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Nico Muhly

April 2024

  • The Aurora Orchestra with Robyn Stapleton and Sam Amidon.

    Stapleton/Amidon/Aurora Orchestra/Muhly review – grisly murder ballads beautifully played

    New York-based composer Nico Muhly teamed up with the Aurora Orchestra and folk singers Robyn Stapleton and Sam Amidon to explore songs from Scotland and the US

March 2024

  • Naomi Corti and Adrian Danchig-Waring of New York City Ballet in Pam Tanowitz’ Gustave Le Gray No. 1.

    New York City Ballet review – iconic company returns to show the shape of modern ballet

    NYCB’s first UK visit in 16 years brings a quadruple bill that looks to the past briefly, but mostly presents a very 21st-century vision

June 2021

  • Pekka Kuusisto and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.

    Classical home listening: Pekka Kuusisto, Il Giardino Armonico and more

    Kuusisto plays Muhly, Glass and Mozart, while Giovanni Antonini and co pass the time of day with Haydn

November 2017

  • ‘Astonishing’: Joyce DiDonato in the title role of Semiramide at the Royal Opera House.

    Semiramide; Marnie; Stimmung/ Cosmic Pulses review – she's one wicked queen

    A majestic Joyce DiDonato leads a stunning performance of rare Rossini, while Nico Muhly makes Marnie sing
  • Sasha Cooke (Marnie) and Daniel Okulitch (Mark Rutland) in ENO’s production of Marnie by Nico Muhly at the London Coliseum.

    Marnie review – Nico Muhly's psycho thriller sounds beautiful but fails to thrill

    The central relationship is compelling and there is some tremendous writing for the ENO chorus, but Muhly’s stylised opera lacks Hitchcockian suspense
  • Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren in Marnie (1964).

    Sex, sadism, blackmail: Nico Muhly on why Hitchcock's Marnie is an explosive heroine

    Brittle, bullied and blackmailed into marriage, Marnie inspired a Hitchcock classic and now a new opera. Its composer Nico Muhly unravels a twisted tale of childhood trauma, toxic guilt – and a woman who is both hunter and hunted

September 2017

  • J Hus, Joyce DiDonato, and Taylor Swift.

    Autumn arts preview 2017
    Miley, Morrissey and Marnie the opera: the essential pop, classical and jazz for autumn 2017

    Liam goes for broke, St Vincent bounces back, Nico Muhly gets Hitchcockian, Taylor Swift defends her reputation, and Peggy Seeger pens her memoirs

June 2017

  • Lads on tour... Bryce Dessner, Sufjan Stevens and Nico Muhly.

    Music of the spheres: the interstellar bromance of Planetarium

  • L to R: Bryce Dessner, Sufjan Stevens and Nico Muhly who are releasing a new album about the solar system called Planetarium

    Kitty Empire's album of the week
    Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner, James McAlister: Planetarium review – masters of the universe

April 2017

  • Pharrell Williams and The Lion King composer Hans Zimmer at Coachella in April

    The perfect score? How composers are taking pop festivals by storm

    Hollywood soundtrack maestro Hans Zimmer was an unexpected smash at Coachella – but he’s not the first orchestral artist to cross over. Are classical musicians picking up where DJs left off?

January 2017

  • A light and deft touch … Marin Alsop with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

    BBC Total Immersion Day: Philip Glass at 80 review – variety, sheer difficulty and lots of arpeggios

    Marin Alsop, the BBC Singers and others wished Glass a happy 80th with a career-spanning programme of his best and most challenging work

April 2016

  • Angela and Jennifer Chun

    Philip Glass: In the Summer House; Nico Muhly: Four Studies review – high-flying Manhattanites

    Angela Chun (violin), Jennifer Chun (violin), Nico Muhly (piano)
    (Harmonia Mundi)

December 2015

  • Brittany Howard grabs a photographer’s face during a Thunderbitch set in Brooklyn in October.

    Hidden gems of 2015: great records you may have missed

    From the thrill of Brittany Howard’s alter ego to joy on the Wirral, our critics pick some of this year’s under-the-radar releases

July 2015

  • 'Imagine the most obvious soundtrack anyone could possibly come up with': Coastal Scene, c 1892, by

    Soundscapes review – feeble, wrong-headed, and unambitious

    Giving sound to paintings is the worst idea the National Gallery has come up with in years

June 2015

  • conductor Nico Muhly.

    Britten Sinfonia/Davies/Muhly review – Turing tribute celebratory yet sorrowful

  • American composer Nico Muhly.

    Nico Muhly takes on Alan Turing: 'No one wants a gay martyr oratorio'

May 2015

  • Composer and arranger Nico Muhly

    On my radar
    On my radar: Nico Muhly’s cultural highlights

  • Bryce Dessner

    Music blog
    The National's Bryce Dessner on the American landscapes that inspire him

February 2015

  • Nico Muhly

    Facing the music
    Facing the music: Nico Muhly

    Boulez, Blake and Beyoncé... composer Nico Muhly shares his musical passions

January 2015

  • Iceland Symphony Orchestra Harpa Reykjavik.

    Music blog
    Ice and fire: the classical music scene in Iceland

    Iceland’s composers and musicians are busy breaking down the barriers between classical and popular genres. And now they have a spanking new concert hall to experiment in
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