Peter Nagle: composer, performer, sound artist
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    • Orchestral >
      • The complete consort dancing together
      • The Gull Catchers
      • Infinite Breathing
      • Pictures at an Exhibition
      • Until I die there will be sounds
      • What will survive of us is love
    • Large Ensemble (6+ players) >
      • The Ballads of the Four Seasons
      • Congregation
      • Haydn
      • Miles After Midnight
      • Musicking
      • tightrope walker
      • To The Furthest Shore
    • Small Ensemble (3-5 players) >
      • String Quartet No. 3
      • Haydn (String Quartet No. 2)
      • String Quartet No. 1
    • Solo & Duo >
      • balancing on air
      • Cantus
      • Heaven in a Wild Flower
      • Here
      • The Line to the South and the West
      • The Mountain
      • Le tombeau de Feldman
      • Parts and Poems of the Body
      • Piano music
      • Piece for Violin and Piano
      • Six Pieces for Melodica
      • Sonata for Cello and Piano
      • Sonata for Violin and Piano
    • Electronic & Recorded Media >
      • Automatic Writing
      • Fountainhead
      • Invisible Cities
      • Ronan Point
      • Water Music
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    • Here Comes Everybody
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    • Black Rice
    • Live Mellifera
    • Rising of the Lights
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What They Said

"Peter Nagle fares a little better, eking out a relatively spry melody from the cello he seems to be in the process of wrestling to the ground like a bear, one leg wrapped around the bout in a quasi-erotic entanglement."
- Robert Barry, review of The Text Score Dataset, Tempo April 2023

"draws elements of free improvisation, composition and sound art into a quiet vortex where restrained harmony amplifies into dry, hermetic mantras and the smallest of incidents are magnified to shattering proportions."
- Paul Margree, review of An Equal and Opposite Reaction, We Need No Swords

"Strong compositions, great playing, and packed with brow-furrowing themes of doubt, alienation and anxiety…what’s not to like?"
 - Ed Pinsent, review of An Equal and Opposite Reaction, The Sound Projector

"Nuggets of pure gold... floating in a sea of shit." - Michael Finnissy

"Peter Nagle, cellist and (I think) composer." - Norman Lebrecht

"Left several things to be desired" - Musical Opinion 

"Brooding Stillness and violent activity... successfully avoided the clichés" - Pauline Hall, the Guardian