Wonderland 1999 Film Score [SOUNDTRACK]

Michael Nyman

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 6, 1999)
• Original Release Date: July 18, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: EMI Europe Generic
• ASIN: B00002DEBI
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #151,098 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AH-HA!, February 12, 2000

By	"azzo" (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

Just when you thought that it might just be impossible to compose a score more beautiful than that of THE PIANO, Michael Nyman puts pen and calculator to paper yet again, and outmaneuvers his own work.

WONDERLAND, may be his most stunning piece yet, and when juxstaposed with the wrenching images in Michael Winterbottom's emotionally resonant picture, the cold, cold name of Peter Greenway, slowly, (and, for me, thankfully), becomes a distant memory.

Please...see the film. Listen to the music. Or don't. It's up to you. I liked them, though.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nyman's Sublime Wonderland, September 24, 2001

By	Pablo Iglesias Alvarez "Glossu" (Mexico City, D.F. Mexico) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The score written by Michael Nyman for Michael Winterbottom's film "Wonderland" is one of the most simple and yet sublime pieces I've ever heard. It is incredible the way that Nyman expresses such intense emotions from seemingly so simple and probably unpromising materials.

This is mature Nyman at his best, far from the dazzling neo-baroque exercises for the Greenaway films (great they were indeed), the british composer writes now in a less spectacular manner but defintively in a deeper and more senstitive way. His orchestrations are here delightfully thin, almost ethereal (relying mostly on strings), while some piano solo's become pristine poetry.

With Wonderland Nyman has achievd beauty in simplicity, with music that goes, rather than to our ears ... straight to our hearts.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, June 14, 2001

By A Customer

I have three Nyman CDs (Gattaca, Drowning by Numbers, and this one) and find them to be uniformly amazing. All of these CDs delight me with their lushness and unparalleled evocativeness. In Gattaca you can hear fiery determination. In Drowning by Numbers you can hear overwhelming desperation and sorrow interspersed with joyful innocence. In this CD you hear a wistful..sometimes restless.. yearning. Don't buy this CD if you dislike subtleties: you will find not only that the main themes are repeated in only moderately different settings, but also that variations within songs are very subtle (eg, there are perhaps only three loud crescendos on the entire CD). Do buy this CD if you enjoy truly beautiful and evocative music.