In Bright Mass With Canons the canonical motifs are present right from the beginning and carry through almost every bar of the work.There are echoes of early English Choral writing and abstracted sections with flurries of sound interspersed with more Choral writing all in the most modern idioms. Contemporary American composer Nico Muhly is a prolific writer and arranger who at 32 is the younge…

For Nine Male Voices And Orchestra-Luminous Body is a collaboration between Nico Muhly and Craig Lucas written in the period immediately following their narratively charged opera 'Two Boys'. Luminous Body is as a result abstract and poetic in gesture and form. The text interpolates among other things stylized versions of the teachings of Christ Buddha Mohammed and Plato; these are scramble…

Hymns For Private has been beautifully composed by Nico Muhly. This score and parts is the perfect addition to any wind ensembles collection that may be looking for something a little different.Hymns For Private was commissioned by Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Wigmore Hall London with the support of André Hoffmann President of the Fondation Hoffmann a Swiss grant-making foundation for the w…

POD-Nico Muhly's Stabat Mater Dolorosa for Soprano Baritone and Ensemble. Full score. My Stabat Mater is a very simply-constructed piece of music. I knew I wanted to write a duet a piece of religious music and something to go along with a bit of Birtwistle. My initial instinct was to base the piece on drones as Birtwistle's music has so very many notes but then I decided that an austere but e…

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From the Golden Globe nominated movie The Reader comes three arrangemetns for Viola and Piano.The Piano takes the lead with the Viola instead providing drones shimmers and swells.

Nico Muhly's Fast Patterns for two Pianos adapted from the fourth movement of Patterns for solo organ. Commissioned by the London Piano Festival and premiered on 8th October 2016 at King's Place London by Charles Owen & Katya Apekisheva. Duration approximately: 5 minutes

Baritone Voice-Four Traditional Songs is a setting of four heartbreaking and poignant folk songs by virtuoso contemporary composer Nico Muhly. Composed in 2011 the songs deal with themes of death murder and unimaginable events that are emotively arranged for Baritone Voice and Piano. Commissioned by Carnegie Hall in New York City and Wigmore Hall in London this work was first performed at tho…

Berceuse with seven variations

Pater Noster simply meaning 'Our Father' has been composed by Nico Muhly for SATB Chorus With Soprano Solo and was originally commissioned for the 2008 Edington Music Festival.

Gibbons Suite is a suite of works by Orlando Gibbons arranged by Nico Muhly for Clarinet in B Flat String Quartet and Piano. It was premiered by the Britten Sinfonia in January 2010.

Vocal Score-Nico Muhly's Let All The World In Every Corner Sing for SATB chorus Cello and Organ. Vocal Score.Let All The World In Every Corner Sing was commissioned by Graham Ross and the Choir of Clare College Cambridge and first performed on 27 May 2014 by them with Peter Harrison Organ and Benjamin Michaels Cello.Rebecca Tavener in the March 2015 issue of Organist's Review states that M…

Oculi Omnium is a work by Nico Muhly for Unaccompanied Men's Voices. It is a setting of Psalm 144:15 and was composed for the Clerks of Magdalen College Oxford. A full performance lasts around 2 minutes.

Vocal Score-Nico Muhly's Sentences for Countertenor and Chamber Orchestra. Composed: 2014 Duration: 30 minutes Composers Note: Sentences is a thirty-minute meditation in collaboration with Adam Gopnik on several episodes drawn from the life and work of Alan Turing. Turing lived in a sense many different lives but at the heart of his work was I think a very musical set of anxieties. Even the…