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The Very Best of Michael Nyman - Film Music 1980-2001 | 
| Artist: Michael Nyman
Label: Virgin Records Us
Category: Music
List Price: $25.98
Buy New: $17.97
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 20242
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 11079
UPC: 724381107928
EAN: 0724381107928
ASIN: B00005NDVL
Release Date: November 12, 2001
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Bird List | | • | Chasing Sheep Is Best Left to Shepherds | | • | An Eye for Optical Theory | | • | Homage to Maurice | | • | Angelfish Decay | | • | Time Lapse | | • | Trysting Fields | | • | Wheelbarrow Walk | | • | Knowing the Ropes | | • | Memorial | | • | Skating | | • | Peeking | | • | Abandoning | | • | Skirting | | • | Miranda Previsited | | • | Here to There | | • | The Heart Asks Pleasure First/The Promise | | • | All Imperfect Things | | • | Dreams of a Journey |
Disc 2
| • | Escape | | • | Fly Drive | | • | The Infinite Complexities of Christmas | | • | If - Michael Nyman, Konno, Hachiro | | • | Abel Carries Ephraim | | • | Becoming Jerome/God's Hands | | • | The Morrow | | • | The Other Side | | • | The Departure | | • | Convening the Coven | | • | Stranger at the Window - Michael Nyman, Albarn, Damon | | • | Cannibal Fantasy - Michael Nyman, Albarn, Damon | | • | Molly | | • | Eddie | | • | Dan | | • | Eileen | | • | Sarah Dies | | • | The End of the Affair | | • | The Shootout | | • | The Burning |
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Album Description
This superb import compilation brings together some of the composer's best soundtrack works on two CD's. Includes many tracks from the early Peter Greenway films, the award winning Jane Champion film the The Piano and highly acclaimed films by Michael Winterbottom. Also included are previously unreleased work as well as material from 'The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover', 'Hairdresser's Husband', 'Prospero's Books', & 'Carrington', 'Gattaca', 'End Of The Affair' & much more. EMI 2001 release. Housed in a slipcase.
Album Details
Double Disc Selection of Composer Nyman's Best Film Soundtrack Work which Includes "The Piano", "The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, her Lover", "Prospero's Books","The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, her Lover", "Prospero's Books", "The Draughtsman's Contract","Gattaca" and Many More.
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Best of Michael Nyman January 5, 2007
Laurie P. Byrd (Jacksonville, Fl)
This truly is Michael Nyman's best works over an extensive period of time. This collection shows the range of his compositions and it is beautifully recorded. For any Michael Nyman fan this is a "must have"!
What a couple : Nyman - Greenaway! December 23, 2004
Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The films of Peter Greenaway are the perfect sum of craftsmanship : text , painting , photography , a minimalist script and frenetic exuberance . All the imaginable beauty and the unthinkable ugliness ; the hidden fears of the human being the timeless evilness . Greenaway films are made such a great symphony . You can identify the four movements in every single movie of this original film maker.
The happy joining with Michael Nyman was a very successful encounter . Because Nyman with his fertile creativity makes possible the most intimate motives and depicts with precision the right feeling and the implacable fate of the characters in the play.
From the draughtsman' s contract . to the sinister A zed and two noughts , passing for the cynical Drowning by numbers , the merciless vengeance in The cook , the thief , his wife and her lover and finally Prospero books based in the Tempest of William Shakespeare .
This album is a summation and digest of ten years of progress in the performance of musicv by a composer whom evidently is gifted and identified in his commitment , and joyous enthusiasm..
A Truly Gifted Composer January 27, 2003
eyedea (Chicago, IL)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Michael Nyman first got my attention with his most popular score to date, The Piano. Nyman's music in the film The Piano, I believe, has yet to be surpassed by any piano score to date. An accomplishment very well recieved by the composer himself, who's redone the score over and over again(I would too if I wrote it). Nyman's other works are not too familiar to me but they all sound very good. His work in Gattaca, although, is another one of Nyman's better scores. The score to Wonderland is probably the closes work to The Piano, feeling wise. Very intense and emotional. I give Michael Nyman 5 stars for his 21 years of composing music for film.
 A good overview of his past work February 3, 2002
aston (Homebush, NSW Australia)
11 out of 23 found this review helpful
Welcome to the word of minimalist classical music by Michael Nyman, the composer who has been credited with the birth of the minimalist movement. If you haven't heard of him before, chances is that you have heard his music already, since his compositions do get used in numerous film soundtrack, most notably in , which brought him numerous recognitions. Minimalist music can be quite fickled, you either get it or you don't. It owes its root to the folk music traditions, hence the emphasis is less on technical brilliance and more on the music's emotional impact. In this sense, this collection is a real mix. There are some tracks that are emotionally inspiring, such as 'fly drive' in disc 2, others struggled to make impact on me, but that might have to do with the mood I was in. If you haven't bought his album before, this album is a good start, because it does give you a good overview of his past work. I would also highly recommend soundtrack, which should ease you into the world of Michael Nyman.
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