Michael Nyman and his music
Ok, let me tell a couple of words about composer, music director, musician and writer Michael Nyman. Full name, Michael Lawrence Nyman; born March 23, 1944, in London, England; son of Mark and Jeannette Nyman; married Aet Toome, May 16, 1970; children: two daughters.
I don’t want to light his movies work, his films appearance and etc. I want to say only about his music. So albums of Michael Nyman:
- The Michael Nyman Songbook, London Records, 1992
- The Convertibility of Lute Strings, Argo, 1993
- For John Cage, Argo, 1993
- Goodbye Frankie, Goodbye Benny, Argo, 1993
- Other recordings include The Draughtsman’s Contract, A Zedand Two Noughts, Drowning by Numbers, The Cook, the Thief, HisWife, and Her Lover, Bell Set Number One, and The Fourth Wall, all Virgin; Decay Music, Obscure; Michael Nyman, Sheet; Ariel Songs: Come and Go; While You Here Do Snoring Lie; Full Fathom Five, I Am an Unusual Thing, and Lorgie Parisienne, all Decca; The Kiss and Other Movements, Caroline; And Do They Do and Zoo Caprices, both That’s Entertainment Records; The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, CBS Masterworks; Out of the Ruins, Silva Screen;Prospero’s Books, String Quartets 1-3, and The Essential Michael Nyman Band, all London.
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Nyman’s first major success came in 1982 with the score to the Greenaway film The Draughtsman’s Contract; his subsequent collaborations with Greenaway on pictures including 1988’s Drowning By Numbers, 1989’s The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, and 1991’s Prospero’s Books remain among his most high-profile works, their notoriety coming at the risk of overshadowing his forays into opera, chamber music, vocal music, and dance scores. The signatures of Nyman’s work include not only his use of propulsive repetition, but also a palette of idiosyncratic instrumental touches — thumping keyboards, “rude” bass clarinets, and baritone saxophones, and extreme high and low octave doublings. Mozart was a central influence in much of his work, including 1976’s In Re Don Giovanni and 1983’s I’ll Stake My Cremona to a Jew’s Trump; Schumann, meanwhile, was the major inspiration behind the acclaimed 1986 chamber opera The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, while Bartok shades 1988’s String Quartet No. 2, commissioned for the Indian dancer and choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh.
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Latest albums of Michael Nyman:
The Very Best Of: Film Music 1980-2001 (CD 1) Year 2001
The Very Best Of: Film Music 1980-2001 (CD 2) Year 2001
The Claim Year 2000
