Michael Nyman

A selection of pieces and arrangements by Michael Nyman of his best-known film music. Including music from The Draughtsman's Contract Drowning By Numbers Carrington and The Piano.

L'intégralité des pièces pour le piano de la bande originale du film. Quel pianiste n'aura pas étudié le piano dans le but de jouer certaines de ces pièces ' / [The Piano / La Leçon de Piano] / Musiques de films and comédies musicales / Partition /

A transcription of a work for small orchestra (the score for Peter Greenaway's film A Zed & Two Noughts) scored for solo violin. Composed and first performed in Paris in 1986. Edited by Alexander Balanescu.

Available for the first time for solo piano here are four fabulous arrangements from the motion-picture soundtrack of The Piano plus the two favourite themes from the award-winning film by Jane Campion. This is anotherwonderfully presented edition with stills from the film an original manuscript sketch and note from Nyman to lead actress Holly Hunter who performs the pieces herself in the film.

Nyman is one of the most commercially successful composers of the 20th century and his music has struck a chord with audiences the world over. His award-winning scores have graced countless significant films including ThePiano Detroit: Ruin Of A City and Gattaca.This special collection of Nyman's Piano music includes previously unpublished works from Nyman's 2005 CD The Piano Sings. All works have been transcribedand restored to solo Piano arrangements offering his most successful and best-loved pieces in one superb volume.

Composed for John Harle in 1990 and is based strictly on a sequence of four chords.

Four Pieces from Michael Nyman's score to the film 'The Piano' arranged for Piano Trio. Score and Parts.

String Quartet No.3 was written for and first performed by the Balanescu Quartet February 1990 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall London. Duration 16 minutes. A score is available on sale..Quoting composer: In the summer of 1989 Icomposed a choral work Out of the Ruins for Agnieszka Piotrowska’s BBC2 documentary which dealt with the physical and emotional responses of some inhabitants of Leninakhan to the earthquake which devastated Armenia theprevious December. When he heard the recording of the work that I made with the Holy Echmiadzin Chorus under the fervent conducting of Khoren Meykhanejian Alex Balanescu suggested turning Out of the Ruins into a string quartet. There seemed no reason or opportunity to do this until I felt the need to add to the intensity of my experiences in Armenia the no less profound experience of witnessing the images of the Romanian revolution on television duringthe later part of December 1989.The compositional procedure was as follows: to take Out of the Ruins as a template on which the Romanian vocal or instrumental music would be superimposed quite often stretched into newintervallic shapes though the demands of the completely performed harmonic structure.

This work composed for Children's Voices and String Quartet was commissioned by the Young People's Chorus of New York City.

The arrangement for string quartet was made at the request of Alexander Balanescu for the Bicentenary of Mozart's death in 1991. It was first performed by the Balanescu Quartet at the Queen Elizabeth Hall London 1991.Duration 3 minutes. A set of parts is available for sale.