Description
Michael Nyman: Le Cuisinier, Le Voleur, Sa Femme Et Son Amant - Peter Greenaway / Virgin Audio CD 1995
UPC 724384025526
Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway), and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano. He has written a number of operas, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; Letters, Riddles and Writs; Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs; Facing Goya; Man and Boy: Dada; Love Counts; and Sparkie: Cage and Beyond. He has written six concerti, five string quartets, and many other chamber works, many for his Michael Nyman Band. He is also a performing pianist. Nyman prefers to write opera over other forms of music.
| Label: | Virgin – 724384025526 |
|---|---|
| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | France |
| Released: |
1995 |
| Genre: | Classical |
| Style: | Contemporary |
Tracklist:
| 1 | Memorial | 12:07 | |
| 2 | Miserere Paraphrase | 5:43 | |
| 3 | Book Depository | 5:41 | |
| 4 | Coupling | 5:17 | |
| 5 |
Miserere |
| 11:32 |
- Alto Saxophone – David Roach (tracks: 1, 3, 4)
- Cello – Tony Hinnigan (tracks: 1, 3, 4)
- Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – David Fuest (tracks: 1, 3, 4)
- Composed By, Conductor – Michael Nyman
- Double Bass – Chris Lawrence* (tracks: 1, 3, 4)
- Engineer – Michael J. Dutton
- Engineer [Assistant] – Dillon Gallagher (tracks: 1 to 4)
- Graphics [Graphism] – Eve Ramboz
- Liner Notes – Michael Nyman
- Liner Notes [Translated By] – Dominique Taffin-Jouhaud
- Performer – The Michael Nyman Band (tracks: 1, 3, 4)
- Piano – Michael Nyman (tracks: 1 to 4)
- Producer, Art Direction – David Cunningham
- Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone – John Harle (tracks: 1, 3, 4)
- Soprano Vocals – Sarah Leonard (tracks: 1, 3, 4)
- Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Flute – Andrew Findon (tracks: 1, 3, 4)
- Trombone – David Stewart* (tracks: 1, 3, 4)
- Trumpet – Graham Ashton (tracks: 1, 3, 4)
- Violin – Alexander Balanescu (tracks: 1 to 4), Elisabeth Perry (tracks: 1, 3, 4)
- Violin, Violin [Alto] – Jonathan Carney (tracks: 1, 3, 4)
