Drowning By Numbers [Import]

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Product Description
1988 film score for the Peter Greenaway film, features 13 digitally remastered tracks, packaged in a digipak. Copy Controlled. Virgin. 2004.

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Drowning By Numbers [Import]
The Essential Michael Nyman Band
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • An Excellent Sampler, and the Best Place to Start
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 The Essential Michael Nyman Band
Michael Nyman , Sarah Leonard , Linda Hirst , Clare Conners , and David Roach
Manufacturer: Decca
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000004CVW
Release Date: 1993-01-19

Tracks:

  1. The Draughtsman's Contract: Chasing Sheep Is Best Left To Shepherds
  2. The Draghtsman's Contract: An Eye For Optical Theory
  3. The Draughtsman's Contract: The Garden Is Becoming A Robe Room
  4. A Zed And Two Noughts: Prawn - watching
  5. A Zed And Two Noughts: Time Lapse
  6. Drowning By Numbers: Fish Beach
  7. Drowning By Numbers: Wheelbarrow Walk
  8. Drowning By Numbers: Knowing The Ropes
  9. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover: Miserere Paraphrase
  10. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover: Memorial
  11. Water Dances: Stroking - Synchronising
  12. Prospero's Books: Miranda

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars An Excellent Sampler, and the Best Place to Start.......2006-01-24

If you're unfamiliar with Nyman and want a broad overview of his best work, I'd start here. I actually WORE OUT a copy of this and recently bought another. When it arrived, I played it over and over-- Nyman's almost creepily insistent and precise compositions will appeal to those who appreciate minimalism and repetition in the music of other composers such as John Adams, Steve Reich, Michael Torke, and Philip Glass.

5 out of 5 stars Michael Nyman RULES !.......2004-07-22

I thought there was nothing beyond Philip Glass, Steve Reich or John Adams. Suddenly, for some strange reason I bought this CD. It far exceeded my expectations.

Nyman is a excelent composer, his music is fast-paced, joyful and delicious.

I recomend this CD for anyone who is looking for a great minimalist composer.

5 out of 5 stars Sensations mosaic.......2004-03-31

Today I was talking with a friend about the rainbow of feelings "Memorial" awakes in my mind. I consider this song like the exact opposite of easy-listening music, a feeling catalyst, a vehicle that can raise you to the sky and gradually take you to the deepest level in hell. As derrotista said, it is perfect to describe the meaning of a word like "death", but more than that, with an inevitability emphasis.

The rest of the compilation also honors the meaning of intensity. No one song in this disc will let your attention go away from the sensations mosaic this record constructs. Highly recommended.

4 out of 5 stars Good start to meet Nyman.......2004-03-05

I was a great enthusiast of new age and minimalist music in the early 90's, when I was still a teenager. I had this as one of my favourite albums and today I consider it one of my best purchases.

Ten years later, Nyman is recognised as one of the biggest composers of late XXth century. In part with the astonishing soundtrack of "The Piano". But I think this "Essential" album has more to offer to you.

Of course, my favourite is "Memorial". It is the most tragic music I have ever listened. It's a perfect track to describe what a word like "death" can mean. "Miserere Paraphrase" is the definition of another simple word: "pain".

Some other tracks are the purity of minimalism: "Knowing the Ropes", "Chasing Sheep is best left to Shepherds", "Wheelbarrow Walk" and "The Garden is Becoming a Robe Room" are of my favourites.

Why am I not giving it five stars? The reason: "Prospero's Books: Miranda". It is a bad way to end this album. Almost the whole album is devoted to Greenaway films: "The Draughtsman Contract", "The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover", "A Zed and Two Noughts" and "Drowning by Numbers" and the referred "Prospero's Books". The only track not belonging to a film is Stroking-Synchronising, from "Water Dances" album. This is a tremendous composition and should be the great finale for this album. "Miranda" is a dull and not creative composition, which Nyman doesn't have to be proud of it: it is too complex, too changing and breaks with the minimalist spirit. I also think the soprano and the mezzo don't play a "serious" part.

But of course, it has an honour place in my discography.

2 out of 5 stars The Emperor's New Music.......2002-04-11

A lot of people seem to love this guy and I just don't see why. I find it dull, intellectual (in the most pejorative sense) and defines what's wrong with a lot of "post-modernism" in music today. This guy doesn't write tunes as much as he writes concepts of tunes. The music fails to connect on an emotional level and fails to be interesting enough in purely intellectual terms to compensate for it's emotional hollowness. His craft seems a bit lacking too- filled with the trappings of minimalism without the basic musical values such as memorable melodies, logical harmony and innovative form that make a composer such as John Adams worth listening to. His often odd choices of orchestration tend to strike one as merely grotesque rather than imaginative. I'm afraid that Michael Nyman is a musical poseur and it's a shame that so many people have bought into his brand of soulless artifice.
Not recommended.
Drowning By Numbers (1987 Film)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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 Drowning By Numbers (1987 Film)
Michael Nyman
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ASIN: B000000HTR
Release Date: 1992-09-25

Tracks:

  1. Trysting Fields
  2. Sheep And Tides
  3. Great Death Game
  4. Drowning By Number 3
  5. Wheelbarrow Walk
  6. Dead Man's Catch
  7. Drowning By Number 2
  8. Bees In Trees
  9. Fish Beach
  10. Wedding Tango
  11. Crematorium Conspiracy
  12. Knowing The Ropes
  13. Endgame

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Drowning by numbers.......2007-01-06

Goregeous, gorgeous music. Will make you want to see the film.

5 out of 5 stars The Best Soundtrack of All Time.......2003-03-06

I enjoy many genres of music including film music. In the film genre I like the classics from Bernard Hermann and Miklos Rozsa to the contemporary sountracks from Phillip Glass, Patrick Doyle and Michael Nyman. I must first say that I think Michael Nyman is the most incredible composer of this era, and I think "Drowning By Numbers" is his best film score. I also love his other scores particularly the scores from "Carrington", "Gatacca", "Wonderland" and his scores from the other Greenaway films (oh, and the score from "The Piano" isn't bad either!). However, I believe this one is his greatest achievement. He took a few bars from Mozart as his source and created this soundtrack that flows seamlessly from track to track on the CD (and from scene to scene in the film). The entire soundtrack has a beautiful melancholy to it that is relaxing and powerful. The layers are so wonderfully crafted that I believe this is the most incredible moment in the minimalist era, and is the best film score ever written. I know that many would not agree with ranking it that high, but I think most people who give it a chance would agree that this album does belong in the collection of any soundtrack fan.

4 out of 5 stars Drowning in a sea of music.......2002-07-06

"Drowning By Numbers", the film: Directed by Peter Greenaway in 1987 and released in the U.S. four years later on the heels of the release of "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover". The audience follow three generations of women from the same family who murder their husbands by drowning. In return for promised sexual favors, which the women ultimately withhold, the local coroner agrees to certify the deaths as accidental.
"Drowning By Numbers", the soundtrack: Michael Nyman's compositions main appeal rely on paleness and subtlety, and most melodies guide the listener to subterfuges only to be revealed after quietness can't hold its breath anymore. The music has an undisturbed poetic quality, reminiscent of baroque but never being intrusive. Strongly recommended.

5 out of 5 stars Drowning by nyman.......2000-06-20

I first heard this when I first saw the film (go see!) and wanted to know who wrote such beautiful music, which was so in sync with the counting games and cut of the film. It's a great score: musically it carries on where Zed and Two Noughts left off, rather than take 4 bars of the Mozart piece, Nyman decided to 'rewrite' and rework the whole piece for inspiration...it turned me onto the darkness in mozart's work (the opera Don Giovanni for example) which I hadn't previously realised. Drowning by Numbers #3 is as haunting as say, 'The Garden is becoming a robe room' and very morbid, like the film...the opening up of the music and score definitely works wonders, where a lot of Z.O.O. left me cold as some academic exercise (apart from the last track, the amazing Angelfish Decay: is that a REAL human voice or a theremin? :-) whereas this is cold in a human, dark way and much more lyrical and flowing.

The only thing is now I've heard Philip Glass's 'Einstein on the Beach.' I now realise what a big influence Glass was on Nyman (rather than the other way round as I'd supposed?), the fast arpegiating chords and vocal lines, even down to the use of counting in the film (although that might not have been Nyman's doing, Greenaway and Nyman did seem to work very closely together). It does seem to equally wear it's influences on (or up?) it's sleeves as much as it improves or conquers them.

But a great soundtrack, and piece in it's own right, 5 stars for feeling and evocative mood alone.

5 out of 5 stars 100.......2000-05-18

A fantastic collection of Michael Nyman concert pieces and selections used in the film, this was mostly derived from the works of Mozart, although bearing little musical similarity. It fits the film perfectly, being both ancient and modern, with a definite melancholic edge. It's my personal favourite of all the Greenaway / Nyman collaborations, and my favourite single Michael Nyman album.
Drowning By Numbers
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    Manufacturer: Deceptive
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    Drowning by Numbers
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      		Drowning by Numbers
      Drowning by Numbers
      Manufacturer: EMI
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B0001HQ2LS
      Release Date: 2004-04-06

      Tracks:

      1. Trysting Fields
      2. Sheep & Tides
      3. Great Death Game
      4. Drowning By Number 3
      5. Wheelbarrow Walk
      6. Dead Man's Catch
      7. Drowning By Number 2
      8. Bess In Trees
      9. Fish Beach
      10. Wedding Tango
      11. Crematorium Conspiracy
      12. Knowng The Ropes
      13. Endgame

      Album Description

      1988 film score for the Peter Greenaway film, features 13 digitally remastered tracks, packaged in a digipak. Copy Controlled. Virgin. 2004.
      Drowning By Numbers
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        		Drowning By Numbers
        Michael Nyman
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B000FDJ2XI
        Release Date: 2006-06-06

        Tracks:

        1. Trysting Fields
        2. Sheep And Tides
        3. Great Death Game
        4. Drowning By Number 3
        5. Wheelbarrow Walk
        6. Dead Man's Catch
        7. Drowning By Number 2
        8. Bees In Trees
        9. Fish Beach
        10. Wedding Tango
        11. Crematorium Conspiracy
        12. Knowing The Ropes
        13. Endgame

        Album Description

        Digitally remastered version in a standard jewel case of this 1988 film score for the Peter Greenaway film, features 13 tracks. Copy Controlled. Virgin. 2004.
        Drowning By Numbers
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          Michael Nyman
          Manufacturer: EMI/Virgin
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          ASIN: B0001HM4RE
          Release Date: 2004-03-29

          Tracks:

          1. Trysting Fields
          2. Sheep And Tides
          3. Great Death Game
          4. Drowning By Number 3
          5. Wheelbarrow Walk
          6. Dead Man's Catch
          7. Drowning By Number 2
          8. Bees In Trees
          9. Fish Beach
          10. Wedding Tango
          11. Crematorium Conspiracy
          12. Knowing The Ropes
          13. Endgame
          Drowning By Numbers
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            		Drowning By Numbers
            Miss Black America
            Manufacturer: Ruby Slippers
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

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            ASIN: B000BNWNX8
            Release Date: 2005-10-31

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            After a short hiatus the UK's own Miss Black America are back to rock your face off. 'Drowning By Numbers' is the mighty MBA's first single of the forthcoming second album Terminal. Ruby Slippers. 2005.

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