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Film score. Label. Virgin Records. The Very Best of Michael Nyman: Film Music 1980–2001 is a compilation album film music by Michael Nyman. It was released on November 6, 2001 by Virgin Records. It including three previously unreleased tracks (from Nelly's Version and Monsieur Hire) and one from the limited release, La Traversée de Paris.
Michael Nyman. Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway ), and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion 's The Piano.
The Piano is the original soundtrack, on the Virgin Records label, of the 1993 Academy Award -winning film The Piano. The original score was composed by Michael Nyman and is his twentieth album release. Despite being called a "soundtrack", this is a partial score re-recording, as Nyman himself also performs the piano on the album (whereas the ...
The Michael Nyman Songbook is a collection of art songs by Michael Nyman based on texts by Paul Celan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Shakespeare and Arthur Rimbaud.It was recorded as an album with Ute Lemper in 1991, and again as a concert film in 1992, under the direction of Volker Schlöndorff, again with Ute Lemper, though many of the musicians had changed.
Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds is a piece of minimalist music from the soundtrack for The Draughtsman's Contract, written by Michael Nyman. In the forty years since its release it has been much quoted and sampled and performed by various ensembles. It is based on the Prelude to Act III, Scene 2 of Henry Purcell ’s opera, King Arthur.
The Piano Sings is a 2005 solo album by Michael Nyman featuring personal interpretations of film music he wrote between 1993 and 2003. It is his second release on his own label, MN Records, and his 49th release overall. The album was released alongside a concert tour. [2]
Pages in category "Films scored by Michael Nyman" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Stranger At The Window (included in Michael Nyman's The Very Best of Michael Nyman: Film Music 1980–2001 and credited to The Michael Nyman Orchestra, along with Cannibal Fantasy). In addition, the tracks most recognisably in Nyman's (more classical) idiom include: [speculation?] The "Ives" tracks (i.e. Ives Returns and A Game Of Two Shoulders).