MICHAEL NYMAN – MICHAEL NYMAN LP – Nr MINT A1/B1 UK 1982 CLASSICAL MINIMAL ELECTRONICA

Michael Nyman – Michael Nyman
(Piano Records  1982  SHEET1)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing

Sleeve in Very Good+ condition
– some wear to edges/corners, some discolouration & some marks in top left corner

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from the odd light pop/crackle)

Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway), and his multi-platinum 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; 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, four string quartets, and many other chamber works, many for his Michael Nyman Band. He is also a performing pianist. Nyman prefers to write opera rather than other forms of music.

Michael Nyman is the third album release by Michael Nyman and the second with the Michael Nyman Band, having previously contributed tracks to new music compilations. Most of the music was material from early films by Peter Greenaway such as “Bird List Song” from The Falls, sung by Lucie Skeaping, and music from Act of God and Tree.

• Rory Allam – clarinet
• Alexander Balanescu – violin
• Anne Barnard – french horn
• Ben Grove – guitar, bass guitar
• John Harle – saxophone
• Nick Hayley – rebec, violin
• Ian Mitchell – clarinet
• Michael Nyman – piano
• Elisabeth Perry – violin
• Steve Saunders – trombone
• Roderick Skeaping – rebec, violin
• Keith Thompson – flute, piccolo, recorder, saxophone
• Doug Wootton – banjo

• Peter Brötzmann – bass clarinet, tenor saxophone
• Evan Parker – soprano saxophone
• Lucie Skeaping – soprano

1. “Bird Anthem” (from Act of God) 2:37
2. “Initial Treat” (from Tree) 2:50
3. “Secondary Treat” (from Tree) 1:27
4. “In Re Don Giovanni” 2:48
5. “Waltz in F” 5:55
6. “Bird List Song” (from The Falls) 4:19
7. “M-Work” 21:09

Produced by David Cunningham.