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World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: MNRCD123 (EAN: 5060211140105) | 1 CD | DDD Released in: 2011
- LABEL:
- MN Records
- Subcollection:
- Ensemble
- Composers:
- NYMAN, Michael Laurence
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Interprets:
- ALLAM, Rory (clarinet / bass clarinet) | BALANESCU, Alexander (violin) | BARNARD, Anne (french horn) | BRÖTZMANN, Peter (bass clarinet / tenor saxophone) | GROVE, Ben (guitar / bass guitar) | HARLE, John (soprano saxophone) | HAYLEY, Nick (violin / ) | MITCHELL, Ian (bass clarinet / clarinet) | NYMAN, Michael (piano) | PARKER, Evan (soprano saxophone) | PERRY, Elisabeth (viola / violin) | SAUNDERS, Steve (euphonium / / bass trombone) | SKEAPING, Lucy (voice) | SKEAPING, Roderick (violin / ) | THOMPSON, Keith (saxophone / recorders / / flute) | WOOTTON, Doug (banjo / bass guitar)
- Ensembles:
- Michael Nyman Band
- Other info:
The first Michael Nyman Band Album originally released in 1981
Includes first recording of In Re Don Giovanni
Beautifully packaged in a 6 panel digipack and including two limited edition posters of the the original UK and Japanese LP artwork.
Critically acclaimed as Nyman’s groundbreaking record that combined minimalist, experimentalist music and jazz improvisation for the first time, this album has only ever been available on the rarest of long-since deleted vinyl.
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.
With the Falling Songbirds (Bird Anthem and M-Work)
Evan Parker, soprano saxophone and Peter Brötzmann, bass clarinet and tenor saxophone (Waltz)
Lucy Skeaping, voice (Bird List Song)
Performed by the Michael Nyman Band
Rory Allam clarinet and bass clarinet
Alexander Balanescu violin
Anne Barnard french horn
Ben Grove guitar and bass guitar
John Harle soprano saxophone
Nick Hayley rebec and violin
Ian Mitchell clarinets and bass clarinet
Michael Nyman keyboards
Elisabeth Perry violin and viola
Steve Saunders bass trombone, tuba and euphonium
Roderick Skeaping rebec and violins
Keith Thompson flutes, piccolo, recorders and saxophones
Doug Wootton banjo and bass guitar
| NYMAN, Michael Laurence (b. 1944) | | | 1. | Bird Anthem | 2:37 | | | 2. | In Re Don Giovanni | 2:48 | | | 3. | Initial Treat/Secondary Treat | 4:29 | | | 4. | Waltz | 5:55 | | | 5. | Bird List Song | 4:19 | | | 6. | M-Work | 21:09 | |
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