This process of musical appropriation – imagine Bach adding several instrumental lines to one of his solo violin partitas in order to turn it into a concerto – provides the quartet with an almost ...

Despite their apparent directness, Michael Nyman's works often carry a great deal of musical and extra-musical baggage, with connections linking them. The song cycle Acts of Beauty has links with two ...

If Michael Nyman, Composer Simon Haram, Saxophone Liz Burley, Electric piano (Michael) Nyman Band Why Liz Burley, Electric piano Michael Nyman, Composer (Michael) Nyman Band Simon Haram, Saxophone ...

Robert Worby presents a trio of British string quartets recorded at the 2012 Cheltenham Festival: Giles Swayne's String Quartet No. 3; Hugh Wood's String Quartet No. 2; Michael Nyman's String Quartet ...

Nyman, 70 this year, is a composer whose popular success and accessibility has never come at the expense of his constant experimentalism. Tom Service celebrates the huge range of his output, and picks ...