The Very Best of Michael Nyman - Film Music 1980-2001 [Soundtrack, Import]

Michael Nyman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 12, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Soundtrack, Import
• Label: EMI Europe Generic
• ASIN: B00005NDVL
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128,826 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Bird List

2. Chasing Sheep Is Best Left to Shepherds

3. An Eye for Optical Theory

4. Homage to Maurice

5. Angelfish Decay

6. Time Lapse

7. Trysting Fields

8. Wheelbarrow Walk

9. Knowing the Ropes

10. Memorial

See all 19 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Escape

2. Fly Drive

3. The Infinite Complexities of Christmas

4. If

5. Abel Carries Ephraim

6. Becoming Jerome/God's Hands

7. The Morrow

8. The Other Side

9. The Departure

10. Convening the Coven

See all 20 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Truly Gifted Composer, January 26, 2003

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eyedea "*~*Evening Symphony*~*" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Very Best of Michael Nyman - Film Music 1980-2001 (Audio CD)

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.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of Michael Nyman, January 5, 2007

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Laurie P. Byrd (Jacksonville, Fl) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Very Best of Michael Nyman - Film Music 1980-2001 (Audio CD)

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"!

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a couple : Nyman - Greenaway!, December 23, 2004

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Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Very Best of Michael Nyman - Film Music 1980-2001 (Audio CD)

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..