Product Details
Composer: Michael Nyman
Audio CD (October 19, 1993)
SPARS Code: DDD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Soundtrack
Label: Virgin Records Us
Condition: Used (Good)
Rating: #####
Availability: In Stock
Price: RM23.00
Track Listings
1. To the Edge of the Earth
2. Big My Secret
3. Wild and Distant Shore
4. Heart Asks Pleasure First
5. Here to There
6. Promise
7. Bed of Ferns
8. Fling
9. Scent of Love
10. Deep into the Forest
11. Mood That Passes Through You
12. Lost and Found
13. Embrace
14. Little Impulse
15. Sacrifice
16. I Clipped Your Wing
17. Wounded
18. All Imperfect Things
19. Dreams of a Journey
20. The Heart Asks Pleasure First / The Promise (Edit)
Michael Nyman came of age as a classical composer in the radical London of the late '60s. His work embraces multiple vernaculars (jazz, avant garde, conceptual art) and helped cement the foundation of what came to be known as minimalism. Decades into his career, Nyman's score to Jane Campion's film The Piano made him a star. The movie's themes of colonialism and silence (its protagonist, portrayed by Holly Hunter, cannot speak) were perfectly aligned with his longtime interests in world and ambient music. Horn players assist members of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra in fleshing out Nyman's stately, hymn-like motifs. On the more heavily orchestrated cues, sentimentality wins out over minimalist restraint; the best tracks feature Nyman on solo piano, playing the rudimentary, faux period repertoire of Hunter's character.
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