’accentuations, de textures et d’harmonie, parfois à la limite du kitsch. Conjugués à un amour des listes, des collections et des jeux conceptuels (autant de traits plutôt « modernistes ») et à un goût très sûr pour l’humour et l’ironie – Nyman a consacré un opéra au dadaïste Kurt Schwitters et une pièce à l’artiste Fluxus George Brecht –, ces éléments ont fini par former une sorte de minimalisme romantique3, ou de postminimalisme « avec tradition ».
Du critique musical au musicien
A l’instar des cinéastes français de la Nouvelle Vague, Michael Nyman a commencé par peaufiner son art en écrivant sur celui des autres. Après avoir étudié le piano et la composition – auprès d’Alan Bush, proche de Brecht, Eisler et Weill, admirateur de Hindemith et Chostakovitch, et dont les propres œuvres se réfèrent fréquemment aux structures formelles des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles – à la Royal Academy of Music, puis la musicologie au King’s College avec Thurston Dart, il ne se sent pas prêt à embrasser la carrière de compositeur. Après un premier article – au sujet de la Turangalîla-Symphonie de Messiaen, pour The Spectator –, il se lance dans une activité de critique musical qui va s’avérer des plus fécondes. Non seulement parce qu’elle fait de lui le premier à avoir appliqué (en 1968, au sujet du compositeur danois Henning Christiansen) le terme de « minimalisme » à la musique, ou le premier Européen à avoir interviewé Steve Reich (en 1970), mais surtout parce qu’elle va lui permettre de préciser ses positions, et sa situation sur cette scène musicale alors dominée par l’avant-garde darmstadtienne. Perplexe face au dogme et à la complexité sériels, il oppose aux « compositeurs d’art européen », représentés par les figures de Boulez et Stockhausen, les « expérimentateurs », plus ouverts par nature à des éléments exogènes à la tradition écrite occidentale, pour lesquels il va dès lors prendre fait et cause : dans le sillage de John Cage, ce sont par exemple La Monte Young aux Etats-Unis ou, au Royaume-Uni, Cornelius Cardew, dont l’œuvreThe Great Learning (1971) le marque à vie. Une musique qu’il juge à la fois plus généreuse, plus neuve et plus politique, qui envisage la musique en tant que phénomène « socialement construit » et remet en cause les conceptions instituées depuis le début XIXe siècle, à commencer par l’autonomisation de l’œuvre d’art, ce que Lydia Goehr a appelé le « paradigme beethovénien ». A ses débuts, Nyman était proche du New Music Manchester Group, fondé notamment par Harrison Birtwistle et Peter Maxwell Davies, tous deux d’ailleurs très enclins à la reprise et la paraphrase des musiques d’avant la Renaissance. Au début des années 1970, il va intégrer deux ensembles, le Scratch Orchestra de Cornelius Cardew et le Portsmouth Sinfonia de Gavin Bryars, au sein desquels il côtoie des musiciens tels que Christopher Hobbs, Howard Skempton ou Brian Eno, et surtout expérimente des manières inédites de jouer et de composer la musique, et de déjouer le mode de fonctionnement pyramidal de l’orchestre, le clivage entre musiciens professionnels et amateurs. À la même période, il expérimente également au synthétiseur et sur bandes magnétiques.
En 1974, un ouvrage, le passionnant Experimental Music4, viendra regrouper et synthétiser les réflexions de Michael Nyman. En 1980, ce dernier enfoncera le clou dans l’un de ses derniers articles, au titre sans appel : « Against Complexity in Music5 ». Il y oppose « d’un côté, une avant-garde dont la complexité intellectuelle de la musique s’appuie sur […] des techniques et des concepts de composition traditionnels et, de l’autre, la musique expérimentale, dans laquelle la franchise et l’absence de complexité apparentes dans la notation découlent de principes qui sont étrangers à la musique européenne, au moins depuis 1600. »
Cette activité critique constitue ainsi le passionnant et nécessaire « pré-texte » des œuvres à venir de Michael Nyman. La première parution discographique de ce dernier, 1-100, publié en 1976 sur le label Obscure dirigé par Brian Eno, semble d’ailleurs faire écho aux pièces expérimentales qu’il a défendues : c’est une partition de près d’une heure pour quatre pianistes jouant la même suite descendante de cent accords modulant suivant le système des tons voisins caractéristique de l’époque baroque, mais chacun à son rythme (chaque accord doit être joué lorsque la résonance du précédent s’est évanouie) ; le résultat est étrangement hypnotique, une musique de la stase dont l’effet évoque les pièces de Morton Feldman. 1-100 avait à l’origine été composé (mais non utilisé) pour le court-métrage du même titre d’un jeune cinéaste de deux ans son aîné, avec lequel Michael Nyman collaborait occasionnellement depuis 1966 : Peter Greenaway.
Un compositeur de l’intertextualité
L’année 1976 marque pour Michael Nyman, selon ses propres termes, l’année de sa « renaissance » en tant que compositeur. Cette année-là, il est en effet chargé par Harrison Birtwistle, alors directeur musical du National Theater, de composer des arrangements de chants populaires vénitiens pour la pièce Il Ciampello de Carlo Goldoni. Ce travail va susciter la création d’un ensemble, le Ciampello Band, bientôt rebaptisé le Michael Nyman Band, mêlant instruments anciens (rebec, sacqueboute, chalumeau) et moderne (banjo, saxophone), avec lequel le compositeur va pouvoir s’adonner à de multiples expérimentations. La première composition « originale » qu’il réalise pour cette formation,In Re Don Giovanni, a valeur de manifeste : cette petite pièce d’à peine trois minutes repose sur une séquence de 15 mesures de l’Air du Catalogue du Don Giovanni de Mozart, reprise à un tempo enlevé et dans une optique presque « pop », rappelant les arrangements de Wendy Carlos pour le film Orange mécanique de Stanley Kubrick. La même année, The Otherwise Very Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz (1976) reprend un procédé cumulatif déjà expérimenté par Frederic Rzewski pour sa pièce Les Moutons de Panurge (1969), en l’appliquant aux 32 premières mesures du Beau Danube bleu de Johann Strauss. En 1981, Five Orchestral Pieces for Opus Tree revisite la musique composée par Nyman pour le court métrage Tree de Peter Greenaway (1966), et basée sur les Cinq Pièces pour orchestre op. 10 d’Anton Webern. L’année suivante enfin, le premier long métrage de Greenaway, The Draughtman’s Contract (Meurtre dans un jardin anglais) révélera Michael Nyman au grand public. Mettant à profit ses recherches musicologiques de la fin des années 1960, autour notamment des archives de Purcell et de Haendel, le compositeur prend appui sur les basses obstinées de l’époque baroque (Henry Purcell, mais aussi Philippe van Wicchel) pour les traiter suivant une optique « minimaliste » et quasi « pop » : « Les basses obstinées sont les mieux adaptées aux structures harmoniques susceptibles d’être répétées à l’infini, variables, recyclables et empilables sur lesquelles je travaille habituellement**», explique-t-il dans le livret du CD.
Nyman reviendra régulièrement à la musique baroque : Purcell pour la musique du film Le Cuisinier, le voleur, sa femme et son amant de Greenaway (1989) ou pour son Concerto pour trombone (1995), Biber pour Monsieur Hire de Patrice Leconte (1989), John Bull pour son Quatuor à cordes n° 1 (1985). Mais, on l’a vu, les musiques des siècles suivants l’inspirent tout autant : Chopin (combiné à des airs folkloriques écossais) pour La Leçon de piano, Brahms (Monsieur Hire encore), Schönberg (Quatuor n° 1)… L’œuvre de Mozart, enfin, servira de matériau pour plusieurs œuvres. On citera en particulier la musique de Drowning by Numbers de Peter Greenaway (1988), entièrement dérivée de l’Andante de la Symphonie concertante K 364, et notamment le morceau d’ouverture, Trysting Fields (pour lequel Nyman a relevé toutes les appoggiatures de la partition, chacune étant successivement répétée trois fois). La Symphonie concertante avait déjà été utilisée pour la musique du film The Falls de Peter Greenaway (1979) : là, Michael Nyman avait prélevé la suite de cinq accords des mesures 58 à 62 qui, ainsi isolés, prennent, selon ses propres termes, une coloration presque « doo-wop »…
Ce dernier exemple illustre bien la manière dont Michael Nyman use de la musique du passé. Le plus souvent, il isole un motif, un « échantillon », un fragment dont il dégage une particularité (la symétrie, le staccato…) et qu’il transforme en une boucle dont la répétition en ostinato, tout en conservant son assise tonale, transforme peu à peu le matériau et la syntaxe originels, par le biais des changements et des décalages rythmiques, des métamorphoses texturales ou harmoniques. Derrière son apparente simplicité, la musique de Nyman met en jeu une grande hétérogénéité de techniques compositionnelles. Les emprunts tiennent tantôt de l’intégration, tantôt de la confrontation, mais ils peuvent également revêtir une signification « dramaturgique » et non plus seulement structurelle : que l’on songe au lied de Schumann Ich grolle nicht , repris dans l’opéra L’Homme qui prenait sa femme pour un chapeau, inspiré au livre éponyme du neurologie Oliver Sacks, dont Nyman déconstruit progressivement les relations tonales pour épouser la désagrégation psychique du protagoniste. Nyman procède d’une manière également métaphorique dans son opéra Love Counts (2005) avec les 371 chorals de J. S. Bach harmonisés par Riemenschneider, les fragmentant, les accélérant, les ralentissant, les superposant afin de traduire la psychologie de son héroïne. On peut encore songer à la manière dont il utilise, dans sa pièce multimédia War Work: 8 Songs with Film (2014), les pièces de Gibbons, Bull, Chopin, Franck ou Schubert pour mettre en musique des poèmes de guerre.
Quoi qu’il en soit, on est ici loin des procédés de citation et de collage employés par certains compositeurs des années 1960 (Berio, Schnittke, le Pärt de la première période), loin également des pastiches « néoclassicisants ». Certains ont vu dans la musique de Nyman une manière de combiner des éléments de logique structurelle modernistes à une liberté « postmoderne », aux acquis de Cage, du minimalisme et de la British Expérimental Music (Nyman est bel et bien un homme du paradoxe, ou du syncrétisme). Mais c’est aussi une manière, pour ce compositeur qui déclarait un jour : « Toutes mes impulsions et mes idées musicales me sont venus de la tradition symphonique européenne6 », d’affirmer son héritage. Selon Jean-Pierre Dambricourt, la musique de Michael Nyman « fait de ses modèles les signifiants d’un objet perdu dont elle met en scène tout à la fois le désir et le deuil », elle « prend acte, non sans nostalgie, de l’éloignement irrémédiable de tout référentiel stable », parmi lesquels le « sens de l’histoire7 ». Une analyse qui fait écho à celle de Maarten Beirens, selon lequel son œuvre peut être lue comme « un Who’s who de l’histoire de la musique occidentale », comme « un dialogue continuel avec l’histoire de la musique » par lequel Nyman affirme son identité et ses racines européennes, son lien avec la tradition8. On songe à cette scène de l’opéra télévisé Letters, Riddles and Writs (1991), ouvrage loufoque autant que programmatique composé pour le bicentenaire de la mort de Mozart (incarné par la mezzo-soprano Ute Lemper) : un buste de Mozart répond au musicologue Hans Georg Nägeli (1773-1836), qui venait de faire allusion aux principes de Carl Czerny : « Ce qu’a fait M. Nyman, c’est tout simplement projeter ces modèles deux cents ans dans l’avenir. » Les emprunts de Michael Nyman sont ainsi une manière, en isolant certains détails inédits, voire anodins, d’éclairer la musique du passé sous un jour nouveau, et de revendiquer sa place dans cette lignée.
Il faut souligner que cette intertextualité concerne également les propres œuvres de Michael Nyman, très souvent dérivées d’œuvres antérieures. La Leçon de piano fournira par exemple la matière de son Concerto pour piano (1994). Plusieurs pièces de La Traversée de Paris – ample partition composée en 1989 pour une exposition à la Grande Arche de La Défense commémorant le bicentenaire de la Révolution française – seront reprises en 1991 pour la musique du film Prospero’s Books et pour Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs, opéra-ballet inspiré, comme le film de Greenaway, deLa Tempêtede Shakespeare, créé avec la chorégraphe Karine Saporta. L’opéra Facing Goya (2000) découle deVital Statistics, autre opéra de 1987 autour de la question de la physiognomonie. La Symphonie n° 11 «**Hillsborough Memorial » (2014), composée en hommage aux 96 personnes tuées dans la catastrophe du stade d’Hillsborough à Sheffield en 1999, reprend Memorial, marche funèbre écrite par Nyman en 1985 suite à la tragédie du stade du Heysel à Bruxelles… L’œuvre de Nyman est un éternel processus de reprise et de dérivation, où rares sont les partitions authentiquement autonomes – c’est le cas du Quatuor à cordes n° 5 (2011), le premier à ne pas reposer sur un matériau musical préexistant. Nyman est bien ce « gardien des choses oubliées » dont parle Robert Worby dans l’avant-propos du livre de Pwyll ap Siôn.
Michael Nyman, artiste pop
Si aujourd’hui les passerelles semblent de plus en plus nombreuses entre musiques savante et populaire, il faut par ailleurs rendre grâce à Michael Nyman d’avoir été l’un des premiers à manifester une authentique sensibilité pour la seconde. A cet égard, le fait d’avoir choisi le qualificatif de « Band » pour nommer son ensemble paraît révélateur. Produit par David Cunningham pour son label Piano Records, l’album Michael Nyman, paru en 1981, second disque enregistré avec le Michael Nyman Band, est l’exemple le plus manifeste de la sensibilité pop de ce compositeur dont l’inspiration mélodique et le sens du « groove » font ici merveille. On y trouve entre autres plusieurs pièces composées pour des films de Peter Greenaway, en particulier Bird List Song (accompagnant en 1980 le faux documentaire The Falls), aux allures de tube rock : ce titre sera d’ailleurs repris l’année suivante, sous le titre Hands 2 Take, par les Flying Lizards, groupe de pop conceptuelle fondé par Cunningham, où évoluent des musiciens phares de la scène expérimentale britannique tels que Steve Beresford ou David Toop. On y retrouve également In Re Don Giovanni : une pièce dont l’idée était venue à Nyman en jouant au piano l’Air du Catalogue de Don Giovanni « à la manière de Jerry Lee Lewis » ; une pièce qui avait à l’origine – fait rarissime dans le cas d’un compositeur « savant » – été publiée sous forme de 45 tours, par le très branché label bruxellois Les Disques du Crépuscule, incluant en phase B un détournement de Webern. Sur cet album figurent également certaines figures phares de la scène free jazz, comme les saxophonistes Peter Brötzmann et Evan Parker… Il n’est guère étonnant que les premiers fans de Michael Nyman aient été issus, plutôt que des cercles classiques, de la mouvance new-wave et expérimentale qui se développait à l’époque. En 2004, Nyman dédiera d’ailleurs son trio avec piano The Photography of Chance à la mémoire de John Peel, mythique animateur de la BBC qui fut l’un des grands passeurs de la new-wave.
De manière générale, la sensibilité pop de Michael Nyman se retrouve dans l’usage récurrent de la basse électrique, qui transfigure la musique de Meurtre dans un jardin anglais tout autant que celle de La Traversée de Paris, ou encore le recours à l’amplification (pour ses trois premiers Quatuors à cordes notamment). Tout naturellement, il a collaboré régulièrement avec des musiciens issus de la scène « pop » au sens le plus large du terme, de Damon Albarn à Alva Noto en passant par Sting, mais aussi avec de nombreux artistes des musiques traditionnelles de tous les continents. Le folklore roumain – qu’il avait passé une année à étudier et collecter, en 1965 – irrigue par exemple plusieurs de ses pièces, notamment ses Quatuors n° 1 et n° 3 (1990), ou encore la bande originale de A Zed & Two**Noughtsde Greenaway (1985). Mais c’est le cas aussi des musiques traditionnelles indiennes, qui lui inspireront son*Quatuor n° 2(1988) autant que Three Ways of Describing Rain (avec les chanteurs Rajan et Sajan Mishra,* 2003). Si le terme n’était aujourd’hui si galvaudé, Nyman pourrait bien être l’un des pères du « crossover ».
Epilogue : un musicien cinéaste
Et si, après avoir composé sur des images (façon de parler, puisque s’agissant de Greenaway en tout cas, il a toujours conçu sa musique sans avoir rien vu du film concerné), Nyman était en train de devenir un compositeur d’images ? Lui qui, au sujet de La Leçon de piano, disait avoir voulu créer une « scénographie acoustique » laisse de plus en plus s’épanouir en effet, depuis les années 2010 – et notamment le film NYman with a Movie Camera, en référence à L’Homme à la caméra, révolutionnaire film muet de Dziga Vertov (1929), pour lequel il avait déjà en 2002 composé une bande-son –, ses talents de cinéaste, de photographe, de collecteur d’images d’archives et de monteur, au fil d’installations multimédia associant musique et images de sa composition, et intégrant toujours de nombreuses citations cinématographiques. Au sujet de War Work: 8 Songs with Film, qui en 2014 associait images d’archives (toujours les « objets trouvés », les ready-made), vidéos de son cru et musique, Michael Nyman déclarait en 2017 : « Après avoir terminé War Work, je me suis dit : si je meurs, c’est de ça que j’aimerais que les gens se souviennent. Je crois avoir écrit ma plus grande œuvre9. »
« Rien de ce que je fais en tant que compositeur ne me semble aussi excitant que trouver et capturer – et surtout monter mes films. Je crois que c’est la chose la plus créative que je fais », ajoutait le musicien, qui au siècle dernier citait l’opéra comme sa forme d’élection, et qui semble avoir trouvé dans cette sorte d’art total matière à régénérer complètement son art. Au printemps 2020, à Berlin, n’était la pandémie du Covid-19 et les annulations qu’elle a occasionnées, il aurait dû présenter son travail cinématographique, et notamment For John, Merce & Tacita From Michael, où Michael Nyman se filme (et se met en abîme) en train d’explorer, le lendemain de la mort de Merce Cunningham, une installation multi-écrans de la plasticienne Tacita Dean dans laquelle celle-ci dirige le danseur et chorégraphe dans une interprétation du*4’33’’* de John Cage… Et si, en fin de compte, c’était en termes cinématographiques qu’il convenait d’appréhender la musique de Michael Nyman – comme un art du cadrage (attirant l’attention sur des fragments, des détails de la mémoire musicale européenne), du mouvement et, surtout, du montage ?
- A ce sujet, on se reportera à « Y a-t-il un postmodernisme musical ? », leçon prononcée par Karol Beffa – selon qui Michael Nyman est « à classer résolument parmi les postmodernes » – au Collège de France en 2016, et librement accessible en ligne : https://books.openedition.org/cdf/4131?lang=fr . Voir également Jonathan D. Kramer, « The Nature and Origins of Musical Postmodernism », in Current Musicology n° 66, New York, Columbia University, 1999.
- L’intertextualité est au centre de l’ouvrage du musicologue gallois Pwyll ap Siôn, à ce jour l’unique monographie consacrée au compositeur : Pwyll ap Siôn, The Music of Michael Nyman: Texts, Contexts and Intertexts, Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, 2007.
- Pour reprendre le titre de la thèse de Michael O’Shaughnessy, « Romantic Minimalist**»: meaning and emotion in the film music of Michael Nyman, The University of Western Australia, 2010, cité in Keith Potter, Kyle Gann (éd.),The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music, Routledge, 2013, p. 192.
- Michael Nyman, Experimental Music, Cage et au-delà, traduit de l’anglais par Nathalie Gentili, Paris, Allia, 2005.
- Pwyll ap Siôn (éd.), Michael Nyman, Collected Writings, Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.
- Cité par Pwyll ap Siôn, ibid.
- Jean-Pierre Dambricourt, 1998 : « L’épuisement de la musique/La saturation des pseudo-universaux dans les œuvres de Michael Nyman », in Costin Miereanu & Xavier Hascher (dir.), Les universaux en musique, Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris, 1998, pp. 307-321.
- Maartejn Beirens, The Identity of European Minimal Music, these de doctorat, Université de Louvain, Belgique, 2005, cité in Pwyll ap Siôn, The Music of Michael Nyman: Texts, Contexts and Intertexts, op. cit., p. xvi.
- Michael Nyman, entretien avec Chris Meigh-Andrews, mai 2017, consultable en ligne : https://www.meigh-andrews.com/writings/interviews/michael-nyman
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- Solo (excluding voice)
- Four Ostinatos for bass clarinet (1979), 20 mn, Chester Music
- Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds (from The Draughtsman's Contract) for piano (1982), 5 mn, Chester Music
- Time Lapse (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for piano (1985), 4 mn, Chester Music
- Zoo Caprices for violin (1985), 27 mn, Chester Music
- Fly Drive (from Carrington) for piano (1987), 2 mn, Chester Music
- Sheep 'n' Tides (from Drowning By Numbers) for piano (1988), 2 mn, Chester Music
- The Convertibility of Lute Strings for harpsichord (1992), 17 mn, Chester Music
- The Promise / The Heart Asks Pleasure First (from The Piano) for piano (1992), 3 mn, Chester Music
- All Imperfect Things (from The Piano) for piano (1993), 4 mn, Chester Music
- Big My Secret (from The Piano) for piano (1993), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Deep Sleep Playing (from The Piano) for piano (1993), 2 mn, Chester Music
- Here To There (from The Piano) for piano (1993), 60 s, Chester Music
- Lost and Found (from The Piano) for piano (1993), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Silver-Fingered Fling (The Piano) for piano (1993), 3 mn, Chester Music
- The Attraction of the Pedalling Ankle (from The Piano) for piano (1993), Chester Music
- The Embrace (from The Piano) for piano (1993), 3 mn, Chester Music
- The Mood that Passes Through You (The Piano) for piano (1993), 60 s, Chester Music
- Yamamoto Perpetuo for violin (1993), 46 mn, Chester Music
- Tango for Tim for harpsichord (1994), 5 mn, Chester Music
- Candlefire for piano (1995), Chester Music
- Chatterbox Waltz for piano (1995), Chester Music
- Goodbye Moortie for piano (1995), Chester Music
- If (The Diary of Anne Frank) for piano (1995), Chester Music
- The Schoolroom (from The Diary of Anne Frank) for piano (1995), Chester Music
- Elisabeth Gets Her Way for harpsichord (1996), Chester Music
- Digital Tragedy (from Enemy Zero) for piano (1997), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Love (from Enemy Zero) for piano (1997), 4 mn, Chester Music
- Franklyn for piano (1999), Chester Music
- Jack for piano (1999), Chester Music
- Odessa Beach for piano (1999), Chester Music
- Fourths, Mostly for organ (2001), 10 mn, Chester Music
- The Exchange for piano (2001), Chester Music
- Why? for piano (2002), Chester Music
- Manhatta for bass clarinet (2003), 10 mn, Chester Music
- elec Flicker stage music for guitar and electronics (2004), 25 mn, Chester Music
- Goldberg Shuffle for piano (2013), 45 mn, Chester Music
- Two Sonnets for Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz for piano (2014), 8 mn, Chester Music
- Neat Slice of Tango for piano (2019), 12 mn, Chester Music
- Chamber music
- 1-100 for 4 to 6 pianos (1976), Chester Music
- A Neat Slice of Saraband for clarinet, trombone, piano and cello (1980), 4 mn, Chester Music
- elec Two violins (1981), 19 mn, Chester Music
- Real Slow Drag for saxophone quartet (1982), 15 mn, Chester Music
- elec I'll Stake My Cremona to a Jew's Trump for electronically modified violin and viola (1983), 12 mn, Chester Music
- Angelfish Decay (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for harpsichord and two violins (1985), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Child's Play for two violins and harpsichord (1985), 21 mn, Chester Music
- Child's Play for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello (1985), 14 mn, Chester Music
- Portraits In Reflection (Childs Play) stage music for two violins and harpsichord (1985), 21 mn, Chester Music
- String Quartet No. 1 (1985), 27 mn, Chester Music
- Water Dances for two pianos (1985), 32 mn, Chester Music
- Water Dances for two pianos (1985), 32 mn, Chester Music
- Touch the Earth stage music for violin and viola (1987), 25 mn, Chester Music
- String Quartet No. 2 (1988), 22 mn, Chester Music
- Miserere Paraphrase (from The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for violin and piano (1989), 6 mn, Chester Music
- Shaping the Curve for soprano saxophone and piano (1990), Chester Music
- String Quartet No. 3 (1990), 16 mn, Chester Music
- Flugelhorn and Piano (1991), 10 mn, Chester Music
- In Re Don Giovanni for String Quartet (1991), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Masque Aryas for brass quintet (1991), 12 mn, Chester Music
- Ariel Songs (from Prospero's Books) Version 2 for string quartet (1992), Chester Music
- Ariel Songs (from Prospero's Books) Version 3 for soprano saxophone and piano (1992), Chester Music
- Time Will Pronounce for piano, violin and cello (1992), 20 mn, Chester Music
- On the Fiddle for violin and piano (1993), 15 mn, Chester Music
- Songs for Tony for saxophone quartet (1993), 10 mn, Chester Music
- Miserere Paraphrase (from The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for soprano saxophone and piano (1994), 6 mn, Chester Music
- If (from the Diary of Anne Frank) for soprano saxophone and piano (1995), 5 mn, Chester Music
- If (The Diary of Anne Frank) for soprano saxophone and piano (1995), 5 mn, Chester Music
- String Quartet No. 4 (1995), 40 mn, Chester Music
- Viola and Piano (1995), Chester Music
- Strange Attractors stage music for string quartet and piano (1999), 25 mn, Chester Music
- elec Beckham Crosses, Nyman Scores for string quartet and tape (2002), 10 mn, Chester Music
- Mapping for string quartet (2002), 8 mn, Chester Music
- Yellow Beach for piano, violin and cello (2002), 7 mn, Chester Music
- 24 Hour Sax Quartet for saxophone quartet (2004), 7 mn, Chester Music
- In Re Don Giovanni for String Quintet (2004), Chester Music
- The Photography of Chance full version for piano, violin and cello (2004), 20 mn, Chester Music
- Revisiting the Don version for string quintet (2005), 5 mn, Chester Music
- Tango (from 'Never Forever') for string quartet (2006), 4 mn, Chester Music
- The Photography of Chance for piano, violin and cello (2006), 10 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- Love Always Counts for flute, clarinet, vibraphone, piano, violin and cello (2007), 4 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- Taking it as Read for violin and piano (2007), 5 mn, Chester Music
- From String Quartet No.2 for saxophone quartet (2008), 22 mn, Chester Music
- String Quartet No.3 arrangement for saxophone quartet (2008), 10 mn, Chester Music
- Viola and Piano ensemble version (2009), 14 mn, Chester Music
- Poczatek for piano, violin and cello (2010), 15 mn, Chester Music
- String Quartet No. 5 'Let's not make a song and dance out of it' (2011, 2012), 15 mn, Chester Music
- Four pieces from 'the Piano' arranged for Piano Trio (2012), Chester Music
- Trumpet & String Quartet (2013), 15 mn, Chester Music
- Chromattic for alto saxophone, accordion, marimba and double bass (2015), 13 mn, Chester Music
- Empresa Cines Merida for piano, two violins, viola and cello (2015), 3 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- When Ingrid Met Capa for string quartet (2019), 10 mn 23 s, Chester Music
- Instrumental ensemble music
- Symphony No. 7: Something Connected With Energy for orchestra (), 20 mn, Chester Music
- In Re Don Giovanni for orchestra (1977), 4 mn, Chester Music
- In Re Don Giovanni for large ensemble (1977), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Bird List for ensemble (1979), 4 mn, Chester Music
- Masterwork Samples for the Michael Nyman Band (1979), Chester Music
- The Masterwork/Award-Winning Fishknife for ensemble (1979), Chester Music
- Five Orchestral Pieces Opus Tree for large ensemble (1981), 14 mn, Chester Music
- M-Work for large ensemble (1981), 30 mn, Chester Music
- Think Slow, Act Fast for ensemble (1981), 16 mn, Chester Music
- A Watery Death (The Draughtsman's Contract) for large ensemble (1982), 4 mn, Chester Music
- An Eye for Optical Theory (from The Draughtsman's Contract) for saxophone ensemble, piano and electric bass (1982), 4 mn, Chester Music
- An Eye for Optical Theory (The Draughtsman's Contract) for large ensemble (1982), 5 mn, Chester Music
- Bravura in the Face of Grief (The Draughtsman's Contract) for large ensemble (1982), 12 mn, Chester Music
- Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds (The Draughtsman's Contract) for large ensemble (1982), 5 mn, Chester Music
- Queen of the Night (from The Draughtsman's Contract) for saxophone ensemble, piano and electric bass (1982), 7 mn, Chester Music
- Queen of the Night (The Draughtsman's Contract) for large group (1982), 6 mn, Chester Music
- The Disposition of the Linen (The Draughtsman's Contract) for large ensemble (1982), 5 mn, Chester Music
- A Wild and Distant Shore (The Piano) for large ensemble (1983), 6 mn, Chester Music
- Ballet Mécanique for ensemble (1983), Chester Music
- Basic Black stage music for ensemble (1984), 22 mn, Chester Music
- Bird Work for large ensemble (1984), 9 mn, Chester Music
- Water Dances for the Michael Nyman Band (1984), Chester Music
- Water Dances for the Michael Nyman Band (1984), Chester Music
- Angelfish Decay (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for large ensemble (1985), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Bisocosis Populi (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for large ensemble (1985), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Car Crash (A Zed and Two Noughts) for large ensemble (1985), 4 mn, Chester Music
- Delft Waltz (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for large ensemble (1985), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Lady in the Red Hat (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for large ensemble (1985), 4 mn, Chester Music
- Memorial for orchestra (1985), 11 mn, Chester Music
- Prawn Watching (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for large ensemble (1985), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Swan Rot (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for large ensemble (1985), 3 mn, Chester Music
- The Diary of Anne Frank Suite for orchestra (1985), 21 mn, Chester Music
- Time Lapse (A Zed and Two Noughts) for ensemble (1985), 4 mn, Chester Music
- Up for Grabs (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for ensemble (1985), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Venus de Milo (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for ensemble (1985), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Vermeer's Wife (A Zed and Two Noughts) for ensemble (1985), 3 mn, Chester Music
- And Do They Do for large ensemble (1986), 21 mn, Chester Music
- Song 1 (from And Do They Do) for saxophone ensemble, piano and electric bass (1986), 5 mn, Chester Music
- Song 2 (from And Do They Do) for saxophone ensemble, piano and electric bass (1986), 5 mn, Chester Music
- Song 4 (from And Do They Do) for saxophone ensemble, piano and electric bass (1986), 5 mn, Chester Music
- Outside Looking In (from Carrington) for saxophone ensemble and electric bass (1987), 12 mn, Chester Music
- Outside Looking In (from Carrington) for the Michael Nyman Band (1987), 12 mn, Chester Music
- Plotting for the Shopkeeper (from The Draughtsman's Contract) for saxophone ensemble, piano and electric bass (1987), 9 mn, Chester Music
- The Infinite Complexities of Christmas (from Carrington) for saxophone ensemble, piano and electric bass (1987), 4 mn, Chester Music
- Bees in Trees (from Drowning by Numbers) for large ensemble (1988), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Crematorium Conspiracy (from Drowning by Numbers) for large ensemble (1988), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Dead Man's Catch (from Drowning by Numbers) for large ensemble (1988), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Drowning by Number 2 (from Drowning by Numbers) for large group (1988), 6 mn, Chester Music
- Drowning by Number 3 (from Drowning by Numbers) for large group (1988), 4 mn, Chester Music
- Endgame (from Drowning by Numbers) for large ensemble (1988), 8 mn, Chester Music
- Fish Beach (from Drowning by Numbers) for large ensemble (1988), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Great Death Game (from Drowning by Numbers) for large group (1988), 2 mn, Chester Music
- Knowing the Ropes (from Drowning by Numbers) for large ensemble (1988), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Sheep and Tides (from Drowning by Numbers) for large ensemble (1988), 2 mn, Chester Music
- Trysting Fields (Drowning by Numbers) for ensemble (1988), 4 mn, Chester Music
- Wedding Tango (from Drowning by Numbers) for ensemble (1988), 4 mn, Chester Music
- Wheelbarrow Walk (Drowning by Numbers) for ensemble (1988), 2 mn, Chester Music
- Book Depository (from The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for large ensemble (1989), 6 mn, Chester Music
- Coupling (from The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for large ensemble (1989), 5 mn, Chester Music
- De l'Hôtel de Ville à la Concorde (from La Traversée de Paris) for saxophone ensemble, piano and electric bass (1989), 6 mn, Chester Music
- Le Palais Royal (from La Traversée de Paris) for saxophone ensemble, piano and electric bass (1989), 6 mn, Chester Music
- Le Palais Royal (from La Traversée de Paris) for the Michael Nyman Band (1989), 6 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- The Fall of Icarus for large ensemble (1989), 1 h 30 mn, Chester Music
- Caliban's Pit (from Prospero's Books) for large ensemble (1990), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Cornfield (from Prospero's Books) for large ensemble (1990), 7 mn, Chester Music
- Miranda (Prospero's Books) for large ensemble (1990), 4 mn, Chester Music
- Prospero's Curse (Prospero's Books) for large ensemble (1990), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Prospero's Magic (Prospero's Books) for large ensemble (1990), Chester Music
- Reconciliation (from Prospero's Books) for large ensemble (1990), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Twelve Years Since (from Prospero's Books) for ensemble (1990), 3 mn, Chester Music
- For John Cage for brass ensemble (1992), 15 mn, Chester Music
- The Final Score for large ensemble (1992), 30 mn, Chester Music
- The Garden is Becoming a Robe Room (The Draughtsman's Contract) for the Michael Nyman Band (1992), 6 mn 5 s, Chester Music
- The Promise / The Heart Asks Pleasure First (The Piano) for ensemble (1992), 3 mn, Chester Music
- The Upside-Down Violin for ensemble and the Orquestra Andaluzi de Tetouan (1992), 15 mn, Chester Music
- A Wild and Distant Shore (The Piano) for large ensemble (1993), Chester Music
- All Imperfect Things (The Piano) for large ensemble (1993), Chester Music
- Dreams of a Journey (The Piano) for large ensemble (1993), Chester Music
- Here To There (from The Piano) for saxophone ensemble, piano and electric bass (1993), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Here To There (The Piano) for large ensemble (1993), Chester Music
- Lost and Found (The Piano) for large ensemble (1993), Chester Music
- MGV (Musique à Grande Vitesse) for two orchestras (1993), 29 mn, Chester Music
- The Embrace (The Piano) for large ensemble (1993), 3 mn, Chester Music
- The Wounded (The Piano) for ensemble (1993), 3 mn, Chester Music
- To the Edge of the Earth (The Piano) for ensemble (1993), 4 mn, Chester Music
- Concert Suite from Prospero's Books (1994), 25 mn, Chester Music
- Three Quartets for ensemble (1994), 14 mn, Chester Music
- H.R.T. for small ensemble (1995), 18 mn, Chester Music
- If (from the Diary of Anne Frank) for small ensemble (1995), 5 mn, Chester Music
- The Piano for strings (1995), 15 mn, Chester Music
- Why (from the Diary of Anne Frank) for small ensemble (1995), 5 mn, Chester Music
- AET (After Extra Time) for large ensemble (1996), 20 mn, Chester Music
- Gattaca: Suite for orchestra (1997), 17 mn, Chester Music
- Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks for orchestra (1997), 17 mn, Chester Music
- De Granada A La Luna for large ensemble (1998), 6 mn, Chester Music
- Orfeu for large ensemble (1998), Chester Music
- Self Laudatory Hymn of Inanna and Her Omnipotence for ensemble (1998), 18 mn, Chester Music
- End of the Affair Suite arrangement for orchestra (1999), 6 mn, Chester Music
- The Commissar Vanishes for large ensemble (1999), 45 mn, Chester Music
- a dance he little thinks of for orchestra (2001), 15 mn, Chester Music
- Free for All for brass ensemble (2001), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Man with a Movie Camera for large ensemble (2001), 60 mn, Chester Music
- The Draughtsman's Contract for orchestra (2001), 16 mn, Chester Music
- elec Dance of the Engines for orchestra and tape (2002), 9 mn, Chester Music
- Zeit und Ziel 1814-2002 for ensemble (2002), 7 mn, Chester Music
- Compiling the Colours (Samhitha) for large ensemble (2003), 30 mn, Chester Music
- Gattaca for orchestra (2003), 17 mn, Chester Music
- The Claim for Orchestra for orchestra (2003), 16 mn, Chester Music
- The Piano: Concert Suite for orchestra (2003), 20 mn, Chester Music
- stage Exit, No Exit stage music for ensemble (2005), 25 mn, Chester Music
- Melody Waves for orchestra (2005), 25 mn, Chester Music
- Revisiting the Don for ensemble (2005), 5 mn, Chester Music
- The Piano: Concert Suite (MNB version) for the Michael Nyman Band, as well as four violins, two violas and two cellos (2005), Chester Music
- I was a Total Virgin for ensemble (2006), 32 mn, Chester Music
- 50,000 pairs of feet can't be wrong for large ensemble (2007), 28 mn, Chester Music
- I Sonetti Lussuriosi for soprano and ensemble (2007), 30 mn, Chester Music
- Man With A Movie Camera orchestral version (2007), 60 mn, Chester Music
- The Libertine for orchestra (2007), 25 mn, Chester Music
- Something Connected With Energy for ensemble (2008), 48 mn, Chester Music
- A Great Day in Kathmandu for ensemble (2009), 2 mn 41 s, Chester Music
- Banjo & Matilda for ensemble (2009), Chester Music
- City of Turin for ensemble (2009), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Fever Sticks and Bones for ensemble (2009), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Friendly Fire for ensemble (2009), 2 mn 29 s, Chester Music
- Going to America for ensemble (2009), 3 mn 5 s, Chester Music
- In Laos for ensemble (2009), 6 mn 29 s, Chester Music
- In Rai Don Giovanni for ensemble (2009), 2 mn 39 s, Chester Music
- Secrets, Accusations and Charges for ensemble (2009), 3 mn 33 s, Chester Music
- The Glare for ensemble (2009), 2 mn 42 s, Chester Music
- The Musicologist Scores for ensemble (2009), 18 mn, Chester Music
- The Sixth Part of the World for large ensemble (2009), Chester Music
- Underneath the Hessian Bags for ensemble (2009), 2 mn 43 s, Chester Music
- Dreams for orchestra (2010), 1 h 30 mn, Chester Music
- NYman with a Movie Camera for the Michael Nyman Band (2010), Chester Music
- Devoción for orchestra (2012), 20 mn, Chester Music
- Symphony No 2 for large orchestra (2013), 26 mn, Chester Music
- Symphony No 5 for orchestra (2013), 20 mn, Chester Music
- Symphony No 6 for large orchestra (2013), 32 mn, Chester Music
- Symphony No. 8: Water Dances for orchestra (2013), 20 mn, Chester Music
- Water Dances for orchestra (2013), 18 mn, Chester Music
- Symphony No 12 for orchestra (2014), 20 mn, Chester Music
- Symphony No 3 "Symphony of sexual songs” for large orchestra (2014), 24 mn, Chester Music
- Symphony No 4 for orchestra (2015), 25 mn, Chester Music
- As You Watch The Athletes Score for large ensemble (2016), 19 mn, Chester Music
- Concertant music
- Miserere Paraphrase (from The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for piano and string quartet (1991), 6 mn, Chester Music
- Shaping the Curve for soprano saxophone and string quartet (1991), 11 mn, Chester Music
- Where the Bee Dances concerto for soprano saxophone and orchestra (1991), 21 mn, Chester Music
- Trysting Fields (from Drowning by Numbers) string version (1992), 6 mn, Chester Music
- Lost and Found (from The Piano) for soprano saxophone and strings (1993), 3 mn, Chester Music
- On the Fiddle for violin or cello and strings (1993), 15 mn, Chester Music
- The Piano Concerto (1993), 32 mn, Chester Music
- The Piano Concerto version for two pianos (1993), 32 mn, Chester Music
- Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings (1995), 22 mn, Chester Music
- Concerto for Trombone (1995), 22 mn, Chester Music
- Self Laudatory Hymn of Inanna and Her Omnipotence concertante version (1995), 18 mn, Chester Music
- Abel Carries Ephraim (from 'The Ogre') for cornet or horn and brass ensemble (1996), 5 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- Abel's Revolt (from 'The Ogre') for cornet, horn and brass ensemble (1996), 3 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- Child Bearer (from 'The Ogre') for horn, cornets and brass ensemble (1996), 3 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- Knights at School for horn, cornet and brass ensemble (1996), 7 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- Magic Forest, Into the Woods, Goering's Hunting Party (from 'The Ogre') for horn, cornet and brass ensemble (1996), 5 mn, Chester Music
- Masuria / Abel's List / Beware The Ogre (from 'The Ogre') for horn, cornet and brass ensemble (1996), 7 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- Meeting the Moose (from 'The Ogre') for horn, cornet and brass ensemble (1996), 5 mn, Chester Music
- Double Concerto for Saxophone, Cello and Orchestra (1997), 27 mn, Chester Music
- Drowning by Numbers for violin or viola and chamber orchestra (1998), 20 mn, Chester Music
- Drowning by Numbers for chamber orchestra (1998), 20 mn, Chester Music
- Sangam : The Meeting Point for mandolin and the Michael Nyman Band (2002), 1 h 30 mn, Chester Music
- Manhatta for large ensemble (2003), Chester Music
- Violin Concerto (2003), 25 mn, Chester Music
- My Lord All-Pride (from 'The Libertine) for horn, cornet and brass ensemble (2005), 2 mn, Chester Music
- Satire Against Mankind (from 'The Libertine') for horn, cornet and brass ensemble (2005), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Satire Against Reason (from 'The Libertine') for horn, cornet and brass ensemble (2005), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Signor D (from 'The Libertine') for horn, cornet and brass ensemble (2005), 2 mn, Chester Music
- The Mistress (from 'The Libertine') for horn, cornets and brass ensemble (2005), 10 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- Upon nothing (from 'The Libertine') for horn, cornet and brass ensemble (2005), 1 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- gdm concerto for marimba and orchestra (2006), 27 mn, Chester Music
- Cello Concerto: A New Pavan For These Sad, Distracted Times (2007), 29 mn, Chester Music
- Chasing Sheep is Best left to Shepherds for horn, cornet and brass ensemble (2007), 5 mn, Chester Music
- Piano Concerto No.2 (2007), 21 mn, Chester Music
- Violin Concerto No. 2 (2007), 20 mn, Chester Music
- For Ennio for cello and strings (2008), 5 mn 20 s, Chester Music
- Kino for three accordionists and the Michael Nyman Band (2009), Chester Music
- Concerto for Flute and Strings (2010), 17 mn, Chester Music
- Through the Only Window for piano and string quartet (2012), 27 mn, Chester Music
- Flute Concerto No. 2 (2019), 11 mn, Chester Music
- Vocal music and instrument(s)
- Bird List Song for soprano and large ensemble (1979), Chester Music
- Bird Anthem for choir and large ensemble (1981), 4 mn, Chester Music
- Love is Certainly, at Least Alphabetically Speaking for soprano and large ensemble (1983), 6 mn, Chester Music
- L'Escargot (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for soprano and large ensemble (1985), 6 mn, Chester Music
- stage The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat stage music for three voices and ensemble (1986), 1 h 10 mn, Chester Music
- L'Orgie Parisienne for soprano and the Michael Nyman Band (1989), 7 mn, Chester Music
- La Traversée de Paris for soprano and large ensemble (1989), Chester Music
- Memorial (The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for soprano and large ensemble (1989), 12 mn, Chester Music
- Miserere (from The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for soprano, choir and large ensemble (1989), 12 mn, Chester Music
- Miserere (from The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for soprano, mixed choir and orchestra (1989), 12 mn, Chester Music
- Miserere (from The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for soprano and string quartet (1989), Chester Music
- Polish Love Song for soprano and six instruments (1990), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Six Celan Songs for contralto and large ensemble (1990), 33 mn, Chester Music
- Six Celan Songs for viola and piano (1990), 33 mn, Chester Music
- The Masque (from Prospero's Books) for soprano, contralto and ensemble (1990), 12 mn, Chester Music
- Full Fathom Five (from Ariel Songs) for soprano, female choir and bass (1991), Chester Music
- I am an Unusual Thing (from Letters, Riddles & Writs) for contralto and large ensemble (1991), 5 mn, Chester Music
- I am an Unusual Thing (from Letters, Riddles & Writs) for contralto and piano (1991), 5 mn, Chester Music
- stage Letters, Riddles and Writs stage music for three voices and ensemble (1991), 30 mn, Chester Music
- Anne de Lucy Songs for soprano and piano (1992), 10 mn, Chester Music
- Ariel Songs (from Prospero's Books) Version 1 for soprano and piano (1992), 9 mn, Chester Music
- Miserere Paraphrase (from The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for soprano and large ensemble (1992), 6 mn, Chester Music
- Mozart on Mortality for soprano and six instruments (1992), 5 mn, Chester Music
- Self Laudatory Hymn of Inanna and Her Omnipotence for countertenor and viols (1992), 18 mn, Chester Music
- stage Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs stage music for three voices and ensemble (1994), 1 h 30 mn, Chester Music
- The Piano Sings (from The Piano) for soprano and string quartet (1994), Chester Music
- To Morrow for soprano and organ (1994), 10 mn, Chester Music
- Grounded for mezzo-soprano and ensemble (1995), 4 mn, Chester Music
- If (from The Diary of Anne Frank) for contralto and ensemble (1995), 5 mn, Chester Music
- The Waltz Song for voices in unison and piano (1995), 4 mn, Chester Music
- Why (from The Diary of Anne Frank) (1995), 5 mn, Chester Music
- Titch for voice and piano (1997), 5 mn, Chester Music
- Cycle of Disquietude (Coisas, Vozes, Lettras) for soprano, contralto and ensemble (1998), 60 mn, Chester Music
- stage Facing Goya stage music for four voices and orchestra (2000), 2 h 30 mn, Chester Music
- Mosè for mixed choir and string quartet (2001), 19 mn, Chester Music
- The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi for soprano and string quartet (2001), 19 mn, Chester Music
- The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi for soprano and string quartet (2001), 19 mn, Chester Music
- A Child's View of Colour for children's voices and string quintet (2003), 8 mn, Chester Music
- stage Man and Boy: Dada stage music for four voices and ensemble (2003), 1 h 40 mn, Chester Music
- Manhatta for soprano and bass clarinet (2003), 10 mn, Chester Music
- Three Ways of Describing Rain (Sawan; Rang; Dhyan) written for the voices of Rajan and Sajan Misra and the Michael Nyman Band (2003), 30 mn, Chester Music
- Acts of Beauty for soprano and ensemble (2004), 32 mn, Chester Music
- stage Love Counts stage music for two voices and ensemble (2005), 1 h 40 mn, Chester Music
- That's the Lover for voice and small ensemble (2006), 4 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- A handshake in the dark for choir and orchestra (2007), 30 mn, Chester Music
- A handshake in the dark (King's Singer's version) for choir and piano (2007), Chester Music
- I Sonetti Lussuriosi for soprano and orchestra (2007), 30 mn, Chester Music
- I Sonetti Lussuriosi for soprano and orchestra (2007), 30 mn, Chester Music
- I Sonetti Lussuriosi arrangement by Anthony Hinnigan, for piano quintet and voice (2007), 30 mn, Chester Music
- I Sonetti Lussuriosi for piano quintet and voice, arrangement by Anthony Hinnigan (2007), 30 mn, Chester Music
- Ombra mai fu for countertenor and orchestra (2009), 4 mn, Chester Music
- Take the Money and Run for voice and ensemble (2009), 3 mn 13 s, Chester Music
- Body Parts Songs for tenor and piano (2010), Chester Music
- Body Parts Songs for soprano and ensemble (2010), Chester Music
- Milton Songs for voice(s) and the Michael Nyman Band (2010), Chester Music
- Doing the Rounds for voices and orchestra (2011), 25 mn, Chester Music
- On Languard Point for soprano and the Michael Nyman Band (2011), 20 mn, Chester Music
- Symphony No 11: Hillsborough Memorial for soprano, children's choir and orchestra (2014), 42 mn, Chester Music
- War Work: 8 Songs with Film for contralto and the Michael Nyman Band (2014), Chester Music
- No Time In Eternity for countertenor and viol (2016), 11 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- A cappella vocal music
- A Neat Slice of Time for a cappella choir (1980), Chester Music
- The Abbess of Andouillets for a cappella choir (1984), 9 mn, Chester Music
- Miserere (from The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for a cappella choir (1989), 12 mn, Chester Music
- Out of the Ruins for a cappella choir (1989), 21 mn, Chester Music
- Balancing the Books for a cappella choir (1999), 12 mn, Chester Music
- For Kiyan Prince for a cappella choir (2006), 3 mn, Chester Music
- Two Sonnets for Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz for a cappella choir (2014), 8 mn, Chester Music
- Electronic music / fixed media / mechanical musical instruments
- elec Electra Perpetrator stage music for CD (2008), 1 h 15 mn, Chester Music
- Unspecified instrumentation
- Miniatures/Configurations (String Quartet No. 2) stage music for three or four dancers (1989), 22 mn, Chester Music
- The Princess of Milan stage music (1990), Chester Music
- stage Prologue to Dido & Aeneas by Henry Purcell (2011), 48 mn, Chester Music
Catalog sources and details
Compositions pour le cinéma (publiées chez Chester)
- A Walk through H (Peter Greenaway, 1977)
- Vertical Features Remake (Peter Greenaway, 1978)
- The Falls (Peter Greenaway, 1980)
- The Draughtman’s Contract (Peter Greenaway, 1982)
- Frozen Music (Michael Eaton, 1983)
- I’ll stake my cremona to a Jew’s Trump (Sara Jolly, 1983)
- Nelly’s Version (Maurice Hatton, 1983)
- A Zed and Two Naughts (Peter Greenaway, 1985)
- The Disputation (Geoff Sax, 1986)
- Drowning by Numbers (Peter Greenaway, 1988)
- Death in the Seine (Peter Greenaway, 1989)
- Out of the Ruins (Agnieszka Piotrowska, 1989)
- The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover (Peter Greenaway, 1989)
- Men of Steel (Agnieszka Piotrowska, 1990)
- Prospero’s books (Peter Greenaway, 1991)
- The Piano (Jane Campion, 1992)
- The Fall of Icarus (Jacques Bourton, Thomas De Norre, 1992)
- The Final Score (Matthew Whiteman, 1992)
- A la Folie (Six days, six nights) (1994)
- Carrington (Christopher Hampton, 1994)
- The Diary of Anne Frank (Akinori Nagaoka, 1995)
- Enemy Zero (Kenji Eno, 1996)
- The Ogre (Volker Schlöndorff, 1996)
- Wonderland (Michael Winterbottom, 1999)
- Act without words (Karel Reisz, 2000)
- The Claim (Michael Winterbottom, 2001)
- 24 heures de la vie d’une femme (Laurent Bouhnik, 2002)
- The Actors (Connor McPherson, 2002)
- The Libertine (Laurence Dunmore, 2005)
- The Eleventh Year (Dziga Vertov, 2009)
- Battleship Potemkin (Dziga Vertov, 2011)
- 2019
- Flute Concerto No. 2, 11 mn, Chester Music
- Neat Slice of Tango for piano, 12 mn, Chester Music
- When Ingrid Met Capa for string quartet, 10 mn 23 s, Chester Music
- 2016
- As You Watch The Athletes Score for large ensemble, 19 mn, Chester Music
- No Time In Eternity for countertenor and viol, 11 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- 2015
- Chromattic for alto saxophone, accordion, marimba and double bass, 13 mn, Chester Music
- Empresa Cines Merida for piano, two violins, viola and cello, 3 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- Symphony No 4 for orchestra, 25 mn, Chester Music
- 2014
- Symphony No 11: Hillsborough Memorial for soprano, children's choir and orchestra, 42 mn, Chester Music
- Symphony No 12 for orchestra, 20 mn, Chester Music
- Symphony No 3 "Symphony of sexual songs” for large orchestra, 24 mn, Chester Music
- Two Sonnets for Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz for piano, 8 mn, Chester Music
- Two Sonnets for Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz for a cappella choir, 8 mn, Chester Music
- War Work: 8 Songs with Film for contralto and the Michael Nyman Band, Chester Music
- 2013
- Goldberg Shuffle for piano, 45 mn, Chester Music
- Symphony No 2 for large orchestra, 26 mn, Chester Music
- Symphony No 5 for orchestra, 20 mn, Chester Music
- Symphony No 6 for large orchestra, 32 mn, Chester Music
- Symphony No. 8: Water Dances for orchestra, 20 mn, Chester Music
- Trumpet & String Quartet, 15 mn, Chester Music
- Water Dances for orchestra, 18 mn, Chester Music
- 2012
- Devoción for orchestra, 20 mn, Chester Music
- Four pieces from 'the Piano' arranged for Piano Trio, Chester Music
- Through the Only Window for piano and string quartet, 27 mn, Chester Music
- 2011
- Doing the Rounds for voices and orchestra, 25 mn, Chester Music
- On Languard Point for soprano and the Michael Nyman Band, 20 mn, Chester Music
- stage Prologue to Dido & Aeneas by Henry Purcell, 48 mn, Chester Music
- String Quartet No. 5 'Let's not make a song and dance out of it', 15 mn, Chester Music
- 2010
- Body Parts Songs for tenor and piano, Chester Music
- Body Parts Songs for soprano and ensemble, Chester Music
- Concerto for Flute and Strings, 17 mn, Chester Music
- Dreams for orchestra, 1 h 30 mn, Chester Music
- Milton Songs for voice(s) and the Michael Nyman Band, Chester Music
- NYman with a Movie Camera for the Michael Nyman Band, Chester Music
- Poczatek for piano, violin and cello, 15 mn, Chester Music
- 2009
- A Great Day in Kathmandu for ensemble, 2 mn 41 s, Chester Music
- Banjo & Matilda for ensemble, Chester Music
- City of Turin for ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Fever Sticks and Bones for ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Friendly Fire for ensemble, 2 mn 29 s, Chester Music
- Going to America for ensemble, 3 mn 5 s, Chester Music
- In Laos for ensemble, 6 mn 29 s, Chester Music
- In Rai Don Giovanni for ensemble, 2 mn 39 s, Chester Music
- Kino for three accordionists and the Michael Nyman Band, Chester Music
- Ombra mai fu for countertenor and orchestra, 4 mn, Chester Music
- Secrets, Accusations and Charges for ensemble, 3 mn 33 s, Chester Music
- Take the Money and Run for voice and ensemble, 3 mn 13 s, Chester Music
- The Glare for ensemble, 2 mn 42 s, Chester Music
- The Musicologist Scores for ensemble, 18 mn, Chester Music
- The Sixth Part of the World for large ensemble, Chester Music
- Underneath the Hessian Bags for ensemble, 2 mn 43 s, Chester Music
- Viola and Piano ensemble version, 14 mn, Chester Music
- 2008
- elec Electra Perpetrator stage music for CD, 1 h 15 mn, Chester Music
- For Ennio for cello and strings, 5 mn 20 s, Chester Music
- From String Quartet No.2 for saxophone quartet, 22 mn, Chester Music
- Something Connected With Energy for ensemble, 48 mn, Chester Music
- String Quartet No.3 arrangement for saxophone quartet, 10 mn, Chester Music
- 2007
- 50,000 pairs of feet can't be wrong for large ensemble, 28 mn, Chester Music
- A handshake in the dark for choir and orchestra, 30 mn, Chester Music
- A handshake in the dark (King's Singer's version) for choir and piano, Chester Music
- Cello Concerto: A New Pavan For These Sad, Distracted Times, 29 mn, Chester Music
- Chasing Sheep is Best left to Shepherds for horn, cornet and brass ensemble, 5 mn, Chester Music
- I Sonetti Lussuriosi for soprano and ensemble, 30 mn, Chester Music
- I Sonetti Lussuriosi for soprano and orchestra, 30 mn, Chester Music
- I Sonetti Lussuriosi for soprano and orchestra, 30 mn, Chester Music
- I Sonetti Lussuriosi arrangement by Anthony Hinnigan, for piano quintet and voice, 30 mn, Chester Music
- I Sonetti Lussuriosi for piano quintet and voice, arrangement by Anthony Hinnigan, 30 mn, Chester Music
- Love Always Counts for flute, clarinet, vibraphone, piano, violin and cello, 4 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- Man With A Movie Camera orchestral version, 60 mn, Chester Music
- Piano Concerto No.2, 21 mn, Chester Music
- Taking it as Read for violin and piano, 5 mn, Chester Music
- The Libertine for orchestra, 25 mn, Chester Music
- Violin Concerto No. 2, 20 mn, Chester Music
- 2006
- For Kiyan Prince for a cappella choir, 3 mn, Chester Music
- I was a Total Virgin for ensemble, 32 mn, Chester Music
- Tango (from 'Never Forever') for string quartet, 4 mn, Chester Music
- That's the Lover for voice and small ensemble, 4 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- The Photography of Chance for piano, violin and cello, 10 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- gdm concerto for marimba and orchestra, 27 mn, Chester Music
- 2005
- stage Exit, No Exit stage music for ensemble, 25 mn, Chester Music
- stage Love Counts stage music for two voices and ensemble, 1 h 40 mn, Chester Music
- Melody Waves for orchestra, 25 mn, Chester Music
- My Lord All-Pride (from 'The Libertine) for horn, cornet and brass ensemble, 2 mn, Chester Music
- Revisiting the Don version for string quintet, 5 mn, Chester Music
- Revisiting the Don for ensemble, 5 mn, Chester Music
- Satire Against Mankind (from 'The Libertine') for horn, cornet and brass ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Satire Against Reason (from 'The Libertine') for horn, cornet and brass ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Signor D (from 'The Libertine') for horn, cornet and brass ensemble, 2 mn, Chester Music
- The Mistress (from 'The Libertine') for horn, cornets and brass ensemble, 10 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- The Piano: Concert Suite (MNB version) for the Michael Nyman Band, as well as four violins, two violas and two cellos, Chester Music
- Upon nothing (from 'The Libertine') for horn, cornet and brass ensemble, 1 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- 2004
- 24 Hour Sax Quartet for saxophone quartet, 7 mn, Chester Music
- Acts of Beauty for soprano and ensemble, 32 mn, Chester Music
- elec Flicker stage music for guitar and electronics, 25 mn, Chester Music
- In Re Don Giovanni for String Quintet, Chester Music
- The Photography of Chance full version for piano, violin and cello, 20 mn, Chester Music
- 2003
- A Child's View of Colour for children's voices and string quintet, 8 mn, Chester Music
- Compiling the Colours (Samhitha) for large ensemble, 30 mn, Chester Music
- Gattaca for orchestra, 17 mn, Chester Music
- stage Man and Boy: Dada stage music for four voices and ensemble, 1 h 40 mn, Chester Music
- Manhatta for bass clarinet, 10 mn, Chester Music
- Manhatta for large ensemble, Chester Music
- Manhatta for soprano and bass clarinet, 10 mn, Chester Music
- The Claim for Orchestra for orchestra, 16 mn, Chester Music
- The Piano: Concert Suite for orchestra, 20 mn, Chester Music
- Three Ways of Describing Rain (Sawan; Rang; Dhyan) written for the voices of Rajan and Sajan Misra and the Michael Nyman Band, 30 mn, Chester Music
- Violin Concerto, 25 mn, Chester Music
- 2002
- elec Beckham Crosses, Nyman Scores for string quartet and tape, 10 mn, Chester Music
- elec Dance of the Engines for orchestra and tape, 9 mn, Chester Music
- Mapping for string quartet, 8 mn, Chester Music
- Sangam : The Meeting Point for mandolin and the Michael Nyman Band, 1 h 30 mn, Chester Music
- Why? for piano, Chester Music
- Yellow Beach for piano, violin and cello, 7 mn, Chester Music
- Zeit und Ziel 1814-2002 for ensemble, 7 mn, Chester Music
- 2001
- Fourths, Mostly for organ, 10 mn, Chester Music
- Free for All for brass ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Man with a Movie Camera for large ensemble, 60 mn, Chester Music
- Mosè for mixed choir and string quartet, 19 mn, Chester Music
- The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi for soprano and string quartet, 19 mn, Chester Music
- The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi for soprano and string quartet, 19 mn, Chester Music
- The Draughtsman's Contract for orchestra, 16 mn, Chester Music
- The Exchange for piano, Chester Music
- a dance he little thinks of for orchestra, 15 mn, Chester Music
- 2000
- stage Facing Goya stage music for four voices and orchestra, 2 h 30 mn, Chester Music
- 1999
- Balancing the Books for a cappella choir, 12 mn, Chester Music
- End of the Affair Suite arrangement for orchestra, 6 mn, Chester Music
- Franklyn for piano, Chester Music
- Jack for piano, Chester Music
- Odessa Beach for piano, Chester Music
- Strange Attractors stage music for string quartet and piano, 25 mn, Chester Music
- The Commissar Vanishes for large ensemble, 45 mn, Chester Music
- 1998
- Cycle of Disquietude (Coisas, Vozes, Lettras) for soprano, contralto and ensemble, 60 mn, Chester Music
- De Granada A La Luna for large ensemble, 6 mn, Chester Music
- Drowning by Numbers for violin or viola and chamber orchestra, 20 mn, Chester Music
- Drowning by Numbers for chamber orchestra, 20 mn, Chester Music
- Orfeu for large ensemble, Chester Music
- Self Laudatory Hymn of Inanna and Her Omnipotence for ensemble, 18 mn, Chester Music
- 1997
- Digital Tragedy (from Enemy Zero) for piano, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Double Concerto for Saxophone, Cello and Orchestra, 27 mn, Chester Music
- Gattaca: Suite for orchestra, 17 mn, Chester Music
- Love (from Enemy Zero) for piano, 4 mn, Chester Music
- Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks for orchestra, 17 mn, Chester Music
- Titch for voice and piano, 5 mn, Chester Music
- 1996
- AET (After Extra Time) for large ensemble, 20 mn, Chester Music
- Abel Carries Ephraim (from 'The Ogre') for cornet or horn and brass ensemble, 5 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- Abel's Revolt (from 'The Ogre') for cornet, horn and brass ensemble, 3 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- Child Bearer (from 'The Ogre') for horn, cornets and brass ensemble, 3 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- Elisabeth Gets Her Way for harpsichord, Chester Music
- Knights at School for horn, cornet and brass ensemble, 7 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- Magic Forest, Into the Woods, Goering's Hunting Party (from 'The Ogre') for horn, cornet and brass ensemble, 5 mn, Chester Music
- Masuria / Abel's List / Beware The Ogre (from 'The Ogre') for horn, cornet and brass ensemble, 7 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- Meeting the Moose (from 'The Ogre') for horn, cornet and brass ensemble, 5 mn, Chester Music
- 1995
- Candlefire for piano, Chester Music
- Chatterbox Waltz for piano, Chester Music
- Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings, 22 mn, Chester Music
- Concerto for Trombone, 22 mn, Chester Music
- Goodbye Moortie for piano, Chester Music
- Grounded for mezzo-soprano and ensemble, 4 mn, Chester Music
- H.R.T. for small ensemble, 18 mn, Chester Music
- If (The Diary of Anne Frank) for piano, Chester Music
- If (The Diary of Anne Frank) for soprano saxophone and piano, 5 mn, Chester Music
- If (from The Diary of Anne Frank) for contralto and ensemble, 5 mn, Chester Music
- If (from the Diary of Anne Frank) for soprano saxophone and piano, 5 mn, Chester Music
- If (from the Diary of Anne Frank) for small ensemble, 5 mn, Chester Music
- Self Laudatory Hymn of Inanna and Her Omnipotence concertante version, 18 mn, Chester Music
- String Quartet No. 4, 40 mn, Chester Music
- The Piano for strings, 15 mn, Chester Music
- The Schoolroom (from The Diary of Anne Frank) for piano, Chester Music
- The Waltz Song for voices in unison and piano, 4 mn, Chester Music
- Viola and Piano, Chester Music
- Why (from The Diary of Anne Frank), 5 mn, Chester Music
- Why (from the Diary of Anne Frank) for small ensemble, 5 mn, Chester Music
- 1994
- Concert Suite from Prospero's Books, 25 mn, Chester Music
- Miserere Paraphrase (from The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for soprano saxophone and piano, 6 mn, Chester Music
- stage Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs stage music for three voices and ensemble, 1 h 30 mn, Chester Music
- Tango for Tim for harpsichord, 5 mn, Chester Music
- The Piano Sings (from The Piano) for soprano and string quartet, Chester Music
- Three Quartets for ensemble, 14 mn, Chester Music
- To Morrow for soprano and organ, 10 mn, Chester Music
- 1993
- A Wild and Distant Shore (The Piano) for large ensemble, Chester Music
- All Imperfect Things (The Piano) for large ensemble, Chester Music
- All Imperfect Things (from The Piano) for piano, 4 mn, Chester Music
- Big My Secret (from The Piano) for piano, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Deep Sleep Playing (from The Piano) for piano, 2 mn, Chester Music
- Dreams of a Journey (The Piano) for large ensemble, Chester Music
- Here To There (The Piano) for large ensemble, Chester Music
- Here To There (from The Piano) for piano, 60 s, Chester Music
- Here To There (from The Piano) for saxophone ensemble, piano and electric bass, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Lost and Found (The Piano) for large ensemble, Chester Music
- Lost and Found (from The Piano) for piano, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Lost and Found (from The Piano) for soprano saxophone and strings, 3 mn, Chester Music
- MGV (Musique à Grande Vitesse) for two orchestras, 29 mn, Chester Music
- On the Fiddle for violin and piano, 15 mn, Chester Music
- On the Fiddle for violin or cello and strings, 15 mn, Chester Music
- Silver-Fingered Fling (The Piano) for piano, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Songs for Tony for saxophone quartet, 10 mn, Chester Music
- The Attraction of the Pedalling Ankle (from The Piano) for piano, Chester Music
- The Embrace (The Piano) for large ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- The Embrace (from The Piano) for piano, 3 mn, Chester Music
- The Mood that Passes Through You (The Piano) for piano, 60 s, Chester Music
- The Piano Concerto, 32 mn, Chester Music
- The Piano Concerto version for two pianos, 32 mn, Chester Music
- The Wounded (The Piano) for ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- To the Edge of the Earth (The Piano) for ensemble, 4 mn, Chester Music
- Yamamoto Perpetuo for violin, 46 mn, Chester Music
- 1992
- Anne de Lucy Songs for soprano and piano, 10 mn, Chester Music
- Ariel Songs (from Prospero's Books) Version 1 for soprano and piano, 9 mn, Chester Music
- Ariel Songs (from Prospero's Books) Version 2 for string quartet, Chester Music
- Ariel Songs (from Prospero's Books) Version 3 for soprano saxophone and piano, Chester Music
- For John Cage for brass ensemble, 15 mn, Chester Music
- Miserere Paraphrase (from The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for soprano and large ensemble, 6 mn, Chester Music
- Mozart on Mortality for soprano and six instruments, 5 mn, Chester Music
- Self Laudatory Hymn of Inanna and Her Omnipotence for countertenor and viols, 18 mn, Chester Music
- The Convertibility of Lute Strings for harpsichord, 17 mn, Chester Music
- The Final Score for large ensemble, 30 mn, Chester Music
- The Garden is Becoming a Robe Room (The Draughtsman's Contract) for the Michael Nyman Band, 6 mn 5 s, Chester Music
- The Promise / The Heart Asks Pleasure First (The Piano) for ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- The Promise / The Heart Asks Pleasure First (from The Piano) for piano, 3 mn, Chester Music
- The Upside-Down Violin for ensemble and the Orquestra Andaluzi de Tetouan, 15 mn, Chester Music
- Time Will Pronounce for piano, violin and cello, 20 mn, Chester Music
- Trysting Fields (from Drowning by Numbers) string version, 6 mn, Chester Music
- 1991
- Flugelhorn and Piano, 10 mn, Chester Music
- Full Fathom Five (from Ariel Songs) for soprano, female choir and bass, Chester Music
- I am an Unusual Thing (from Letters, Riddles & Writs) for contralto and large ensemble, 5 mn, Chester Music
- I am an Unusual Thing (from Letters, Riddles & Writs) for contralto and piano, 5 mn, Chester Music
- In Re Don Giovanni for String Quartet, 3 mn, Chester Music
- stage Letters, Riddles and Writs stage music for three voices and ensemble, 30 mn, Chester Music
- Masque Aryas for brass quintet, 12 mn, Chester Music
- Miserere Paraphrase (from The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for piano and string quartet, 6 mn, Chester Music
- Shaping the Curve for soprano saxophone and string quartet, 11 mn, Chester Music
- Where the Bee Dances concerto for soprano saxophone and orchestra, 21 mn, Chester Music
- 1990
- Caliban's Pit (from Prospero's Books) for large ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Cornfield (from Prospero's Books) for large ensemble, 7 mn, Chester Music
- Miranda (Prospero's Books) for large ensemble, 4 mn, Chester Music
- Polish Love Song for soprano and six instruments, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Prospero's Curse (Prospero's Books) for large ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Prospero's Magic (Prospero's Books) for large ensemble, Chester Music
- Reconciliation (from Prospero's Books) for large ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Shaping the Curve for soprano saxophone and piano, Chester Music
- Six Celan Songs for contralto and large ensemble, 33 mn, Chester Music
- Six Celan Songs for viola and piano, 33 mn, Chester Music
- String Quartet No. 3, 16 mn, Chester Music
- The Masque (from Prospero's Books) for soprano, contralto and ensemble, 12 mn, Chester Music
- The Princess of Milan stage music, Chester Music
- Twelve Years Since (from Prospero's Books) for ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- 1989
- Book Depository (from The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for large ensemble, 6 mn, Chester Music
- Coupling (from The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for large ensemble, 5 mn, Chester Music
- De l'Hôtel de Ville à la Concorde (from La Traversée de Paris) for saxophone ensemble, piano and electric bass, 6 mn, Chester Music
- L'Orgie Parisienne for soprano and the Michael Nyman Band, 7 mn, Chester Music
- La Traversée de Paris for soprano and large ensemble, Chester Music
- Le Palais Royal (from La Traversée de Paris) for saxophone ensemble, piano and electric bass, 6 mn, Chester Music
- Le Palais Royal (from La Traversée de Paris) for the Michael Nyman Band, 6 mn 30 s, Chester Music
- Memorial (The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for soprano and large ensemble, 12 mn, Chester Music
- Miniatures/Configurations (String Quartet No. 2) stage music for three or four dancers, 22 mn, Chester Music
- Miserere (from The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for soprano, choir and large ensemble, 12 mn, Chester Music
- Miserere (from The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for soprano, mixed choir and orchestra, 12 mn, Chester Music
- Miserere (from The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for soprano and string quartet, Chester Music
- Miserere (from The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for a cappella choir, 12 mn, Chester Music
- Miserere Paraphrase (from The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) for violin and piano, 6 mn, Chester Music
- Out of the Ruins for a cappella choir, 21 mn, Chester Music
- The Fall of Icarus for large ensemble, 1 h 30 mn, Chester Music
- 1988
- Bees in Trees (from Drowning by Numbers) for large ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Crematorium Conspiracy (from Drowning by Numbers) for large ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Dead Man's Catch (from Drowning by Numbers) for large ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Drowning by Number 2 (from Drowning by Numbers) for large group, 6 mn, Chester Music
- Drowning by Number 3 (from Drowning by Numbers) for large group, 4 mn, Chester Music
- Endgame (from Drowning by Numbers) for large ensemble, 8 mn, Chester Music
- Fish Beach (from Drowning by Numbers) for large ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Great Death Game (from Drowning by Numbers) for large group, 2 mn, Chester Music
- Knowing the Ropes (from Drowning by Numbers) for large ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Sheep 'n' Tides (from Drowning By Numbers) for piano, 2 mn, Chester Music
- Sheep and Tides (from Drowning by Numbers) for large ensemble, 2 mn, Chester Music
- String Quartet No. 2, 22 mn, Chester Music
- Trysting Fields (Drowning by Numbers) for ensemble, 4 mn, Chester Music
- Wedding Tango (from Drowning by Numbers) for ensemble, 4 mn, Chester Music
- Wheelbarrow Walk (Drowning by Numbers) for ensemble, 2 mn, Chester Music
- 1987
- Fly Drive (from Carrington) for piano, 2 mn, Chester Music
- Outside Looking In (from Carrington) for saxophone ensemble and electric bass, 12 mn, Chester Music
- Outside Looking In (from Carrington) for the Michael Nyman Band, 12 mn, Chester Music
- Plotting for the Shopkeeper (from The Draughtsman's Contract) for saxophone ensemble, piano and electric bass, 9 mn, Chester Music
- The Infinite Complexities of Christmas (from Carrington) for saxophone ensemble, piano and electric bass, 4 mn, Chester Music
- Touch the Earth stage music for violin and viola, 25 mn, Chester Music
- 1986
- And Do They Do for large ensemble, 21 mn, Chester Music
- Song 1 (from And Do They Do) for saxophone ensemble, piano and electric bass, 5 mn, Chester Music
- Song 2 (from And Do They Do) for saxophone ensemble, piano and electric bass, 5 mn, Chester Music
- Song 4 (from And Do They Do) for saxophone ensemble, piano and electric bass, 5 mn, Chester Music
- stage The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat stage music for three voices and ensemble, 1 h 10 mn, Chester Music
- 1985
- Angelfish Decay (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for harpsichord and two violins, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Angelfish Decay (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for large ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Bisocosis Populi (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for large ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Car Crash (A Zed and Two Noughts) for large ensemble, 4 mn, Chester Music
- Child's Play for two violins and harpsichord, 21 mn, Chester Music
- Child's Play for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello, 14 mn, Chester Music
- Delft Waltz (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for large ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- L'Escargot (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for soprano and large ensemble, 6 mn, Chester Music
- Lady in the Red Hat (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for large ensemble, 4 mn, Chester Music
- Memorial for orchestra, 11 mn, Chester Music
- Portraits In Reflection (Childs Play) stage music for two violins and harpsichord, 21 mn, Chester Music
- Prawn Watching (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for large ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- String Quartet No. 1, 27 mn, Chester Music
- Swan Rot (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for large ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- The Diary of Anne Frank Suite for orchestra, 21 mn, Chester Music
- Time Lapse (A Zed and Two Noughts) for ensemble, 4 mn, Chester Music
- Time Lapse (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for piano, 4 mn, Chester Music
- Up for Grabs (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Venus de Milo (from A Zed and Two Noughts) for ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Vermeer's Wife (A Zed and Two Noughts) for ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- Water Dances for two pianos, 32 mn, Chester Music
- Water Dances for two pianos, 32 mn, Chester Music
- Zoo Caprices for violin, 27 mn, Chester Music
- 1984
- Basic Black stage music for ensemble, 22 mn, Chester Music
- Bird Work for large ensemble, 9 mn, Chester Music
- The Abbess of Andouillets for a cappella choir, 9 mn, Chester Music
- Water Dances for the Michael Nyman Band, Chester Music
- Water Dances for the Michael Nyman Band, Chester Music
- 1983
- A Wild and Distant Shore (The Piano) for large ensemble, 6 mn, Chester Music
- Ballet Mécanique for ensemble, Chester Music
- elec I'll Stake My Cremona to a Jew's Trump for electronically modified violin and viola, 12 mn, Chester Music
- Love is Certainly, at Least Alphabetically Speaking for soprano and large ensemble, 6 mn, Chester Music
- 1982
- A Watery Death (The Draughtsman's Contract) for large ensemble, 4 mn, Chester Music
- An Eye for Optical Theory (The Draughtsman's Contract) for large ensemble, 5 mn, Chester Music
- An Eye for Optical Theory (from The Draughtsman's Contract) for saxophone ensemble, piano and electric bass, 4 mn, Chester Music
- Bravura in the Face of Grief (The Draughtsman's Contract) for large ensemble, 12 mn, Chester Music
- Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds (The Draughtsman's Contract) for large ensemble, 5 mn, Chester Music
- Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds (from The Draughtsman's Contract) for piano, 5 mn, Chester Music
- Queen of the Night (The Draughtsman's Contract) for large group, 6 mn, Chester Music
- Queen of the Night (from The Draughtsman's Contract) for saxophone ensemble, piano and electric bass, 7 mn, Chester Music
- Real Slow Drag for saxophone quartet, 15 mn, Chester Music
- The Disposition of the Linen (The Draughtsman's Contract) for large ensemble, 5 mn, Chester Music
- 1981
- Bird Anthem for choir and large ensemble, 4 mn, Chester Music
- Five Orchestral Pieces Opus Tree for large ensemble, 14 mn, Chester Music
- M-Work for large ensemble, 30 mn, Chester Music
- Think Slow, Act Fast for ensemble, 16 mn, Chester Music
- elec Two violins, 19 mn, Chester Music
- 1980
- A Neat Slice of Saraband for clarinet, trombone, piano and cello, 4 mn, Chester Music
- A Neat Slice of Time for a cappella choir, Chester Music
- 1979
- Bird List for ensemble, 4 mn, Chester Music
- Bird List Song for soprano and large ensemble, Chester Music
- Four Ostinatos for bass clarinet, 20 mn, Chester Music
- Masterwork Samples for the Michael Nyman Band, Chester Music
- The Masterwork/Award-Winning Fishknife for ensemble, Chester Music
- 1977
- In Re Don Giovanni for orchestra, 4 mn, Chester Music
- In Re Don Giovanni for large ensemble, 3 mn, Chester Music
- 1976
- 1-100 for 4 to 6 pianos, Chester Music
- Date de composition inconnue
- Symphony No. 7: Something Connected With Energy for orchestra, 20 mn, Chester Music
Catalog source(s)
Compositions pour le cinéma (publiées chez Chester)
- A Walk through H (Peter Greenaway, 1977)
- Vertical Features Remake (Peter Greenaway, 1978)
- The Falls (Peter Greenaway, 1980)
- The Draughtman’s Contract (Peter Greenaway, 1982)
- Frozen Music (Michael Eaton, 1983)
- I’ll stake my cremona to a Jew’s Trump (Sara Jolly, 1983)
- Nelly’s Version (Maurice Hatton, 1983)
- A Zed and Two Naughts (Peter Greenaway, 1985)
- The Disputation (Geoff Sax, 1986)
- Drowning by Numbers (Peter Greenaway, 1988)
- Death in the Seine (Peter Greenaway, 1989)
- Out of the Ruins (Agnieszka Piotrowska, 1989)
- The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover (Peter Greenaway, 1989)
- Men of Steel (Agnieszka Piotrowska, 1990)
- Prospero’s books (Peter Greenaway, 1991)
- The Piano (Jane Campion, 1992)
- The Fall of Icarus (Jacques Bourton, Thomas De Norre, 1992)
- The Final Score (Matthew Whiteman, 1992)
- A la Folie (Six days, six nights) (1994)
- Carrington (Christopher Hampton, 1994)
- The Diary of Anne Frank (Akinori Nagaoka, 1995)
- Enemy Zero (Kenji Eno, 1996)
- The Ogre (Volker Schlöndorff, 1996)
- Wonderland (Michael Winterbottom, 1999)
- Act without words (Karel Reisz, 2000)
- The Claim (Michael Winterbottom, 2001)
- 24 heures de la vie d’une femme (Laurent Bouhnik, 2002)
- The Actors (Connor McPherson, 2002)
- The Libertine (Laurence Dunmore, 2005)
- The Eleventh Year (Dziga Vertov, 2009)
- Battleship Potemkin (Dziga Vertov, 2011)
Liens Internet
- Site du compositeur : http://www.michaelnyman.com/
- Catalogue de ses œuvres : https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/composer/1149/Michael-Nyman/
- Entretien avec Dan Goldwasser pour Sountrack.net, 16 mars 2000
- Entretien avec Peter Conrad pour The Guardian, 12 mai 2002
- Entretien vidéo avec Peter Cowie dans le cadre de la Berlinale, 16 février 2011
- Entretien pour la Red Bull Music Academy, 15 janvier 2016
- Entretien avec Chris Meigh-Andrews, mai 2017
(liens vérifiés en septembre 2020).
Bibliographie
- Pwyll AP SIÔN, The Music of Michael Nyman: Texts, Contexts and Intertexts, Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, 2007.
- Pwyll AP SIÔN (éd.), Michael Nyman, Collected Writings, Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.
- Maartein BEIRENS, The Identity of European Minimal Music, thèse de doctorat, Université de Louvain, Belgique, 2005.
- Daniel CAUX, « Une musique visuelle », in Danièle RIVIÈRE (éd.), Peter Greenaway, Paris, éditions Dis Voir, coll. « Entrevues », 1996.
- Michael NYMAN, Experimental Music, Cage et au-delà, traduit de l’anglais par Nathalie Gentili, Paris, Allia, 2005.
- Michael O’SHAUGHNESSY, « Romantic Minimalist**»: meaning and emotion in the film music of Michael Nyman, The University of Western Australia, 2010 (non publiée).
Discographie
- Michael NYMAN, Decay Music, Michael Nyman, piano et percussion, Nigel Shipway, percussion, 1 LP, Obscure/Island Records, 1976, Obscure no. 6 (rééd. CD Virgin, 2004, CDVE 964).
- Michael NYMAN, Michael Nyman, Michael Nyman Band, 1 LP, Piano Records, 1981, SHEET-1 (rééd. CD MN Records, 2011, MNRCD 123.
- Michael NYMAN, The Draughtman’s Contract (B.O.F.), Michael Nyman Band, 1 LP, Charisma, 1982, CAS 1158 (rééd. CD Virgin, 1989, 0777 7 86463 2 7).
- Michael NYMAN, The Kiss And Other Movements, Michael Nyman Band, 1 LP, EG/Polydor, 1985, 825 937-1 (rééd. CD Virgin, 1990, 0777 7 87385 2 7).
- Michael NYMAN, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, Michael Nyman, direction, 1 CD, CBS, 1988, MK 44669.
- Michael NYMAN, Drowning By Numbers (B.O.F.), Michael Nyman Band, 1 CD, Virgin, 1988, 0777 7 87399 2 0.
- Michael NYMAN, La Traversée de Paris, Michael Nyman Band, 1 CD, Criterion, 1989, CRITCD 1.
- Michael NYMAN, Le cuisinier, le voleur, sa femme et son amant (B.O.F.), Michael Nyman Band, London Voices, 1 CD, Venture, 1989, 30730.
- Michael NYMAN, Quatuors à cordes n° 1 à n° 3, Balanescu Quartet, 1 CD, Argo, 1991, 433 093-2.
- Michael NYMAN, Song Book, Ute Lemper, mezzo-soprano, Michael Nyman, direction, 1 CD, Decca, 1991, 425 227-2.
- Michael NYMAN, Time Will Pronounce (The 1992 Commissions), 1 CD, Argo, 1992, 440 282-2
- Michael NYMAN, La Leçon de piano (B.O.F.), membres de l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Munich, Michael Nyman, piano & direction, 1 CD, Delabel, 1993, DE 882862.
- Michael NYMAN, Concertos: Double Concerto For Saxophone & Cello, Harpsichord Concerto, Trombone Concerto, 1 CD, EMI Classics, 1997, 7243 5 56487 2 3.
- Michael NYMAN, Bienvenu à Gattaca (B.O.F.), 1 CD, Virgin, 1997, 7243 8458702 4.
- Michael NYMAN*,* Facing Goya: An Opera In Four Acts, Michael Nyman Band, 2 CD, Warner Classics, 2002, 0927-45342-2.
- Michael NYMAN*, Man And Boy: Dada* - An Opera In Two Acts, Michael Nyman Band, 2 CD, MN Records, 2005, MNRCD 101/2.
- Michael NYMAN*, Love Counts* – An Opera In Two Acts, Hilary Summers, soprano, Andrew Slater, baryton-basse, Michael Nyman Band, Paul McGrath, direction, 2 CD, MN Records, 2005, MNRCD 111-112.
- Michael NYMAN*,* Six Celan Songs - The Ballad Of Kastriot Rexhepi, Hilary Summers, Sarah Leonard, sopranos, Michael Nyman Band, 1 CD, MN Records, 2006, MNRCD 108.
- Michael NYMAN*,* Mozart 252, Hilary Summers, soprano, Andrew Slater, baryton-basse, Michael Nyman Band, 1 CD, MN Records, 2008, MNRCD 113.
- Michael NYMAN, 8 Lus Songs – I Sonetti lussuriosi, Marie Angel, soprano, Michael Nyman Band, 1 CD, MN Records, 2008, MNRCD 114.
- Michael NYMAN*,* Vertov Sounds, Michael Nyman, direction, 1 CD, MN Records, 2010, MNRCD 118.
- Michael NYMAN, U. SHRINIVAS, Rajan & Sajan MISRA, Sangam, 1 CD, MN Records, 2012, MNRCD 119.
- Michael NYMAN, Piano Trios 1992-2010, Fidelio Trio, 1 CD, MN Records, 2012, MNRCD 120.
- Michael NYMAN, War Work: 8 songs With Film, Hilary Summers, soprano, Michael Nyman Band, 1 CD, MN Records, 2015, MNRCD 138.
- Michael NYMAN, Symphony No. 11: Hillsborough Memorial, Kathryn Rudge, mezzo-soprano, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Josep Vincent, direction, 1 CD, MN Records, 2015, MNRCD 136.
- Michael NYMAN*, Complete Piano Music*, Jeroen Van Voen, piano, 2 CD, Brilliant Classics, 2016, 95112.
- Michael NYMAN, Symphonies No. 2&*No.*5, The World Orchestra, Josep Vincent, direction, 1 CD, MN Records, 2017, MNRCD 134.
- Michael NYMAN, Chamber Music Vol. III: String Quartets 5 & 4, The Smith Quartet, 1 CD, MN Records, 2018, MNRCD 134.