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Nico Muhly

Mary Anne Hobbs is joined by composer Nico Muhly, who has been commissioned to write new music for the landmark revival of Caryl Churchill's The Skriker.

Mary Anne Hobbs is joined by composer Nico Muhly, who has been commissioned to compose new music for the landmark revival of Caryl Churchill's The Skriker as part of Manchester International Festival.

As this year's festival draws to a close, Mary Anne is joined by this diverse and challenging composer ... who is also probably one of the busiest men in music

Nico has written operas, orchestra pieces, film scores, and composed choral music for Tallis Scholars and the Hilliard Ensemble. His work has been commissioned by St Pauls Cathedral and Carniege Hall; he's composed for Ballet, arranged music for The National and Grizzly Bear, worked alongside his mentor Philip Glass and was the man Bjork turned to when she wanted her reimagining of 'Oceania' to feel like a fantasy of Richard Clayderman and Liberace on stage.

See, we told you he'd been busy

His most recent work has been to create an original score for Caryl Churchill's The Skriker, an extraordinary tale of a broken and fractured England where ancient fairy stories and the contemporary world collide as two teenage mothers are lured into a devastating musical underworld by a shapeshifting spirit.

3 hours

Last on

Sun 19 Jul 2015 07:00

Music Played

  • Eddie Floyd

    Things Get Better

    • Rhino.
  • Richard Hawley

    Which Way

    • Parlophone.
  • ANOHNI and the Johnsons

    Hope There's Someone

  • Orange Juice

    What Presence?

    • Very Best Of.
    • POLYDOR.
  • All We Are

    Honey

    • Double Six Recordings.
  • France Gall

    Laisse Tomber Les Filles

    • WEA France.
  • The Damned

    Neat, Neat, Neat

    • Big Beat.
  • Korey Dane

    Fade Into You

  • Tame Impala

    Eventually

    • Fiction/Polydor.
  • Roots Manuva

    Witness (1 Hope)

    • Big Dada Music.
  • Arctic Monkeys

    R U Mine?

    • R U Mine?.
    • DOMINO RECORD CO LTD.
    • 1.
  • Billy Bragg

    A New England

    • Cooking Vinyl.
  • Outfit

    Framed

    • Memphis Industries.
  • Aretha Franklin

    Think

    • Dino.
  • Paul McCartney

    Coming Up

    • Parlophone.
  • Ian Brown

    My Star

    • Polydor.
  • Beck

    Dreams

    • Capitol.
  • Jos茅 Gonz谩lez

    Crosses

  • Gwenno

    Chwyldro

    • Heavenly Recordings.
  • The Capitols

    Cool Jerk

    • Warner Bros..
  • Janet Jackson

    No Sleeep (feat. J. Cole)

  • Suzanne Vega

    Marlene On The Wall

    • A&M.
  • Thundercat

    Them Changes

    • Brainfeeder.
  • Elvis Costello & The Attractions

    Clubland

    • The Best Of.
    • UNIVERSAL MUSIC TV.
    • 1.
  • The Maccabees

    Something Like Happiness

    • FICTION.
  • Savages

    Husbands

  • Crushed Beaks

    Feelers

    • Matilda.
  • Tom Waits

    Alice

    • Alice.
    • Anti-.
  • Father John Misty

    I Love You, Honeybear

    • I Love You, Honeybear.
    • Bella Union.
  • Leftfield

    Original

    • Hard Hands.
  • The Saints

    (I'm) Stranded

    • COLUMBIA.
  • Django Django

    Shake & Tremble

    • Because Music.
  • Nico Muhly

    A Hudson Cycle

  • Cream

    Strange Brew

    • Polydor.
  • SOAK

    Be A Nobody

    • Rough Trade.
  • The Stranglers

    No More Heroes

    • Virgin.
  • Frank Ocean

    Super Rich Kids

    • MERCURY.
  • Beirut

    No No No

    • 4 A.D..
  • First Aid Kit

    My Silver Lining

    • Stay Gold.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.
  • Digital Underground

    Doowutchyalike

    • 100% Rap Originals.
    • Tommy Boy Music.
    • 13.
  • Modest Mouse

    The Ground Walks With Time In A Box

    • Epic.
  • Richard Hell & the Voidoids

    Blank Generation

    • Polygram TV.
  • Sunriser

    • Julia Holter

      Feel You

Broadcast

  • Sun 19 Jul 2015 07:00