Compositions de: Carter Burwell Carli Comando Ludovico Einaudi Philip Glass Elton John David H. Lanz Wim Mertens Ennio Morricone Michael Nyman Astor Piazzolla Erik Satie Yann Tiersen John Williams Compositeur : Various Composers Édition musicale : Ricordi Instrumentation : Piano Type de produit : Recueil ISMN : 9790215108714

Water Dances is a work scored for two pianos from 2011. Much of the work is an arrangement of the music written for the Michael Nyman Band for Peter Greenaway's 1984 film Making a Splash. The two-piano version was recorded by theLabèque sisters for their CD Minimalist Dream House on the KML/Deutsche Grammophon label. / Partitions classique / Piano - instruments à clavier / Piano / CHESTER MUSIC

Musique A Grande Vitesse (MGV ) translates as 'high speed music' and was commissioned by the Festival de Lille for the inauguration of the TGV North European Paris-Lille line in 1993.The piece runs continuously, but was conceived as an abstract, imaginary journey- or rather five inter-connected journeys, each ending with a slow, mainly stepwise melody which is only heard in its 'genuine' form when the piece reaches its destination.Thematic 'transformation' is a key to MGV as a whole. Throughout the piece ideas - rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, motivic, textural - constantly change their identity as they pass through different musical 'environments'.The opening bars establish both a recurrent rhythmic principle - 9, 11, or 13-beat rhythmic cycles heard against a regular 8 - and a harmonic process - chord sequences (mainly over C and E) which have the note E in common. (Coincidentally, MGV begins in C and ends in E). A later scalic, syncopated figure (again first heard over C, E and A) begins the second section, featuring Brass, in D flat.The topography of MGV should be experienced without reference to planning, description or timetables. The piece's tempo changes and unpredictable slowings down bear no logical relation to the high speed of the Paris-Lille journey, while the temptation to treat MGV as a concerto grosso, with the Michael Nyman band as the ripeno, was resisted: more suitably the band (amplified in live performance) lays down the tracks on which MGV runs. / Orchestre

Miserere was written in 1989 for the soundtrack of the film The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover. It is a setting of the Latin text of Psalm 51. Originally scored for solo Treble and mixedChoir this arrangement by the composer for solo Soprano and String Quartet was completed in 1993. Michael Nyman (b.1944) is an English composer and pianist who is one of the most sought-after composers of filmsoundtracks. He studied under Thruston Dart at the Royal Academy of Music and has since compsed several operas as well as music for countless films and TV shows.

Commissioned by and written for Nicola Walker Smith in October 1992 this set of songs takes as its starting point material from The Upside-Down Violin at Expo ’92 in Seville by The Michael Nyman Band and the Orquestra Andalusi de Tetuoan. The Moroccan orchestra plays only monophonically and consequently I wrote a ‘pure’ melody line - that is one not built on harmony. The harmonic content of Anne de Lucy Songs is thus derived from the melody for the first time in my work. The text is an ode to the great Renaissance theorist and musical speculator Salinas by Fray Luis de Leon.

Michael Nyman 's The Piano Concerto is based entirely on material selected from his soundtrack to Jane Campion's film 'The Piano.' The original Orchestral score was commissioned by the Festival de Lille in 1993 and first performed that same year. This is the Solo Piano Part of the reconsideration for Two Pianos. A full performance lasts around 32 minutes. / Piano

Michael Nyman 's Viola And Piano , composed in 2009. This version was revised in 2014 and is scored for Flute, Clarinet, Piano, Violin and Cello. Duration: approx. 14 minutes. / Flûte, Violon, Clarinette, Violoncelle Et Piano

This work composed for Children's Voices and String Quartet was commissioned by the Young People's Chorus of New York City. Conductor's score and String Parts are available from the Publishers.My text is extracted fromRodney Livingstone's translation of a short essay by the German cultural historian Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). It was written between 1914-15 during a metaphysical phase before Benjamin embraced Marxism. This text emphasises theyoung person's as opposed to the adult's approach to colour: 'for the person who sees with a child's eyes it marks boundaries it is not a layer of something superimposed on matter as it is with adults'. This work continues myinterest in art-based texts - from 'The Kiss' (1985) to my opera 'Facing Goya' (2000/02)© Michael Nyman 2003

Score and Parts for Michael Nyman's fifth String Quartet 'Let's not make a song and dance out of it' . / Quatuor A Cordes

Facing Goya Nyman's first full-length opera is written in four acts on a libretto by Victoria Hardie. Following it's first performance in 2000 it was revised in 2002 and again in 2014. Init's original arrangement intended for Nyman's own band the orchestration is as follows: five Violins two Violas one Cello two Double Basses two each Soprano and Alto Saxophones (doubled) Baritone Saxophone Flute Alto Flute Piccolo Trumpet and Flugelhorn (doubled) French Horn Bass Trombone (doubled) Tuba (doubled) Euphonium (doubled) and Electric Guitar. This work is scored for two Soprano Tenor and Baritone with Pianoreduction.