Notes and Editorial Reviews
COLLECTIONS is a unique combination of Michael Nyman's work as a composer, filmmaker and photographer. Film 50000 PHOTOS CAN'T BE WRONG A first release combination of film and music. In a single format this film represents Michael's videographic, photographic and musical work. The title originated in a score commissioned by the Great North Run cultural festival in 2007 entitled 50000 Pairs of Feet Can't be Wrong. MUSIC PORTRAIT OF A LABEL Includes bonus track The Coldest Place on Earth. First album release. A compilation of single tracks taken from each of the MN Records albums starting with The Piano Sings in 2005 through to The Glare in 2009. PHOTOGRAPHY CINE OPERA A specially commissioned combination of Michael Nyman's photographic
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output. Made up of photos taken over the last five years, the book is built around photographs taken in 2010 at the Teatro Cine Opera in Mexico City. The building, built in the 1940s, is now in a state of total disrepair but Michael's obsession with the building and the sense of combined beauty and loss, led him to take the name CINE OPERA and use it as the title for the complete collection of his visual images. Read less
Works on This Recording
1.
The Glare: City of Turin by David McAlmont
Performer:
Michael Nyman (),
David McAlmont ()
Conductor:
Michael Nyman
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Michael Nyman Band
Period: Contemporary
Length: 3 Minutes 2 Secs.
2.
Wonderland: Debbie by Michael Nyman
Performer:
Michael Nyman ()
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1999
Length: 3 Minutes 45 Secs.
3.
Man and Boy: Dada: "Scarper!" by Michael Nyman
Performer:
John Graham-Hall (),
Vivian Tierney (),
William Sheldon (),
Michael Nyman ()
Conductor:
Michael Nyman
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Michael Nyman Band
Period: Contemporary
Length: 3 Minutes 28 Secs.
4.
The Libertine: The mistress by Michael Nyman
Performer:
Michael Nyman ()
Conductor:
Michael Nyman
Period: 20th Century
Length: 4 Minutes 46 Secs.
5.
The Draughtsman's Contract: Chasing sheep is best left to shepherds by Michael Nyman
Performer:
Michael Nyman ()
Conductor:
Michael Nyman
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Michael Nyman Band
Period: 20th Century
Length: 5 Minutes 1 Secs.
6.
Prospero's Books: Miranda by Michael Nyman
Performer:
Michael Nyman ()
Conductor:
Michael Nyman
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Michael Nyman Band
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1990; England
Length: 4 Minutes 14 Secs.
7.
The Piano: To the Edge of the Earth by Michael Nyman
Performer:
Michael Nyman ()
Conductor:
Michael Nyman
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Michael Nyman Band
Period: 20th Century
Length: 3 Minutes 58 Secs.
8.
Celan Songs (6): no 3, Psalm by Michael Nyman
Performer:
Michael Nyman (),
Hilary Summers ()
Conductor:
Michael Nyman
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Michael Nyman Band
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1990; England
Length: 3 Minutes 46 Secs.
9.
Acts of Beauty: Life's Chaos by Michael Nyman
Performer:
Michael Nyman (),
Cristina Zavalloni ()
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Sentieri Selvaggi
Period: Contemporary
Written: 2004
Length: 3 Minutes 23 Secs.
10.
The Ogre: Magic Forest / Göering's Hunting Party by Michael Nyman
Performer:
Michael Nyman ()
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Wingates Temperance Band
Written: 1996
Length: 3 Minutes 22 Secs.
11.
Love Counts: "There you are...and that tree" by Michael Nyman
Performer:
Helen [Soprano Vocal] Williams (),
Andrew Slater (),
Michael Nyman ()
Conductor:
Michael Nyman
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Michael Nyman Band
Written: 2005-2006
Length: 5 Minutes 25 Secs.
12.
Prospero's Books: Knowing the Ropes by Michael Nyman
Performer:
Michael Nyman ()
Conductor:
Michael Nyman
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Michael Nyman Band
Period: Modern
Written: 1991; United Kingdom
Length: 6 Minutes 33 Secs.
13.
I Sonetti Lussuriosi: Apri le coscie by Michael Nyman
Performer:
Michael Nyman (),
Marie Angel ()
Conductor:
Michael Nyman
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Michael Nyman Band
Period: Contemporary
Length: 7 Minutes 4 Secs.
14.
MGV: 5th Region by Michael Nyman
Performer:
Michael Nyman ()
Conductor:
Michael Nyman
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Michael Nyman Band
Period: Modern
Written: 1993
Length: 5 Minutes 18 Secs.
15.
Prospero's Books: Come unto these yellow sands by Michael Nyman
Performer:
Nigel Barr (),
Michael Nyman ()
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Motion Trio
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1990; England
Length: 2 Minutes 58 Secs.
16.
The Coldest Place on Earth, song for voice & ensemble by Michael Nyman
Performer:
Michael Nyman (),
David McAlmont ()
Conductor:
Michael Nyman
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Michael Nyman Band
Period: Contemporary
Length: 3 Minutes 46 Secs.
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