Title: Michael Nyman - The Piano Theme (Heart Asks Pleasure First)
Description: I have always found Nyman's Theme from The Piano an enchanting melody, with a simple yet powerful feeling to it. It is familiar somehow, the melody and chords are inspired by ancient music which has been passed down from our ancestors, deep within our conciousness In this improvised interpretation I tried to bring out a more hypnotic emotion by using repetitive and flowing phrases. I hope you enjoy! visit my webpage - http://www.joolsscott.co.uk You can download my most recent 10 track piano album for $4 at http://payloadz.com/go/sip?id=467446 Michael Laurence Nyman (born March 23, 1944, London) is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, perhaps best known for the many scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway. Nyman studied music composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 1969, he provided the libretto for Harrison Birtwistle's opera, Down by the Greenwood Side and directed the short film Love Love Love before settling into music criticism, where he is generally acknowledged to have been the first to apply the term "minimalism" to music (in a 1968 article in The Spectator magazine about the English composer Cornelius Cardew). He wrote introductions for George Frideric Handel's Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 and conducted the most important interview with George Brecht in 1976. Nyman, who had studied with the noted Baroque music scholar Thurston Dart at King's College London, drew frequently on early music sources in his scores for Greenaway's films: Henry Purcell in The Draughtsman's Contract and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (which included Memorial and Miserere Paraphrase), Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber in A Zed and Two Noughts, Mozart in Drowning by Numbers, and John Dowland in Prospero's Books. Nyman's popularity increased significantly after he wrote the score to Jane Campion's award-winning 1993 film The Piano. The album became a classical music best-seller. Although Nyman's score was central to the movie, he did not receive an Academy Award nomination despite being nominated for both a British Academy Award and a Golden Globe. He has scored numerous other films, the majority of them art films from Europe. His few forays into Hollywood composing have been Gattaca, Ravenous (with musician Damon Albarn), and The End of the Affair. He wrote settings to various texts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for "Letters, Riddles, and Writs", part of Not Mozart. He has also produced a soundtrack for the silent film Man with the Movie Camera. opera Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs (1987), for soprano, alto, tenor and instrumental ensemble, ballet La Princesse de Milan; Ariel Songs (1990) for soprano and band; MGV (Musique à Grande Vitesse) (1993) for band and orchestra; concertos for saxophone, piano (based on The Piano score), violin, harpsichord, trombone, and saxophone & cello recorded by John Harle and Julian Lloyd Webber; the opera The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1986), based on a case-study by Oliver Sacks; and four string quartets. Michael Nyman Band, Carlo Goldoni's Il Campiello. rebecs and shawms saxophone Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Catalan, Spanish and French John Cage Portsmouth Sinfonia World's Worst Orchestra Bridge Over Troubled Waters Martin Lewis produced 20 Classic Rock Classics Sinfonia Social Orchestra Stephen Foster. Ravenous Peter Greenaway's The Falls Fourth Wall Hands To Take. Ada McGrath Live Earth in Japan. 古典钢琴演奏家 音乐会 古典的なピアノ 音楽

Title: Michael Nyman-Miranda
Description: Michael Nyman Miranda

Title: THE CLAIM 'The Exchange' - Michael Nyman (HQ)
Description: The Claim is a British Western/romance film directed by Michael Winterbottom in 2000. The screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce is loosely based on the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. The original music score is composed by Michael Nyman. It was filmed in the vicinity of Calgary, Alberta. In 1867, Daniel Dillon is an Irish immigrant who settled in California during the Gold Rush of '49 and has done quite well for himself. Dillon owns nearly every business of consequence in the town of Kingdom Come; if someone wants to dig for gold, rent a room, open a bank account, or even order a drink, they have to go to Dillon to do it. One of the few profitable enterprises in town that he doesn't own is the brothel, which is operated by Lucia, Dillon's Portuguese lover. This cosy arrangement is disturbed by the arrival of a coachload of travellers. Donald Dalglish is a surveyor with the Central Pacific Railroad, which wants to put a train either through Kingdom Come, or somewhere in the vicinity. He is here to decide the route. Dillon is anxious to ensure that the railway line is routed through "his" town, as this will bring more business. Arriving in town with Dalglish are two women, the beautiful but ailing Elena Burn and her lovely teenage daughter Hope; their presence is deeply troubling for Dillon, for they are the keys to a dark secret Dillon has kept from the people of Kingdom Come for nearly twenty years. Like Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge, he had "sold" them 20 or so years earlier, in his case to a disillusioned prospector named Burn: Burn has died, and Elena is in need of money. (A major departure from "The Mayor of Casterbridge" is that Hope is indeed Dillon's daughter.) Much of the emotional interest in the film revolves around Dalglish's ambivalent relations with Lucia (ditched by Dillon when his wife re-appears) and Hope, who is eminently nubile and altogether "a better class of person". The death of Elena coincides with the decision to route the railway some distance from the town. Dillon is thus faced with a double blow. Special thanks to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Title: The Promise - Michael Nyman
Description: The heart asks the pleasure first From the movie 'The Piano'

Title: Michael Nyman: The Morrow - Floraleda Sacchi, harp
Description: Flora performs on harp The Morrow (from Gattaca motion picture soundtrack) by Michael Nyman

Title: Dreams of a Journey (Michael Nyman)
Description: The Piano / Lezioni di Piano SOUNDTRACK

Title: AlxEd - Full Metal Alchemist - Planetarium - Doujinshi Yaoi
Description: Warning: Doujinshi Yaoi- BoyxBoy love. If you don't like, don't watch it. Manga: Full Metal Alchemist Title "Planetarium" Credits: There are the respective authors songs are: 1)"Gaia" from Escaflowne OST Movie 2)"The Embrace" 3)"Little Impulse" 4)"The Promise" from Michael Nyman 5)"The Hurt" from Escaflowne OST Movie

Title: The Piano Concerto - The Hut
Description: Michael Nyman The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Peter Lawson;solo piano Johnathan Carney;conductor No copyright infringement intended

Title: Michael Nyman - Big my secret -The Piano
Description: Michael Nyman's Big my secret composition. This one is part of the soundtrack of the Jane Campion's film "The piano". Palme d'Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festiva

Title: Michael Nyman Band - Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds
Description: This is a recording of a live performance of "Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds" from "The Draughtsman's Contract".

Title: A Zed and Two Noughts
Description: Images by Peter Greenaway music by Michael Nyman arranged and edited by Kostas Kakouris performed by The Later Life live in Griparion cultural centre June 2007 www.myspace.com/laterlife www.myspace.com/kostaskakouris

Title: The Piano - Michael Nyman
Description: The heart asks pleasure first. Never really been sure how to finish this so I tagged something on...

Title: The Piano - Michael Nyman (by Rob Greaves)
Description: Rob playing his shortened version of Michael Nyman's music from The Piano. Playing without sheet music (by ear) after hearing it on TV

Title: Michael Nyman - The Piano Concerto
Description: Some images made by me... The video was made just to broadcast the wonderful and sublime Music. A concert in 1993, Michael Nyman and the Royal Liverpool Philarmonic Orchestra. My gallery on deviantART www.silverdreamer1889.deviantart.com DEDICATO A JACK CHE MI HA PASSATO QUESTA SPLENDIDA MUSICA!!! ^__^ merci beaucoup!

Title: Farrell Dyde/Michael Nyman: Koan I (1977/82)
Description: FD created & performed this solo at DTW. He added his own voice and improvised remarks to an early Nyman minimalist score.