Piano (Music By Michael Nyman)

Soundtrack

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Format: CD Album

Released: Tue 19 Oct 1993

Catalogue Number: 7882742

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Description:
Michael Nyman came of age as a classical composer in the radical London of the late '60s. His work embraces multiple vernaculars (jazz, avant garde, conceptual art) and helped cement the foundation of what came to be known as minimalism. Decades into his career, Nyman's score to Jane Campion's film The Piano made him a star. The movie's themes of colonialism and silence (its protagonist, portrayed by Holly Hunter, cannot speak) were perfectly aligned with his longtime interests in world and ambient music. Horn players assist members of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra in fleshing out Nyman's stately, hymn-like motifs. On the more heavily orchestrated cues, sentimentality wins out over minimalist restraint; the best tracks feature Nyman on solo piano, playing the rudimentary, faux period repertoire of Hunter's character.

Details:

Distributor: EMI
Producer: Michael Nyman
Sound Engineer: Michael J.Dutton
Discs: 1
Release Year: 1994
Running Time: 117 minutes

Track Listing:

1.	To the Edge of the Earth
2.	Big My Secret
3.	A Wild and Distant Shore
4.	The Heart Asks Pleasure First
5.	Here to There
6.	The Promise
7.	A Bed of Ferns
8.	The Fling
9.	The Scent of Love
10.	Deep Into the Forest
11.	The Mood That Passes Through You
12.	Lost and Found
13.	The Embrace
14.	Little Impulse
15.	The Sacrifice
16.	I Clipped Your Wing
17.	The Wounded
18.	All Imperfect Things
19.	Dreams of a Journey