Michael Nyman
Born: 23rd March 1944, Stratford, London
Nationality: English
Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway), and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano. He has written a number of operas, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; Letters, Riddles and Writs; Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs; Facing Goya; Man and Boy: Dada; Love Counts; and Sparkie: Cage and Beyond. He has written six concerti, five string quartets, and many other chamber works, many for his Michael Nyman Band. He is also a performing pianist.
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Iestyn Davies on Michael Nyman and Henry Purcell
9th Apr 2019
The countertenor talks to David about his new album with Fretwork, playing off the juxtaposition of baroque works by Henry Purcell with works by contemporary composer Michael Nyman.
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Popular Works: Nyman
- A Zed and Two Noughts (film score 1985) (4)
- All Imperfect Things (7)
- An Eye for Optical Theory (4)
- Big My Secret (19)
- Candlefire (5)
- Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds (7)
- Debbie (5)
- Deep sleep playing (7)
- Diary Of Love (6)
- Digital Tragedy (7)
- Drowning by Numbers (film score 1988) (4)
- Fish Beach (4)
- Fly Drive (6)
- Franklyn (5)
- If (16)
- In Re Don Giovanni (8)
- Jack (6)
- Lost And Found (9)
- Love (5)
- Nadia (from Wonderland) (4)
- Odessa Beach (4)
- Silver-Fingered fling (10)
- Six Celan Songs (5)
- Songs for Tony (5)
- String Quartet No. 2 (7)
- The attraction of the pedalling ankle (9)
- The Departure (7)
- The Diary of Anne Frank (7)
- The Exchange (5)
- The Heart Asks Pleasure First (40)
- The mood that passes through you (12)
- The Morrow (4)
- The Piano (10)
- The Piano Concerto (6)
- The Schoolroom (from The Diary of Anne Frank) (6)
- Time Lapse (11)
- Trysting Fields (4)
- Where the Bee Dances (9)
- Why (7)
- Yellow Beach (4)
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