Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Bird List
2. Chasing Sheep Is Best Left to Shepherds
3. Eye for Optical Theory
4. Homage to Maurice
5. Angelfish Decay - Zoo Orchestra
6. Time Lapse - Zoo Orchestra
7. Trysting Fields
8. Wheelbarrow Walk
9. Knowing the Ropes
10. Memorial
11. Skating
12. Peeking
13. Abandoning
14. Skirting
15. Miranda Previsited
16. Here to There - Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Nyman
17. Heart Asks Pleasure First/The Promise - Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Nyman
18. All Imperfect Things - Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Nyman
19. Dreams of a Journey - Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Nyman

Disc 2:

1. Escape
2. Fly Drive
3. Infinite Complexities of Christmas
4. If - Michael Nyman, Hilary Summers
5. Abel Carries Ephraim
6. Becoming Jerome/God's Hands - Michael Nyman Orchestra
7. Morrow - Michael Nyman Orchestra
8. Other Side - Michael Nyman Orchestra
9. Departure - Michael Nyman Orchestra
10. Convening the Coven - Michael Nyman Orchestra
11. Stranger at the Window - Michael Nyman Orchestra
12. Cannibal Fantasy - Michael Nyman Orchestra
13. Molly
14. Eddie
15. Dan
16. Eileen
17. Sarah Dies - Michael Nyman Orchestra
18. End of the Affair - Michael Nyman Orchestra
19. Shootout - Michael Nyman Orchestra
20. Burning - Michael Nyman Orchestra

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13666 in Music
• Released on: 2001-11-12
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Soundtrack
• Dimensions: .28 pounds

Album Description
This superb import compilation brings together some of the composer's best soundtrack works on two CD's. Includes many tracks from the early Peter Greenway films, the award winning Jane Champion film the The Piano and highly acclaimed films by Michael Winterbottom. Also included are previously unreleased work as well as material from 'The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover', 'Hairdresser's Husband', 'Prospero's Books', & 'Carrington', 'Gattaca', 'End Of The Affair' & much more. EMI 2001 release. Housed in a slipcase.

Customer Reviews

A Truly Gifted Composer
Michael Nyman first got my attention with his most popular score to date, The Piano. Nyman's music in the film The Piano, I believe, has yet to be surpassed by any piano score to date. An accomplishment very well recieved by the composer himself, who's redone the score over and over again(I would too if I wrote it). Nyman's other works are not too familiar to me but they all sound very good. His work in Gattaca, although, is another one of Nyman's better scores. The score to Wonderland is probably the closes work to The Piano, feeling wise. Very intense and emotional. I give Michael Nyman 5 stars for his 21 years of composing music for film.

What a couple : Nyman - Greenaway!
The films of Peter Greenaway are the perfect sum of craftsmanship : text , painting , photography , a minimalist script and frenetic exuberance . All the imaginable beauty and the unthinkable ugliness ; the hidden fears of the human being the timeless evilness . Greenaway films are made such a great symphony . You can identify the four movements in every single movie of this original film maker.
The happy joining with Michael Nyman was a very successful encounter . Because Nyman with his fertile creativity makes possible the most intimate motives and depicts with precision the right feeling and the implacable fate of the characters in the play.
From the draughtsman' s contract . to the sinister A zed and two noughts , passing for the cynical Drowning by numbers , the merciless vengeance in The cook , the thief , his wife and her lover and finally Prospero books based in the Tempest of William Shakespeare .
This album is a summation and digest of ten years of progress in the performance of musicv by a composer whom evidently is gifted and identified in his commitment , and joyous enthusiasm..

Best of Michael Nyman
This truly is Michael Nyman's best works over an extensive period of time. This collection shows the range of his compositions and it is beautifully recorded. For any Michael Nyman fan this is a "must have"!