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Michael Laurence Nyman (born 23rd March, 1944 in Stratford, London) is an English composer, pianist, conductor, author, musicologist, photographer and film maker. He composes minimalist music and is known for his film scores, especially for the films of Peter Greenaway and Jane Campion, and he has also written chamber music for different ensembles (often performed by The Michael Nyman Band) and numerous operas.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/39574-Michael-Nyman?limit=250&page=1
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| andrew_temny | Date: Fr, 01.12.2017, 12:02 | Post # 2 |
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Michael Nyman – War Work – Eight Songs with Film (2015)
Label: Not On Lable
Format: CD, MP3
Country: UK
Released: 2015
Genre: Classical
Style: Contemporary, Minimal
Tracklist:
01. The Making of Faces (02:20)
02. Dreaming of Home (02:20)
03. The Engine Turns (03:05)
04. The Effects of Gas (03:21)
05. Song 1 'Urtod' (04:23)
06. Song 2 What's Left of the Soldierman (02:52)
07. Song 3 'Kinder Vor Einem Londoner Armenspeise Haus' (03:40)
08. Song 4 'Haidekampf' (03:31)
09. Puppenkorper (04:07)
10. Picabia's Pigeons (03:39)
11. The Dead Are Sad Enough in Their Eternal Silence (02:31)
12. Playing at Soldiering (03:09)
13. The Mechanical Horse (05:44)
14. A la Pensee Des Absents (02:36)
15. Song 5 'L'adieu du cavalier' (03:26)
16. Song 6 'For Just One Night' (04:23)
17. Song 7 'Louse Hunting' (02:41)
18. Song 8 'Abschied' (05:29)
19. Sing 1 'Urtod (Re-Recording) (04:23)
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Total Time: 01:07:41
Taking poetry from the First World War as his inspiration, Nyman has crafted here an eloquent song cycle to film (“a film essay”, as he describes it), presented in two groups of four songs, each preceded by several instrumental movements. The texts were all written by poets who – with the exception of the English artist-poet, David Bomberg – all sadly lost their lives during the First World War.
The starting point for the music is the title of a series of poems by French writer, Gaston de Ruyter (shot down on 7th October 1918) – ‘Chansons vielles sur d’autre airs’ (‘Old songs to other tunes’). The ‘chansons vielles’ are the poems by English, French, German and Hungarian poets (mostly sung in their original languages) and the ‘autres airs’ are by English, French, German, Austro-Hungarian, Polish and Italian composers of the 17th and 19th centuries.
The film element, edited by Max Pugh, has been designed around footage sourced from French, German and American First World War film archives and the chosen excerpts deliberately focus on material that previous documenters of the First World War have ignored. There is no voice-over so as to allow the potency of the images in combination with the music to take centre stage.
http://www.michaelnyman.com/war-work-8-songs-with-film/
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