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Various Artists - Stars of Classical (CD)
Various Artists, Emmerich Kalman/Franz Lehar/Johann Strauss II, Francesco Sartori, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Leonard Cohen, …
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Includes composer's notes, biography, black & white film photos and original compositions for solos piano from Michael Nyman: Big My Secret,The Mood That Passes Through You, Deep Sleep Playing, Silver-Fingered Fling, The Attraction of the Pedalling Ankle, Heart Asks Pleasure First.
This is the first book which deals with the school of American
repetitive music, also know as minimal music. The early work of La
Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass is discussed
in the context of traditional Western music. Minimal music thus
emerges as the latest stage in a development leading from
Schoenberg, Webern, Stockhausen and Cage. In considering the
philosophical thinking of Deleuze and Lyotard, the representatives
of the so-called French ' libidinal philosophy', and of Adorno, the
author examines the degree to which the 'ecstatic dimension' is
present in this music or is even consciously introduced to it.
Peter Greenaway's surreal story has twin brothers (Brian and Eric
Deacon), both zoologists, re-examining the meaning of life after a
car accident involving a swan claims the lives of their wives. They
study the decomposition of several animals with time-lapse
photography, plot to liberate zoo animals, and begin a
menage-a-trois with the one-legged woman who survived the crash.
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Drowning By Numbers (Blu-ray disc)
Bryan Pringle, Janine Duvitski, Juliet Stevenson, Paul Mooney, Joan Plowright, …
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Peter Greenaway directs this black comedy which revolves around
three generations of women called Cissie Colpitts (Joan Plowright,
Juliet Stevenson and Joely Richardson). When each of the women
decides to drown their husband, they enlist the assistance of
Coroner Madgett (Bernard Hill), who finds his job seriously
compromised as a result. Meanwhile, Madgett's adolescent son Smut
plays obscure folk games and becomes obsessed with collecting
animal corpses.
Michael Nyman's piano music has struck a chord with audiences
across the world and this anthology brings together his most
successful and best-loved pieces in one superb volume. All the
tracks features in this work are transcribed and restored to solo
piano, including previously unpublished works for Nyman's recent CD
- "The Piano Sings".
(Music Sales America). Available for the first time for solo piano,
here are four fabulous arrangements from the motion-picture
soundtrack of The Piano plus the two favorite themes from the
award-winning film by Jane Campion. This is another wonderfully
presented edition with stills from the film, an origianl manuscript
sketch and note from Nyman to lead actress Holly Hunter, who
performs the pieces herself in the film.
Live performance and documentary featuring British composer Michael
Nyman. In 'Michael Nyman in Concert' The Michael Nyman Band perform
'The Musicologist Scores' and other compositions at Studio Halle.
'Michael Nyman: Composer in Progress', directed by Silvia Beck,
offers a portrait of Nyman, who shares his thoughts and opinions,
offering an insight into his personal life.
Dziga Vertov's groundbreaking film accompanied by a new,
specially-written score by composer Michael Nyman. Vertov's film is
widely acknowledged as one of the landmark achievements of early
modern cinema; its use of such radical effects as dissolves, split
screens, slow motion, superimpositions and freeze frames have made
for one of the most enduring representations of early 20th century
city life.
Michael Nyman's book is a first-hand account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970. First published in 1974, it has remained the classic text on a significant form of music making and composing that developed alongside, and partly in opposition to, the postwar modernist tradition of composers such as Boulez, Berio, or Stockhausen. The experimentalist par excellence was John Cage whose legendary 4' 33'' consists of four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence to be performed on any instrument. Such pieces have a conceptual rather than purely musical starting point and radically challenge conventional notions of the musical work. Nyman's book traces the revolutionary attitudes that were developed toward concepts of time, space, sound, and composer/performer responsibility. It was within the experimental tradition that the seeds of musical minimalism were sown and the book contains reference to the early works of Reich, Riley, Young, and Glass. This second edition contains a new Foreword, an updated discography, and a historical overview by the author.
Two more short films from Peter Greenaway. In 'Vertical Falls
Remake' academics argue about the work of Tulse Luper while 'The
Falls' is divided into 92 biographies of people who have all been
affected by the 'VUE', the Violent Unknown Event and a phenomenom
in some way connected with birds and flying.
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Erasing David (DVD)
Ashley Jones, Michael Nyman; Directed by David Bond, Melinda McDougall
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Documentary exploring the role and implications of surveillance in
British society. The UK has become one of the most intrusive
surveillance states in the world. When director David Bond decides
to find out how much private companies and the government really
know about him by attempting to 'disappear', he finds himself on a
chilling journey that forces him to contemplate the meaning of
privacy - and the loss of it.
2004 saw the celebratory release of the special 'Nyman at 60'
digipak editions of six of his most popular soundtracks. With stock
of these limited editions now depleted, the albums will be made
available as jewel case (remastered) editions. To begin with, his
most successful soundtrack 'The Piano' jewel case version will
still include the extra track 'The Heart Asks Pleasure First / The
Promise (Edit).' EMI.
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Various Artists - Michael Nyman: Piano (CD)
Michael Nyman, Kathryn Stott, Michael Nyman Band, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Nyman Orchestra
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