Nyman - Noises, Sounds & Sweet Air / Bott · Summers · Bostridge

Michael Nyman (Conductor), Dominique Debard (Conductor), Ian Bostridge (Performer), Catherine Bott (Performer), Hilary Summers (Performer), Andrew Findon (Performer), David Roach (Artist), Ensemble Instrumental de Basse-Normandie (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Ian Bostridge, Catherine Bott, Hilary Summers, Andrew Findon
• Conductor: Michael Nyman, Dominique Debard
• Audio CD (May 16, 1995)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B00000814G
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #274,351 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. If by your Art, my dearest father - Catherine Bott

2. Alas, poor Milan! - Ian Bostridge

3. Be't to fly, to swim - Catherine Bott

4. This damned witch Sycorax - Catherine Bott/Hilary Summers

5. The fringed curtains of thine eye - Ian Bostridge

6. There's nothing ill can dwell - Catherine Bott

7. How lush and lusty the grass - Hilary Summers

8. Riches, poverty, and use of service - Catherine Bott/Ian Bostridge

9. Sometime like apes - Ian Bostridge

10. Full many a lady I have eyed - Catherine Bott

11. 'Tis a custom in the afternoon - Ian Bostridge

12. I have made you mad - Catherine Bott

13. You do look, my son, in a moved sort - Catherine Bott/Ian Bostridge

14. At last I left them - Hilary Summers

15. At this hour lie at my mercy - Ian Bostridge

16. Ye elves - Hilary Summers/Ian Bostridge

17. Behold, sir King - Catherine Bott/Ian Bostridge/Hilary Summers

18. Sir, she is mortal - Catherine Bott

19. My tricksy spirit! - Catherine Bott

20. Coragio, bully-monster - Ian Bostridge

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nyman's Masterpiece, July 28, 2001

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Eric Wahl (Bozeman, MT, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nyman - Noises, Sounds & Sweet Air / Bott · Summers · Bostridge (Audio CD)

Recorded a bit before Nyman, in my opinion, fell off the musical relevancy map with so many uninspired film scores, Noises, Sounds, & Sweet Airs (the correct title) may well have been this once-genius composer's last gasp. But what a last gasp! The disc works as a single piece of tightly-woven musical tapestry that cannot be divided up into individual "songs" or movements because it plays Nyman's musical fascinations and obsessions so close to the bone. Some staggeringly sublime moments whoosh and waft and soar from this recording, and as long as I have it to listen to regularly (and Nyman's scores from Greenaway's films) I need nothing else. One of the most exquisite recordings I have ever purchased. How I wish he'd get back to such stuff and forego the pornography of his art, such as it currently is, in so much movie dribble.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars stunning, June 7, 2002

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Ken Braithwaite (inkster, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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Nyman's best, as well as most original and most challenging piece. I didn't like it the first few times I heard it, but after I found my way into the scorte (so to speak) I found it incredibly beautiful. Unlike anything you have ever heard. Minimalist but a very busy "maximal" minimalist.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great CD!, November 11, 2010

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This review is from: Nyman - Noises, Sounds & Sweet Air / Bott · Summers · Bostridge (Audio CD)

I have recently started to listen to Michael Nyman and i wonder what took me so long. He has excellent music and this is one of my favorite besides The Piano (original)