‘Max handles the quartet medium with confidence and individuality. Challenging and complex, the three movements are strikingly differentiated in tenor and technique’

Seen & Heard International

NB. Please excuse a few broken recording links on this page while Noah Max’s online portfolio undergoes significant updates. These will be corrected shortly.

albums

string quartets

★★★★★ ‘Immense conviction and power… a fascinating release that repays repeated listening’ Classical Source

★★★★ ‘Compelling, self-assured, brilliantly varied in style’ BBC Music Magazine

★★★★ ‘Eloquent and technically sophisticated’ Pizzicato

‘Dark, viscerally exciting, accessible contemporary chamber music - highly recommended’ The Arts Desk

‘A compelling new release… inventive, intense and vividly expressive’ Yorkshire Times

songs of loneliness: solos, duos & trios

opera

nineteen eighty-four, op.53

Baritone & octet | 2023-4 | Performance materials

a child in striped pyjamas, op.34

Soprano, mezzo, tenor, bass-baritone, clarinet, trumpet and string quartet | 2021-2 | Self-published; contact for performance materials

‘A Holocaust drama with integrity, emotionally ambitious and vocally eloquent’ Sir Nicholas Kenyon, The Telegraph

★★★★ ‘Intense, harrowing drama which invites universal grief’ Barry Millington, London Evening Standard

★★★★ ‘A high degree of textural inventiveness… marvellously scored… the vocal lines are athletic and colourful’ The Arts Desk

‘Max’s control of colour and texture is as impressive as it is wide-ranging’ The Stage

‘An assured debut in a genre that exposes plenty of more experienced composers’ Alexandra Coghlan, Opera Magazine

‘A cry of rage… striking, unforgettable’ Hugh Canning, Operalogue

orchestral

truth to material, op.67

Concerto for Flugelhorn and Orchestra | 2026 | In preparation

symphony no.1, op.50

Chamber orchestra | 2023-4 | Performance materials | Listen

axiom: concerto for cello and chamber orchestra, op.46

Solo cello & chamber orchestra | 2023 | Performance materials | Listen

cherished voices, op.28 | v. AMEN available separately

String orchestra | 2020 | Performance materials | Listen

etz chayim, op.24a

String orchestra | 2020 | Performance materials | Listen

radical severance: concerto for flute and orchestra, op.22

Solo flute & orchestra | 2020 | Performance materials | Listen

the chakras, op.14 | iv. AMBA available separately

String orchestra | 2019 | Performance materials | Listen

the candle lagoon, op.8

Chamber orchestra | 2018 | Performance materials | Listen

three echoes, op.3

Sinfonietta | 2016 | Performance materials | Listen

string quartets

string quartet no.4, op.45

String quartet | 2023 | Performance materials | Listen

string quartet no.3, op.41

String quartet | 2022 | Performance materials | Listen

string quartet no.2, op.37

String quartet | 2020-21 | Performance materials | Listen

string quartet no.1: The man who planted trees, op.25

String quartet & optional narrator | 2020 | Performance materials | Listen

more chamber works

guinevere, op.62

Trumpet & string quartet | 2025 | Self-published; contact for performance materials

gnossiennes, op.58

Clarinet & string quartet | 2023-4 | Performance materials

babel, op.27

Open score work for any 7 or more instrumentalists | 2020 | Performance materials | Listen

magnetism II, op.16

Flute, bassoon & harp | 2019 | Performance materials

eulogy for an imagined pitch, op.15

Eleven solo scordatura strings | 2019 | Performance materials | Listen

two vignettes, op.13

Cor anglais & string quartet | 2019 | Performance materials

theodora, op.12

Solo recorder, violin & wind sextet | 2019 | Performance materials | Listen

vignette, op.10

Piano trio | 2018-19 | Performance materials | Listen

haikus, op.7

Wind nonet & double bass | 2018 | Performance materials

sojourn, op.4

String trio | 2016 | Performance materials | Listen

magnetism III, op.16a

Clarinet, cello & accordion | 2019 | Performance materials | Listen

she-wolf, op.56

Clarinet & string quartet | 2024 | Performance materials

planetarium, op.52

Mixed septet | 2024 | Performance materials | Listen

four animal poems, op.42

Violin, clarinet, cello & piano | 2022 | Performance materials | Listen

fearful symmetry, op.35

Violin & cello | 2021 | Performance materials

phantasy quintet, op.32

Trumpet, clarinet, viola, bassoon & piano | 2021 | Performance materials | Listen

phantasy quintet, op.32A

String quartet & piano | 2021 | Performance materials

solo works

the other’s discourse, op.63

Viola and piano | 2025 | Self-published; contact for performance materials

the other’s discourse, op.63A

Bassoon and piano | 2025 | Self-published; contact for performance materials

cello suite no.I, op.39 | SARABANDE available separately

Solo cello | 2022 | Performance materials

tetraptych, op.38

Solo viola | 2022 | Performance materials

hymn to the chasm, op.36

Solo violin and tape electronics | 2021 | Performance materials | Listen

…to the world without time…, op.31

Solo piano | 2021 | Performance materials | Listen

silent spring, op.26

Solo violin | 2020 | Performance materials | Listen

masquerade, op.23

Solo flute, baroque flute or recorded | 2020 | Performance materials | Listen

cornucopia, op.21

Solo oboe | 2020 | Performance materials | Listen

sunset sketches, op.20

Solo piano | 2020 | Performance materials | Listen

songs of loneliness, op.19

Cello and piano | 2019-20 | Performance materials | Listen

constellations, op.11

Solo clarinet | 2018-19 | Performance materials | Listen

it comes in waves, op.9

Solo piano | 2018-19 | Performance materials | Listen

the singing spirit, op.29

Solo clarinet | 2020 | Performance materials

ennui, op.59

Flugelhorn & piano | 2024-5 | Performance materials | Listen

ennui, op.59A

Violin & piano | 2024-5 | Performance materials

nocturne, op.56

Flute & piano | 2024 | Performance materials

piano sonata no.II: The Curve, op.54

Solo piano | 2024 | Performance materials

variations & other stories, op.51

Cello & piano | 2023-24 | Performance materials | Listen

variations & other stories, op.51A

Viola & piano | 2023-24 | Performance materials

piano sonata no.I, op.43

Solo piano | 2023 | Performance materials

rapture sonata, op.47

No.4: clarinet & piano; No.5: flute & piano; No.6: oboe & piano; No.7: viola & piano | 2023 | Performance materials

vocal

four songs ON LOVE, op.66

Texts by Neil Rollinson | Baritone & piano | 2026 | Self-published; contact for performance materials

four flower songs, op.61

Texts by Ruth Thrush | Soprano, crotales & piano | 2025 | Performance materials

rain, op.48

Text by Edward Thomas | Baritone & piano | 2023 | Performance materials | Listen

rapture, op.47 (Complete, parts I - III)

Texts by Carol Ann Duffy | Soprano, clarinet & piano | 2023 | Performance materials

aedh, op.30

Text by W. B. Yeats | 2021 | Performance materials | Listen

choral

kaddish, op.60

SATB chorus and string orchestra | 2024-5 | Performance materials

etz chayim, op.24

SATB chorus | 2020 | Performance materials

pater noster, op.17

SATB chorus | 2019 | Performance materials

ave, regina caelorum, op.6

SSATB chorus | 2017 | Performance materials | Listen

adlestrop, op.2

Text by Edward Thomas | SATB chorus | 2015 | Performance materials

yivarechecha, op.1

SATB chorus | 2014 | Performance materials | Listen

for young musicians

nebulae, op. 33

Mixed-level string orchestra | 2021 | Performance materials

little prayer, op. 18

Cello or bassoon trio | 2019 | Performance materials

frinton string symphony, op. 5

Mixed-level string orchestra | 2017 | Performance materials | Listen

‘Max handles the quartet medium with confidence and individuality. Challenging and complex, the three movements are strikingly differentiated in tenor and technique’

albums

string quartets

songs of loneliness: solos, duos & trios

opera

nineteen eighty-four, op.53

a child in striped pyjamas, op.34

orchestral

truth to material, op.67

tHE alpinist, op.65

tHE RED MAN, op.64

turn, op.57

symphony no.1, op.50

axiom: concerto for cello and chamber orchestra, op.46

cherished voices, op.28 | v. AMEN available separately

etz chayim, op.24a

radical severance: concerto for flute and orchestra, op.22

the chakras, op.14 | iv. AMBA available separately

the candle lagoon, op.8

three echoes, op.3

string quartets

string quartet no.4, op.45

string quartet no.3, op.41

string quartet no.2, op.37

string quartet no.1: The man who planted trees, op.25

more chamber works

guinevere, op.62

gnossiennes, op.58

babel, op.27

magnetism II, op.16

eulogy for an imagined pitch, op.15

two vignettes, op.13

theodora, op.12

vignette, op.10

haikus, op.7

sojourn, op.4

magnetism III, op.16a

she-wolf, op.56

planetarium, op.52

four animal poems, op.42

fearful symmetry, op.35

phantasy quintet, op.32

phantasy quintet, op.32A

solo works

the other’s discourse, op.63

the other’s discourse, op.63A

cello suite no.I, op.39 | SARABANDE available separately

tetraptych, op.38

hymn to the chasm, op.36

…to the world without time…, op.31

silent spring, op.26

masquerade, op.23

cornucopia, op.21

sunset sketches, op.20

songs of loneliness, op.19

constellations, op.11

it comes in waves, op.9

the singing spirit, op.29

ennui, op.59

ennui, op.59A

nocturne, op.56

piano sonata no.II: The Curve, op.54

variations & other stories, op.51

variations & other stories, op.51A

piano sonata no.I, op.43

rapture sonata, op.47

vocal

four songs ON LOVE, op.66

four flower songs, op.61

rain, op.48

rapture, op.47 (Complete, parts I - III)

aedh, op.30

choral

kaddish, op.60

etz chayim, op.24

pater noster, op.17

ave, regina caelorum, op.6

adlestrop, op.2

yivarechecha, op.1

for young musicians