The Very Best of Michael Nyman - Film Music 1980-2001 [Soundtrack]

the very best of michael nyman - film music 1980-2001 [soundtrack]

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Product Description
This superb import compilation brings together some of the composer's best soundtrack works on two CD's. Includes many tracks from the early Peter Greenway films, the award winning Jane Champion film the The Piano and highly acclaimed films by Michael Winterbottom. Also included are previously unreleased work as well as material from 'The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover', 'Hairdresser's Husband', 'Prospero's Books', & 'Carrington', 'Gattaca', 'End Of The Affair' & much more. EMI 2001 release. Housed in a slipcase.

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The Very Best of Michael Nyman - Film Music 1980-2001 [Soundtrack]
The Very Best of Michael Nyman - Film Music 1980-2001
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Best of Michael Nyman
  • What a couple : Nyman - Greenaway!
  • A Truly Gifted Composer
  • A good overview of his past work
 The Very Best of Michael Nyman - Film Music 1980-2001
Michael Nyman
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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  3. Gattaca: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
  4. Wonderland 1999 Film Score
  5. Drowning By Numbers (1987 Film)

ASIN: B00005NDVL
Release Date: 2001-11-12

Tracks:

  1. Bird List
  2. Chasing Sheep Is Best Left To Shepherds
  3. An Eye For Optical Theory
  4. Homage To Maurice
  5. Angelfish Decay
  6. Time Lapse
  7. Trysting Fields
  8. Wheelbarrow Walk
  9. Knowing The Ropes
  10. Memorial
  11. Skating
  12. Peeking
  13. Abandoning
  14. Skirting
  15. Miranda Previsited
  16. Here To There
  17. The Heart Asks Pleasure First/The Promise
  18. All Imperfect Things
  19. Dreams Of A Journey

Tracks:

  1. Escape
  2. Fly Drive
  3. The Infinite Complexities Of Christmas
  4. If
  5. Abel Carries Ephraim
  6. Becoming Jerome/God's Hands
  7. The Morrows
  8. The Other Side
  9. The Departure
  10. Convening The Coven
  11. Stranger At The Window
  12. Cannibal Fantasy
  13. Molly
  14. Eddie
  15. Dan
  16. Eileen
  17. Sarah Dies
  18. The End Of The Affair
  19. The Shoot-Out
  20. The Burning

Album Description

This superb import compilation brings together some of the composer's best soundtrack works on two CD's. Includes many tracks from the early Peter Greenway films, the award winning Jane Champion film the The Piano and highly acclaimed films by Michael Winterbottom. Also included are previously unreleased work as well as material from 'The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover', 'Hairdresser's Husband', 'Prospero's Books', & 'Carrington', 'Gattaca', 'End Of The Affair' & much more. EMI 2001 release. Housed in a slipcase.

Album Details

Double Disc Selection of Composer Nyman's Best Film Soundtrack Work which Includes "The Piano", "The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, her Lover", "Prospero's Books","The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, her Lover", "Prospero's Books", "The Draughtsman's Contract","Gattaca" and Many More.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Best of Michael Nyman.......2007-01-05

This truly is Michael Nyman's best works over an extensive period of time. This collection shows the range of his compositions and it is beautifully recorded. For any Michael Nyman fan this is a "must have"!

5 out of 5 stars What a couple : Nyman - Greenaway!.......2004-12-23

The films of Peter Greenaway are the perfect sum of craftsmanship : text , painting , photography , a minimalist script and frenetic exuberance . All the imaginable beauty and the unthinkable ugliness ; the hidden fears of the human being the timeless evilness . Greenaway films are made such a great symphony . You can identify the four movements in every single movie of this original film maker.
The happy joining with Michael Nyman was a very successful encounter . Because Nyman with his fertile creativity makes possible the most intimate motives and depicts with precision the right feeling and the implacable fate of the characters in the play.
From the draughtsman' s contract . to the sinister A zed and two noughts , passing for the cynical Drowning by numbers , the merciless vengeance in The cook , the thief , his wife and her lover and finally Prospero books based in the Tempest of William Shakespeare .
This album is a summation and digest of ten years of progress in the performance of musicv by a composer whom evidently is gifted and identified in his commitment , and joyous enthusiasm..

5 out of 5 stars A Truly Gifted Composer.......2003-01-27

Michael Nyman first got my attention with his most popular score to date, The Piano. Nyman's music in the film The Piano, I believe, has yet to be surpassed by any piano score to date. An accomplishment very well recieved by the composer himself, who's redone the score over and over again(I would too if I wrote it). Nyman's other works are not too familiar to me but they all sound very good. His work in Gattaca, although, is another one of Nyman's better scores. The score to Wonderland is probably the closes work to The Piano, feeling wise. Very intense and emotional. I give Michael Nyman 5 stars for his 21 years of composing music for film.

4 out of 5 stars A good overview of his past work.......2002-02-03

Welcome to the word of minimalist classical music by Michael Nyman, the composer who has been credited with the birth of the minimalist movement. If you haven't heard of him before, chances is that you have heard his music already, since his compositions do get used in numerous film soundtrack, most notably in , which brought him numerous recognitions. Minimalist music can be quite fickled, you either get it or you don't. It owes its root to the folk music traditions, hence the emphasis is less on technical brilliance and more on the music's emotional impact. In this sense, this collection is a real mix. There are some tracks that are emotionally inspiring, such as 'fly drive' in disc 2, others struggled to make impact on me, but that might have to do with the mood I was in.

If you haven't bought his album before, this album is a good start, because it does give you a good overview of his past work. I would also highly recommend soundtrack, which should ease you into the world of Michael Nyman.

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