"MGV (Musique à Grande Vitesse)" commissioned by the Lille Festival, France. The Piano Concerto Kathryn Stott solo piano Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Michael Nyman David McAlmont ... MN Records Ltd 2009. Anne-Marie Minhall writes that Michael Nyman's concerto always brings back haunting memories of the movie, The Piano.
"The Piano Concerto" recording location: Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, 6 & 7 January 1994. MGV Michael Nyman Band Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
A wonderfully powerful and evocative score, The Piano Concerto is based entirely on material selected from the soundtrack for Jane Campion's film The Piano. The Piano is the original soundtrack, on the Virgin Records label, of the 1993 Academy Award-winning film The Piano.The original score was composed by Michael Nyman and is his twentieth album release. The result is a very excellent work designed for performance in symphony concerts and one of the best orchestral works composed late in the 20th century . With lush instrumentations binding classical and new age, the pianist became one of the key film scorers by the 1990s. Michael Nyman David McAlmont ... MN Records Ltd 2009. The Michael Nyman Band, formerly known as the Campiello Band, is a group formed as a street band for a 1976 production of Carlo Goldoni's 1756 play, Il Campiello directed by Bill Bryden at the Old Vic.The band did not wish to break up after the production ended, so its director, Michael Nyman, began composing music for the group to perform, beginning with "In Re Don Giovanni", written in 1977.
Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for The Piano Concerto - Michael Nyman on AllMusic - 1994 - Notwithstanding the rather droll British joke of… The Piano Concerto Kathryn Stott solo piano Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. MGV Michael Nyman Band Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
It is a single movement work in four phases. Nobody expected that Jane Campion's 1993 film, The Piano would be such a huge critical and commercial success at the box office; it made … MNRCD116 MN Records Ltd 2009. McAlmont and Nyman, The Glare. It was premiered on the same concert with MGV, so it is appropriate that the two works should be paired together on disc. MNRCD116 MN Records Ltd 2009.
Michael Nyman: MGV (Musique à Grande Vitesse); The Piano Concerto Michael Nyman / Kathryn Stott Primary Artist, Producer, Photography, Direction, Arranger, Composer, Conductor Michael Nyman piano. One of the things Nyman did with the music from the film was to develop parts of it into a concerto for piano and orchestra. McAlmont and Nyman, The Glare. Three of them feature 18th and 19th century popular Scottish song tunes, which formed the basis of Ada's music in the film. Despite being called a "soundtrack", this is a partial score re-recording, as Nyman himself also performs the piano on the album (whereas the film version is performed by lead actress Holly Hunter).
First performed on 26 September 1993 for the inauguration of the TGV North-European line. In Nyman's The Piano Concerto, the important word is "The": it is an elaboration in Concerto form from the music written by the composer for Jane Campion's movie "The Piano", so you might think of it as "Concerto The Piano". 8 Lust Songs I Sonetti Lussuriosi. The reason I know it was 1998 is because that was the debut year of the audio CD, which I continued to use as a soundtrack for my reading, over the full 3,000-4,000 (whatever it was) pages of that epic cyberspace adventure/thriller: "Naxos (1998) / Michael Nyman / The Piano Concerto / Where the Bee Dances". Find Michael Nyman composition information on AllMusic. 8 Lust Songs I Sonetti Lussuriosi. Michael Nyman piano.
Nobody expected that Jane Campion's 1993 film, The Piano would be such a huge critical and commercial success at the box office; it made …
Anne-Marie Minhall writes that Michael Nyman's concerto always brings back haunting memories of the movie, The Piano.
Notwithstanding the rather droll British joke of the title, and barely skirting a style of Romantic period kitsch, this piece still features surprising harmonic changes and lovely melodies a la Nyman, and retains the post-modern "edge" of his earlier film music.
Style: Contemporary. Michael Nyman – MGV - The Piano Concerto Label: MN Records – MNRCD115 Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered Country: UK Released: 2008 Genre: Classical.