The Piano: Original Music From The Film By Jane Campion [Soundtrack]

the piano: original music from the film by jane campion [soundtrack]

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The Piano, film score
Composed by Michael Nyman
with John Harle, Andrew Findon, David Roach
Conducted by Michael Nyman

Editorial Reviews
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Michael Nyman came of age as a classical composer in the radical London of the late '60s. His work embraces multiple vernaculars (jazz, avant garde, conceptual art) and helped cement the foundation of what came to be known as minimalism. Decades into his career, Nyman's score to Jane Campion's film The Piano made him a star. The movie's themes of colonialism and silence (its protagonist, portrayed by Holly Hunter, cannot speak) were perfectly aligned with his longtime interests in world and ambient music. Horn players assist members of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra in fleshing out Nyman's stately, hymn-like motifs. On the more heavily orchestrated cues, sentimentality wins out over minimalist restraint; the best tracks feature Nyman on solo piano, playing the rudimentary, faux period repertoire of Hunter's character. --Marc Weidenbaum

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The Piano: Original Music From The Film By Jane Campion [Soundtrack]

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Sounds of emotion
Extraordinary
Complex & Beautiful...
La obra maestra de Michael Nyman!
Lite music for lite people

The Piano: Original Music From The Film By Jane Campion

Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000WK1
Release Date: 1993-10-19

Tracks:

To The Edge Of The Earth
Big My Secret
A Wild and Distant Shore
The Heart Asks Pleasure First (From 'the Piano')
Here To There
The Promise
A Bed Of Ferns
The Fling
The Scent Of Love
Deep Into The Forest
The Mood That Passes Through You
Lost and Found
The Embrace
Little Impulse
The Sacrifice
I Clipped Your Wing
The Wounded
All Imperfect Things
Dreams Of A Journey

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Michael Nyman came of age as a classical composer in the radical London of the late '60s. His work embraces multiple vernaculars (jazz, avant garde, conceptual art) and helped cement the foundation of what came to be known as minimalism. Decades into his career, Nyman's score to Jane Campion's film The Piano made him a star. The movie's themes of colonialism and silence (its protagonist, portrayed by Holly Hunter, cannot speak) were perfectly aligned with his longtime interests in world and ambient music. Horn players assist members of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra in fleshing out Nyman's stately, hymn-like motifs. On the more heavily orchestrated cues, sentimentality wins out over minimalist restraint; the best tracks feature Nyman on solo piano, playing the rudimentary, faux period repertoire of Hunter's character. --Marc Weidenbaum

Customer Reviews:

Sounds of emotion.......2007-01-24

I saw the film, The Piano, many years ago. I loved the music very much. I listened to this album over and over. I then lost the CD a couple of years ago. I recently purchased it again. I turned it on, to have some music to relax to while I took a bubble bath. I pressed play, got in the tub, and began to listen. I had to get out of the tub and stop it from playing, otherwise my tears would cause the bathtub to overflow. In other words, this goes beyond normal relaxing piano music. The emotion it evokes is pretty raw. But when you're in the mood, it's a great album.

Extraordinary.......2005-12-02

Has anyone noticed how Chopin has copied Michael Nyman's score for The Piano in his Piano Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op.58, Largo? Someone had better tell Nyman.

Complex & Beautiful..........2005-08-21

Truly magnificent! The Piano's "My Big Secret" is tragicly
beautiful...haunting and contemplative...truly a stunning piece of music.

La obra maestra de Michael Nyman!.......2005-08-12

La banda sonora de la película 'El piano' es, para mi, la gran obra maestra del compositor Michael Nyman. Más allá de su espléndido tema central (que aparece citado mediante la técnica de la variación en algún otro fragmento), la partitura presenta una música envolvente y descriptiva, que combina melancolía, relax, resentimiento y fuerza. Una música que llega directa al alma, que apetece oir muchas veces.
Los solos del piano de Ada (la protagonista del film) se ven perfectamente complementados por los fragmentos orquestales, para crear la que es una de las bandas sonoras más hermosas de los últimos tiempos.
Excepcional la interpretación del propio Michael Nyman al piano con su Michael Nyman's Band, un conjunto de instrumentistas de grandísima calidad, al igual que la orquesta.
Una compra obligada para los amantes de las bandas sonoras, o simplemente, para los amantes de la música hermosa, con esa rara capacidad de emocionar.

Lite music for lite people.......2004-08-25

The central conceit of Jane Campion's ludicrously over-praised "The Piano" is that Ada, a mute, communicates through the music she plays on her beloved piano -- which magical instrument, I might add, can somehow be transported, unplayed in a crate below decks in a sailing vessel from Scotland to New Zealand, and remain more or less perfectly in tune. What's more, it can be left on that beach, partially uncrated, for several days, with the sea lapping about its feet, and remain in tune.

And once it is out of the crate, it seems that if the anachronistic, aimless and frilly twaddle she produces on the piano are any indication, Ada's thoughts are mostly of afternoons spent in day spas relaxing with cucumber slices upon the eyes to the strains of Windham Hill-style new age noodlings. I suppose if you're partial to "relaxing," fatuous piano dawdlings this would be your thing. But you'd be well-advised to seek out something a little more musically interesting than explore this sonic equivalent of a vat of vanilla yoghurt.

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