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ID: MNRCD123
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Ensemble
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 |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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ID: MNRCD123
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Ensemble
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 |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD175
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: SymphonyTwo of Knussen's major works of the 1970s - Symphony No.2, a song cycle on texts of Georg Trakl and Sylvia Plath, and Symphony No. 3, a symphonic poem about Shakespeare's Ophelia - are coupled with Coursing, Ophelia Dances and other works.
This release on the NMC mid-price re-issue label Ancora was previously issued on Unicorn-Kanchana Records.
Composer/conductor Oliver Knussen celebrates his 60th birthday this year.
Knussen's Ophelia Dances will be performed by BCMG at his 60th birthday concert held at the CBSO Centre (Birmingham, UK)
A new release on NMC of works by Knussen is released this autumn, featuring BCMG, Ryan Wigglesworth and soprano Claire Booth.
Knussen started composing at the age of 6 and aged 15 he stepped in to conduct his symphony's première at the Royal Festival Hall, London in 1968 after István Kertész fell ill. After that debut, Daniel Barenboim asked him to conduct the work's first two movements in New York a week later.
This is a substantial sampler of Oliver Knussen's output in the 1970s. The two major works are the luminous Second Symphony, which takes the form of a 17-minute song cycle to texts of Georg Trakl and Sylvia Plath and Symphony No. 3, a symphonic poem about Shakespeare's Ophelia. |
| 22.00 eur Buy |
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