2008년 08월 01일
Michael Nyman - Flugel and Piano(1991)
Michael Nyman - Flugel and Piano
Composed 1991 Duration 7:20
Performers Graham Ashton : Trumpet, John Lenehan : Piano
Album The Contemporary Trumpet
Record Label virgin Classic
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.
Among Nyman's better known non-film works are the opera Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs (1987), for soprano, alto, tenor and instrumental ensemble (based on Nyman's score for the 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. Recently, he produced a new opera on the subject of cloning on a libretto by Victoria Hardie titled Facing Goya, an expansion of their one-act opera Vital Statistics. The lead, a widowed art banker, is written for contralto and the role was first created by Hilary Summers. His newest opera is titled Man and Boy: Dada, on a libretto by Michael Hastings.
On children's television shows, he has created the music for Katie and Orbie and Titch.
Michael NymanMany of Nyman's works are written for his own ensemble, the Michael Nyman Band, a group formed for a 1976 production of Carlo Goldoni's Il Campiello. Originally made up of old instruments such as rebecs and shawms alongside more modern instruments like the saxophone in order to produce as loud a sound as possible without amplification, it later switched to a fully amplified lineup of string quartet, three saxophones, trumpet, horn, bass trombone, bass guitar and piano. This line up has been variously altered and augmented for some works.
Nyman also published an influential book in 1974 on experimental music called Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Catalan, Spanish and French translations), which explored the influence of John Cage on classical composers. In the 1970s, Nyman was a member of the infamous Portsmouth Sinfonia — the self-described World's Worst Orchestra — playing on their recordings and in their concerts. He was the featured pianist on the orchestra's recording of Bridge Over Troubled Waters on the Martin Lewis-produced 20 Classic Rock Classics album on which the Sinfonia gave their unique interpretations to the pop and rock repertoire of the 1950s-1970s. Nyman created a similar group called Foster's Social Orchestra, which specialized in the work of Stephen Foster. One of their tracks appeared in the film Ravenous and an additional track, not used in the film, appeared on the soundtrack album.
He has also recorded pop music, with the Flying Lizards; a version of his Bird List from the soundtrack to Peter Greenaway's The Falls appears on their album Fourth Wall under the title Hands To Take.
On 7 July 2007 Nyman performed at Live Earth in Japan.
Works
1974 - Bell Set No. 1 (multiple metal percussion)
1976 - 1-100 (4-6 pianos)
1976 - Waltz in F (variable)
1977 - In Re Don Giovanni (ensemble)
1978 - The Otherwise Very Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz (multiple pianos)
1979 - 'The Masterwork' Award-Winning Fish-Knife (ensemble)
1980 - A Neat Slice of Time (choir)
1981 - Think Slow, Act Fast (ensemble)
1981 - Five Orchestral Pieces for Opus Tree (band*) (based on Anton Webern's Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 10)
1981 - M-Work (band)
1981 - 2 Violins
1982 - Four Saxes (Real Slow Drag) (saxophone quartet)
1983 - Love is Certainly, at Least Alphabetically Speaking (soprano and band)
1983 - A Handsome, Smooth, Sweet, Smart, Clear Stroke: Or Else Play Not At All (orchestra)
1983 - Time's Up (chamber ensemble)
1983 - I'll Stake My Cremona to a Jew's Trump (electric violin and viola, both players also simultaneously singing)
1984 - The Abbess of Andouillets (choir)Time Lapse(Orchestra)
1985 - Nose-List Song (soprano and orchestra) [this and the above two works are from an unfinished opera setting of Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, which Nyman has repeatedly cited as his all-time favorite book]
1985 - Child's Play (2 violins; harpsichord)
1985 - String Quartet No. 1
1986 - Taking a Line for a Second Walk (for orchestra or piano duet)
1986 - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera; libretto by Christopher Rawlence; adapted from the Oliver Sacks case study by Nyman, Rawlence, and Michael Morris)
1986 - And Do They Do (modern dance, 1986)
1987 - Vital Statistics (opera; libretto by Victoria Hardie)
1988 - String Quartet No. 2
1989 - Out of the Ruins (choir)
1989 - La Traversée de Paris (soprano and band)
1989 - The Fall of Icarus (band)
1989 - L'Orgie Parisienne Arthur Rimbaud setting (soprano or mezzo soprano and orchestra)
1990 - Shaping the Curve (soprano saxophone, string quartet or piano)
1990 - Six Celan Songs (contralto and orchestra)
1990 - Polish Love Song (soprano and piano)
1990 - String Quartet No. 3
1991 - The Michael Nyman Songbook A collection of songs based on texts by Paul Celan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Shakespeare, and Arthur Rimbaud and recorded with vocalist Ute Lemper.
1991 - Where the Bee Dances (soprano saxophone and orchestra)
1991 - Fluegelhorn and Piano
1992 - Time Will Pronounce (violin, cello, and piano)
1992 - For John Cage (brass ensemble)
1992 - Self-Laudatory Hymn of Inanna and Her Omnipotence (alto and string orchestra or countertenor and viol consort)
1992 - The Convertibility of Lute Strings (solo harpsichord)
1992 - Anne de Lucy Songs (soprano and piano)
1992 - The Upside-Down Violin (orchestra/ensemble)
1993 - MGV: Musique à grande vitesse (band and orchestra)
1993 - The Piano Concerto (piano and orchestra)
1993 - Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs (1993; opera-ballet setting William Shakespeare's The Tempest)
1993 - Yamamoto Perpetuo (violin solo)
1993 - Songs for Tony (saxophone quartet)
1994 - To Morrow (soprano or soprano saxophone, organ)
1994 - Three Quartets (ensemble)
1994 - Concerto for Trombone (trombone, orchestra, and steel filing cabinets)
1995 - String Quartet No. 4
1995 - Tango for Tim (In memoriam Tom Suster) (harpsichord)
1995 - The Waltz Song (unison voices)
1995 - Viola and Piano
1995 - Grounded (mezzo-soprano, saxophones, violin, piano)
1995 - HRT [High Rise Terminal] (chamber ensemble)
1995 - Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings
1995 - Double Concerto for Saxophone and Cello (saxophone, cello, and orchestra)
1996 - After Extra Time (ensemble)
1997 - Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks (orchestra)
1997 - The Promise (piano)
1998 - Cycle of Disquietude (Coisas, Vozes, Lettras) (soprano, mezzo-soprano, and band)
1998 - Orfeu (band)
1998 - De Granada A La Luna (band)
1999 - The Comissar Vanishes (band)
2000 - Facing Goya (opera; libretto by Victoria Hardie)
2001 - a dance he little thinks of (orchestra)
2003 - Violin Concerto (violin and orchestra)
2003 - Man and Boy: Dada (opera)
2006 - gdm for Marimba and Orchestra (concerto)
2007 - A Handshake in the Dark (choral piece with orchestra; text by Jamal Jumá [world premiere 8 March 2007, Barbican, London, performed by the BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, John Storgards conducting])
2007 - Interlude in C (expansion of a theme from The Libertine for Accent07 touring ensemble)
2007 - Love Counts opera
2007 - Eight Lust Songs song cycle
*originally recorded by Nyman, Ned Sublette, Susan Krongold, Barbara Benary, Jon Gibson, Richard Cohen, Virgil Blackwell, Peter Zummo, and Peter Gordon at The Kitchen, and intended for Peter Greenaway's short film, The Tree.
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.
Among Nyman's better known non-film works are the opera Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs (1987), for soprano, alto, tenor and instrumental ensemble (based on Nyman's score for the 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. Recently, he produced a new opera on the subject of cloning on a libretto by Victoria Hardie titled Facing Goya, an expansion of their one-act opera Vital Statistics. The lead, a widowed art banker, is written for contralto and the role was first created by Hilary Summers. His newest opera is titled Man and Boy: Dada, on a libretto by Michael Hastings.
On children's television shows, he has created the music for Katie and Orbie and Titch.
Michael NymanMany of Nyman's works are written for his own ensemble, the Michael Nyman Band, a group formed for a 1976 production of Carlo Goldoni's Il Campiello. Originally made up of old instruments such as rebecs and shawms alongside more modern instruments like the saxophone in order to produce as loud a sound as possible without amplification, it later switched to a fully amplified lineup of string quartet, three saxophones, trumpet, horn, bass trombone, bass guitar and piano. This line up has been variously altered and augmented for some works.
Nyman also published an influential book in 1974 on experimental music called Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Catalan, Spanish and French translations), which explored the influence of John Cage on classical composers. In the 1970s, Nyman was a member of the infamous Portsmouth Sinfonia — the self-described World's Worst Orchestra — playing on their recordings and in their concerts. He was the featured pianist on the orchestra's recording of Bridge Over Troubled Waters on the Martin Lewis-produced 20 Classic Rock Classics album on which the Sinfonia gave their unique interpretations to the pop and rock repertoire of the 1950s-1970s. Nyman created a similar group called Foster's Social Orchestra, which specialized in the work of Stephen Foster. One of their tracks appeared in the film Ravenous and an additional track, not used in the film, appeared on the soundtrack album.
He has also recorded pop music, with the Flying Lizards; a version of his Bird List from the soundtrack to Peter Greenaway's The Falls appears on their album Fourth Wall under the title Hands To Take.
On 7 July 2007 Nyman performed at Live Earth in Japan.
Works
1974 - Bell Set No. 1 (multiple metal percussion)
1976 - 1-100 (4-6 pianos)
1976 - Waltz in F (variable)
1977 - In Re Don Giovanni (ensemble)
1978 - The Otherwise Very Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz (multiple pianos)
1979 - 'The Masterwork' Award-Winning Fish-Knife (ensemble)
1980 - A Neat Slice of Time (choir)
1981 - Think Slow, Act Fast (ensemble)
1981 - Five Orchestral Pieces for Opus Tree (band*) (based on Anton Webern's Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 10)
1981 - M-Work (band)
1981 - 2 Violins
1982 - Four Saxes (Real Slow Drag) (saxophone quartet)
1983 - Love is Certainly, at Least Alphabetically Speaking (soprano and band)
1983 - A Handsome, Smooth, Sweet, Smart, Clear Stroke: Or Else Play Not At All (orchestra)
1983 - Time's Up (chamber ensemble)
1983 - I'll Stake My Cremona to a Jew's Trump (electric violin and viola, both players also simultaneously singing)
1984 - The Abbess of Andouillets (choir)Time Lapse(Orchestra)
1985 - Nose-List Song (soprano and orchestra) [this and the above two works are from an unfinished opera setting of Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, which Nyman has repeatedly cited as his all-time favorite book]
1985 - Child's Play (2 violins; harpsichord)
1985 - String Quartet No. 1
1986 - Taking a Line for a Second Walk (for orchestra or piano duet)
1986 - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera; libretto by Christopher Rawlence; adapted from the Oliver Sacks case study by Nyman, Rawlence, and Michael Morris)
1986 - And Do They Do (modern dance, 1986)
1987 - Vital Statistics (opera; libretto by Victoria Hardie)
1988 - String Quartet No. 2
1989 - Out of the Ruins (choir)
1989 - La Traversée de Paris (soprano and band)
1989 - The Fall of Icarus (band)
1989 - L'Orgie Parisienne Arthur Rimbaud setting (soprano or mezzo soprano and orchestra)
1990 - Shaping the Curve (soprano saxophone, string quartet or piano)
1990 - Six Celan Songs (contralto and orchestra)
1990 - Polish Love Song (soprano and piano)
1990 - String Quartet No. 3
1991 - The Michael Nyman Songbook A collection of songs based on texts by Paul Celan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Shakespeare, and Arthur Rimbaud and recorded with vocalist Ute Lemper.
1991 - Where the Bee Dances (soprano saxophone and orchestra)
1991 - Fluegelhorn and Piano
1992 - Time Will Pronounce (violin, cello, and piano)
1992 - For John Cage (brass ensemble)
1992 - Self-Laudatory Hymn of Inanna and Her Omnipotence (alto and string orchestra or countertenor and viol consort)
1992 - The Convertibility of Lute Strings (solo harpsichord)
1992 - Anne de Lucy Songs (soprano and piano)
1992 - The Upside-Down Violin (orchestra/ensemble)
1993 - MGV: Musique à grande vitesse (band and orchestra)
1993 - The Piano Concerto (piano and orchestra)
1993 - Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs (1993; opera-ballet setting William Shakespeare's The Tempest)
1993 - Yamamoto Perpetuo (violin solo)
1993 - Songs for Tony (saxophone quartet)
1994 - To Morrow (soprano or soprano saxophone, organ)
1994 - Three Quartets (ensemble)
1994 - Concerto for Trombone (trombone, orchestra, and steel filing cabinets)
1995 - String Quartet No. 4
1995 - Tango for Tim (In memoriam Tom Suster) (harpsichord)
1995 - The Waltz Song (unison voices)
1995 - Viola and Piano
1995 - Grounded (mezzo-soprano, saxophones, violin, piano)
1995 - HRT [High Rise Terminal] (chamber ensemble)
1995 - Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings
1995 - Double Concerto for Saxophone and Cello (saxophone, cello, and orchestra)
1996 - After Extra Time (ensemble)
1997 - Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks (orchestra)
1997 - The Promise (piano)
1998 - Cycle of Disquietude (Coisas, Vozes, Lettras) (soprano, mezzo-soprano, and band)
1998 - Orfeu (band)
1998 - De Granada A La Luna (band)
1999 - The Comissar Vanishes (band)
2000 - Facing Goya (opera; libretto by Victoria Hardie)
2001 - a dance he little thinks of (orchestra)
2003 - Violin Concerto (violin and orchestra)
2003 - Man and Boy: Dada (opera)
2006 - gdm for Marimba and Orchestra (concerto)
2007 - A Handshake in the Dark (choral piece with orchestra; text by Jamal Jumá [world premiere 8 March 2007, Barbican, London, performed by the BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, John Storgards conducting])
2007 - Interlude in C (expansion of a theme from The Libertine for Accent07 touring ensemble)
2007 - Love Counts opera
2007 - Eight Lust Songs song cycle
*originally recorded by Nyman, Ned Sublette, Susan Krongold, Barbara Benary, Jon Gibson, Richard Cohen, Virgil Blackwell, Peter Zummo, and Peter Gordon at The Kitchen, and intended for Peter Greenaway's short film, The Tree.
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