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He is also a performing pianist
- 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.
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Aug 19, 2021 · While the right hand of the piano in Nyman’s theme is accentuating that beautiful, lyrical melody, the pianist is also tasked with swirling semiquavers (sixteenth notes) that create a mesmerising minimalist texture underneath, and a deep sense of unease.
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.
It is this expanded form of the soundtrack that Nyman chose to record as his own definitive edition in Abbey Road studios in April 2005. The piano pieces again form a dialogue, though here the dialogue is purely musical between pianist and orchestra rather having the piano pieces act as speech substitute as they did in the film.
Jul 30, 2012 · Interviews by Anna Tims. 'Jane locked me in a hotel room with a piano and said she wouldn't let me out until I'd finished' Mon 30 Jul 2012 13.30 EDT. Michael Nyman, composer. Jane Campion...
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Michael Nyman didn’t write the central tune that runs through The Piano - that's actually called 'Bonny winter's noo awa' - but he did compose the rest of the film's excellent score. Released: 1993 Director: Jane Campion Cast: Holly Hunter, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin
Jan 15, 2016 · His unforgettable music for Jane Campion’s The Piano in 1993 sold over three million copies, and in these excerpts from his interview for RBMA Radio, Nyman’s restless musical mind sent him on a journey from the heydays of minimalism and working with Brian Eno to video games and Kenji Eno.
