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This will be the first time this seminal album will be issued on CD. Check www.mnrecords.com for further details coming soon. Look for the release in late November.

Bafta-winning composer Michael Nyman explains why he was inspired by Felixstowe for his latest score. His score for The Piano is probably his most famous work. His new work, On Landguard Point, premieres at the Spa Pavilion in the town as part of the …

Celebrated composer and film-maker Michael Nyman premieres his latest work in Felixstowe tomorrow. Entertainment writer WAYNE SAVAGE talks to him about the unusual way it came about.

On November 20, The Smith Quartet will perform the premiere of String Quartet No 5 by Michael Nyman as part of the Festival Automne en Normandie in Bernay, Église abbatiale Notre-Dame. The string quartet, commissioned by the festival, forms part of a …

Andy Findon's new release Density 21.5, a collection of unaccompanied works for flute (and other instruments) by contemporary British composers, features five Michael Nyman compositions. One of them, an early work called "Canzona", has never been recorded for release before. Full details …

First performed in Spain in 2000 then extensively revised for a second "premiere" in Karlsruhe in 2002, Facing Goya still ranks as Nyman's most ambitious operatic work to date. Divided into four acts, lasting well over two hours, featuring five singers and scored for a large ensemble (effectively …

It's an irony not lost on Michael Nyman. His score to a film that helped define the communist USSR will ring out in front of Moscow's new capitalist elite. "I'm sure that contemporary Russians will find this film quaint and totally incomprehensible," he …

Long Beach Opera has long specialized in edgy, adventurous pieces that major houses tend to shy away from. On Wednesday, the small company announced that its new season will include productions of operas by Michael Nyman, Francis Poulenc, Bohuslav Martinu and more. It will also feature Osvaldo Golijov's …

A £500,000 art project, which ties-in with the London Olympics, is seeking people's stories of home from across East Anglia. The multi-media On Languard Point idea includes a People's Encyclopaedia for the stories to go in. Artist Robert Pacitti said: …

Michael Nyman has a music career that takes in famous friendships, Oscars disappointment and an historic trip to Sydney, as he explains. Nyman's latest composition helps celebrate the centenary of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. "Doing the Rounds …

British composer Michael Nyman is best known for his scores, but he’s developed another artistic endeavour – film. The Australian debut of his work is at the Brickworks, in Sydney Park, St Peters. Co-hosted by COFA’s National Institute for Experimental Arts …

Nyman does fashion a witty, entertaining piece... It’s a work of many incidental pleasures – the insidiously catchy "Leonardo says" aria in Act I, or the resuscitated Goya asking the scientists why he couldn’t have been left in peace in the third act. Contralto Hilary Summers’s low contralto is perfect …

By Joyce Morgan, May 24, 2011 THE composer Michael Nyman picks up his compact camera. "Oh, that's interesting," he says. Exactly what is so fascinating about the garbage truck that has pulled up before us at the Sydney Park Brickworks isn't apparent. …