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The Cinematic Orchestra - Arrival Of The Birds & Transformation (Edited)

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


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The Twins (Prague)

November

Embers

The Cinematic Orchestra - Arrival Of The Birds

Unsettled Minds is a sweeping collection of orchestral adaptations that transform Beethoven’s Appassionata themes and beyond into symphonic meditations for restless souls. Each movement embraces turbulence and tenderness: brooding strings hover on the edge of silence, woodwinds whisper with searching fragility, and brass resound with fateful grandeur. Expanding Beethoven’s architecture into Rachmaninoff-like romantic musings of lush textures and cinematic dramas that capture the beauty and unease of an unsettled mind — where moments of stillness are broken by storms of emotion, and melodies carry both torment and transcendence. 

Performed in the imagined voice of Europe’s greatest orchestras, this album is an invitation into a dream state where longing, unrest, and fragile nobility collide.

3. Callings

The Departure theme from HBO series The Leftovers, composed by Max Richter in 2014.

Live video: https://youtu.be/owkJzOgl-iE

The instrument is a Kawai VPC1 controlling a Nord Stage 2 using a sampled Yamaha C7 grand piano, with some delay.

Video

Max Richter - The Departure (The Leftovers) [piano cover w/ delay]

Moonlight

Nicholas Britell-The Middle Of The World

You - Dodie Clark

Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out (Cover)

hope you do the right thing

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fav edit by yotsu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGqPlzvnBuI

Biosphere -  Nothing Like Sipping On A Cup Of Tea

My transcription/performance of this beautiful filmscore moment.

American Beauty - Any Other Name by Thomas Newman

Thomas Newman - Any other name

Mogwai - Auto Rock

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و عرف معني التسامي 
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