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Nyman Brass
''Nyman Brass'' is a 2006 album composed and produced by Michael Nyman and performed by Wingates Band. It consists of suites from the films, ''The Ogre The Ogre may refer to: * Baintha Brakk, a mountain in the Karakoram range of the Himalayas nicknamed The Ogre * ''The Ogre'' (1989 film), 1989 Italian horror film directed by Lamberto Bava * ''The Erl-King'' (novel), a 1970 novel also published a ...'' and '' The Libertine'', and two additional shorter works: " In Re Don Giovanni", and "Chasing Sheep Is Best Left to Shepherds" from '' The Draughtsman's Contract'', all arranged for brass. 2006 albums Michael Nyman albums {{2000s-classical-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Nyman
Michael Laurence Nyman, Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, libretto, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film soundtrack, scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the film director, filmmaker Peter Greenaway), and his multi-platinum The Piano (soundtrack), 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 (opera), 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 music, chamber works, many for his Michael Nyman Band. He is also a performing pianist. Nyman prefers to write opera over other forms of music. Early life and education Nyman was born in Stratford, London, Stratford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suite (music)
A suite, in Western classical music and jazz, is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral/ concert band pieces. It originated in the late 14th century as a pairing of dance tunes and grew in scope to comprise up to five dances, sometimes with a prelude, by the early 17th century. The separate movements were often thematically and tonally linked. The term can also be used to refer to similar forms in other musical traditions, such as the Turkish fasıl and the Arab nuubaat. In the Baroque era, the suite was an important musical form, also known as ''Suite de danses'', ''Ordre'' (the term favored by François Couperin), ''Partita'', or ''Ouverture'' (after the theatrical " overture" which often included a series of dances) as with the orchestral suites of Christoph Graupner, Telemann and J.S. Bach. During the 18th century, the suite fell out of favour as a cyclical form, giving way to the symphony, sonata and concerto. It was revived in the later 19th century, but in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brass (instrument)
A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. Brass instruments are also called labrosones or labrophones, from Latin and Greek elements meaning 'lip' and 'sound'. There are several factors involved in producing different pitches on a brass instrument. Slides, valves, crooks (though they are rarely used today), or keys are used to change vibratory length of tubing, thus changing the available harmonic series, while the player's embouchure, lip tension and air flow serve to select the specific harmonic produced from the available series. The view of most scholars (see organology) is that the term "brass instrument" should be defined by the way the sound is made, as above, and not by whether the instrument is actually made of brass. Thus one finds brass instruments made of wood, like the alphorn, the cornett, the serpent and the didgeridoo, while som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Draughtsman's Contract
''The Draughtsman's Contract'' is a 1982 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway – his first conventional feature film (following the feature-length mockumentary ''The Falls''). Originally produced for Channel 4, the film is a form of murder mystery, set in rural Wiltshire, England in 1694 (during the reign of William III and Mary II). The period setting is reflected in Michael Nyman's score, which borrows widely from Henry Purcell, and in the extensive and elaborate costume designs (which, for effect, slightly exaggerate those of the period). The action was shot on location in the house and formal gardens of Groombridge Place. The film received the Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association. Plot Mr Neville ( Anthony Higgins), a young and conceited artist, is contracted by Mrs Virginia Herbert (Janet Suzman) to produce a series of twelve landscape drawings of her country house, its outbuildings and gardens, as a gift for her cold and neglectf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Nyman (1981 Album)
''Michael Nyman'' is the third album release by Michael Nyman and the second with the Michael Nyman Band, having previously contributed tracks to Contemporary classical music, new music compilations. Most of the music was material from early films by Peter Greenaway such as "Bird List Song" from ''The Falls (1980 film), The Falls'', sung by Lucie Skeaping, and music from ''Act of God'' and ''Tree''. It also includes his first concert work for the band, "In Re Don Giovanni", which is built around a brief 15-bar phrase in the accompaniment of Leporello's Madamina, il catalogo è questo, catalog aria in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's ''Don Giovanni'', which was also released as a single (music), single under the title ''Mozart''. Nyman says he discovered the piece playing the aria on his piano in the style of Jerry Lee Lewis, which "dictated the dynamic, articulation and texture of everything I've subsequently done." The album should not be confused with Criterion's 1995 promo CD (CRI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Libertine (2005 Film)
''The Libertine'' is a 2004 period drama film, the first film directed by Laurence Dunmore. It was adapted by Stephen Jeffreys from his play of the same name, and stars Johnny Depp and Samantha Morton as John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester and Elizabeth Barry, with John Malkovich, Rosamund Pike, Rupert Friend and Kelly Reilly in supporting roles. Set in 1675 England, the film chronicles the life of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, who is asked by King Charles II to write a play celebrating his reign, while simultaneously training Elizabeth Barry to improve her acting. The film was shot on location on the Isle of Man and Wales. The setting for Rochester's home of Adderbury house was filmed on location at Montacute House, Montacute, Somerset and Charlecote Park, Warwickshire. Plot In 1675, John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, delivers a prologue of themes of his fondness for drink, his sexual proclivities, and his disdain for his audience. King Charles II retracts his bani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ogre (1996 Film)
''The Ogre'' (german: Der Unhold) is a 1996 French-German-British war drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff and starring John Malkovich, Gottfried John, Marianne Sägebrecht, Volker Spengler, Heino Ferch, Dieter Laser and Armin Mueller-Stahl. It was written by Jean-Claude Carrière and Schlöndorff, based on the novel '' The Erl-King'' by Michel Tournier. The story follows a simple man who recruits children to be Nazis in the belief that he is protecting them. Plot Abel Tiffauges ( Malkovich) is a simple Frenchman at the start of World War II who loves animals and children. The first part of the film recalls his childhood at a sadistic Catholic school for boys where he prays to Saint Christopher that the school, which he sees as a prison, be burned down. By chance, while Abel is being disciplined for spilling lamp oil on the chapel floor, his friend Nestor accidentally sets fire to the building, burning it down as he wished. From that day on, Abel is convinced that fate i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Counts
''Love Counts'' is a 2005 opera in two acts by Michael Nyman to a libretto by Michael Hastings. Performance history The opera premiered 12 March 2005 at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Germany, directed by Robert Tannenbaum. It was performed in London at the Almeida Theatre on 14 July 2006, directed by Lindsay Posner, designed by Peter McKintosh, and conducted by Paul McGrath. by Andrew Clements, '''', 17 July 2006 Roles Synopsis The opera begins with Patsy Bear (spelled Bear in the libretto but spelled Blair in the character list), a |
Acts Of Beauty • Exit No Exit
''Acts of Beauty • Exit no Exit'' is the 55th album by Michael Nyman, the eighth on his own label, and the third of these to consist entirely of previously unrecorded work. He does not perform on the album, but composed and produced it. ''Acts of Beauty'' is a song cycle with texts by various writers commenting on the nature of art and beauty. It is performed by Cristina Zavalloni and Sentieri Selvaggi, conducted by Carlo Boccadoro. ''Exit no Exit'' was originally a vocal work for John Motson called '' Beckham Crosses, Nyman Scores'', in tribute to the English association football team. Here, the vocal part is rewritten for bass clarinet, and played by Andrew Sparling of the Michael Nyman Band with the Nyman Quartet: Gabrielle Lester, Catherine Thompson, Kate Musker, and Tony Hinnigan. Acts of Beauty ''Acts of Beauty'' features settings of material by Vincenzo Cartari, Kurt Schwitters, subject of Nyman's opera, '' Man and Boy: Dada'', and Dziga Vertov, director of ''Man w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MN Records
MN may refer to: Places * Mongolia (ISO 3166-1 country code) * Montenegro (former ISO 3166 country code) * Monaco (FIPS 10-4 country code) * Minnesota, US (postal abbreviation) * Manipur, a state in northeast India * Province of Mantua, or of Mantova, in Italy * County Monaghan, in Ireland (license plate code) *Station code for Madiun railway station Language * Mongolian language (ISO 639-1 code) * ''mn'' (digraph), a combination of letters used in spelling Science and technology * Manganese, symbol Mn, a chemical element * .mn, the Internet country code top-level domain for Mongolia * Meganewton (MN), a unit of force equal to one million newtons * millinewton (mN), one-thousandth of a newton * Membranous nephropathy * Minimum mode, a hardware mode available to Intel 8086 and 8088 processors * Number average molecular weight (Mn) Other uses * Kulula.com (IATA airline designator MN) * ''MN'' (film), a 1954 Filipino movie * MN+ an Worldwide Indian Movies Channel * ''Marin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
