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Piano Bliss

Giulio Caccini - Ave Maria

taken from the album THE PIANO SINGS / Music composed and performed by Michael Nyman

'The Piano Sings' was the long-awaited first release on the MN Records label.

The album features music originally recorded for film soundtracks from 1993 to 2003 including Gattaca, Wonderland, The Diary of Anne Frank, End of the Affair, The Claim, Man with a Movie Camera and The Piano. With their more familiar band and orchestral settings removed, the pieces return to a point echoing their origins. Nyman commented "all of my music starts out as piano music – much of it in song form, so the opportunity to get back to that essence appealed to me, hence the decision to make the album". The album deliberately focuses on the lyrical side of Nyman's piano laying, hence the title.

The Piano Sings presents Michael Nyman's most intimate recording to date, neatly encapsulating the qualities that have made his compositions loved by millions of listeners around the world. While the composer's piano playing is a central element of his touring band and a familiar sound to the many people who've bought & loved his albums, this is the first time he has devoted a complete recording to solo piano.

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THE PIANO - The Composers Cut Series - Volume III

Music composed and performed by Michael Nyman

Michael Nyman's score for Jane Campion's 1993 film The Piano is one of the most successful film soundtracks of all time. The film itself won the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival in 1993 and went on to win several Oscars at the 1994 Academy Awards. Holly Hunter's role as Ada the film's central role was that of an elective mute who chose to communicate via her playing. If having the music feature so prominently in a film was unusual, for the music to additionally convey the dialogue of the main character is unique. The soundtrack of the film went on to become a multi million seller. Perhaps surprisingly for music with such strong ties to its original source many of the pieces from The Piano were subsequently used in a variety of other settings in film, television and advertising making it some of the most performed/frequently heard orchestral music of the last twenty years.

The concert suite for The Piano as performed by The Michael Nyman Band also became a staple of the band's concert repertoire and has been performed all over the world with the composer taking the roles of pianist and conductor. It is this expanded form of the soundtrack that Nyman chose to record as his own definitive edition in Abbey Road studios in April 2005. The piano pieces again form a dialogue, though here the dialogue is purely musical between pianist and orchestra rather having the piano pieces act as speech substitute as they did in the film. The resulting album is a wonderful example of film music transformed to a distinctive stand alone concert work.

"The purpose of the Composer's Cut series is to present music from my soundtracks in a state of continuous evolution. As I transferred particular cues from film to concert hall both musical structures changed and performance styles developed, enabling the music, perhaps, to realise its true potential. So these recordings represent the Michael Nyman Band's state-of-performance as of spring 2005." – MN August 2005


The Heart Asks Pleasure First

the opening track from Michael Nyman's self-titled debut 'Band' album. 

The first Michael Nyman Band Album originally released in 1981 and critically acclaimed as Nyman’s groundbreaking record that combined minimalist, experimentalist music and jazz improvisation for the first time, has only ever been available on the rarest of long-since deleted vinyl.

The physical album is beautifully packaged in a 6 panel digipack and includes two limited edition posters - of the original UK and Japanese LP artwork (the poster is of the cover of the Japanese LP sleeve which is a drawing of Michael Nyman by Molly Nyman, Michael's daughter). 

Most of the music on Michael Nyman was material from the early films by Peter Greenaway such as "Bird Anthem" (Act Of God) and "Bird List Song" (The Falls). The album also includes his first concert work for the band, "In Re Don Giovanni" which was released as a single on Les Disques du Crepuscule (home of Cabaret Voltaire, Durutti Column and Josef K amongst others) under the title Mozart. The most groundbreaking track on Michael Nyman, however, is "Waltz in F", a piece Nyman wrote for art students whilst teaching at Trent Polytechnic in 1977, Nyman subsequently commandeering two modern jazz improvisers, Evan Parker and Peter Brotzman, to "destroy" this piece. Ultimately, Parker and Brotzman ended up playing over and around ten separate tracks whilst Nyman and Cunningham mixed in their Waltz.


Bird Anthem

A cello quartet arrangement of the second movement of Vivaldi's Cello Sonata no. 3 in A minor RV43

Vivaldi - Cello Sonata III in a minor - Allegro

Hugh Wolff leads the New England Conservatory Philharmonia in a performance of Beethoven's Egmont Overture. Recorded live in Symphony Hall, Boston April 23, 2014.

Beethoven: Overture to Egmont, op. 84

Few things offer greater clarity in life than change. It provides the wisdom necessary to look behind you and understand things better. Embrace change and grow.

This duet for piano and cello is an improvisation on a theme of change. Piano is live recorded.
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Composition, performance and production:
OLIVER SADIE http://oliversad.ie
Photograph in track art:
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Licensing

Clarity

https://mnrecords.greedbag.com/buy/symphony-no-11-hillsborough-memo-0/ 

Symphony No. 11: Hillsborough Memorial represents the culmination of Michael Nyman's thinking around the tragedies connected with Liverpool Football Club. 25 years after the Hillsborough disaster, he says that he hopes it will make a small but significant contribution to the healing process still necessary for the families of the lost fans.

Trailer for Michael Nyman's Symphony No. 11: Hillsborough Memorial

We Move Lightly

Two pieces by Michael Nyman
From the concert of 2 July 2014 at Carpenter street in Providence

Chris Erway -- electric piano
J. P. A. Falzone -- Rhodes piano, triangle
Brendan Glasson -- Hohner Cembalet, bells
Liz Isenberg -- Wurlitzer piano
Sakiko Mori -- Crumar Roadrunner 2, percussion
Scott Reber -- Casio, percussion
Florence Wallis -- Hohner Pianet

Michael Nyman - Bell Set No 1 (Live)

New track I made and wanted to share with you, nothing more to say, enjoy !

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For3st

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A fiery post-apocalyptic blend of digital hardcore, bursting on red-hot hat rides and lowering yet sensuous vocal spires. One to keep the pressure high in the club and have the crowd moshing like it's DC's straight-edge heyday again.

Physical Therapy - Love Schranz [Sisterjam]

Artist:  Michael Nyman
Song: Memorial
Film:   The Cook,The Theif, His wife and Her Lover


Michael Nyman - Memorial(The Cook,The Theif, His wife and Her Lover)

Nyman/ Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs

'Sometime Like Apes' from 'Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs'

Nyman: Prospero's Books CD2

'Miranda' from 'Prospero's Books'

'The Masque' from 'Prospero's Books'

PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
Recently rediscovered from the archive of Robert Worby, this demo is from the late 1970s and features some previously unreleased Nyman compositions as well as early versions of 'In Re Don Giovanni' and other music that would later be heard in 'Prospero's Books'.
The Campiello Band later became the Michael Nyman Band, who are celebrating their 40th anniversary in 2016.  
Hear the complete Demo tape on Youtube: http://bit.ly/2fqA0Ns

Undated Demo (late 70s)

PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED 'In Re Don Giovanni' from 1970s Demo

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Abel Korzeniowski - Duchess Of Windsor

Abel Korzeniowski - Six Hours

Abel Korzeniowski - Dance For Me Wallis

05 Vessels

Tom Boyd performing live March 27, 2012 at APU.

Gabriel's Oboe

Michael-Nyman-Rochester39s-Farewell(muzofon.com)

source: http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20130323-1-chroniques-monde


Yasmine Hamdan - Hal - حل

Michael Nyman's Official Soundcloud channel