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Track Listings
| 1. Trysting Fields (2004 Digital Remaster) |
| 2. Sheep And Tides (2004 Digital Remaster) |
| 3. Great Death Game (2004 Digital Remaster) |
| 4. Drowning By Number 3 (2004 Digital Remaster) |
| 5. Wheelbarrow Walk (2004 Digital Remaster) |
| 6. Dead Man's Catch (2004 Digital Remaster) |
| 7. Drowning By Number 2 (2004 Digital Remaster) |
| 8. Bees In Trees (2004 Digital Remaster) |
| 9. Fish Beach (2004 Digital Remaster) |
| 10. Wedding Tango (2004 Digital Remaster) |
| 11. Crematorium Conspiracy (2004 Digital Remaster) |
| 12. Knowing The Ropes (2004 Digital Remaster) |
| 13. Endgame (2004 Digital Remaster) |
Product Description
MICHAEL NYMANDISC 11. TRYSTING FIELDS2. SHEEP and#38; TIDES3. GREAT DEATH GAME4. DROWNING BY NUMBER 35. WHEELBARROW WALK6. DEAD MANNO.S CATCH7. DROWNING BY NUMBER 28. BEES IN TREES9. FISH BEACH10. WEDDING TANGO11. CREMATORIUM CONSPIRACY12. KNOWING THE ROPES13. ENDGAME
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I came across this work by accident, and was astonished by the quality of this music - and the fact that it seems to have been overlooked by just about everyone! What we have is a series of interrelated pieces inspired by a movement from Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante. Some pieces are of hypnotic quality - others insistantly rhythmic. As a work, its eminently listenable and (unlike some of the other reviewers) - I'm a tough critic as I don't really like most of Nyman's work, as I find it too crude and repetitative for my taste. This work is pure minimalism - as austere as Glass in places - in others lyrical, hypnotic and supremely beautiful - as well as being highly unusual. I simply cannot understand why this piece has not gained a place among his best known pieces and highest rated works - Prospero's Books and the like - unless it stems from its origin as a film score. This label should be ignorred, as this is a well structured and highly accomplished work that deserves proper recognition. It is Nyman at his very very best.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Audio CD
I am a VERY big Nyman fan, and I speak from experience when I say that this is one of his most impressive works, if not THE most. It is absolutely beautiful, based on Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin & Viola K.364. I have heard all of the other Greenaway soundtracks, most of the other soundtracks incl. new ones (Cold Room, A La Folie, Carrington, Piano, Gattaca, Wonderland, End Of Affair, Hairdresser's Husband, Ogre, etc.), and I have heard almost all of his solo music (Kiss etc., Concertos, String Quartets, Piano Concerto + MGV, Songbook, Noises Sounds Sweet Airs, Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, And Do The Do/Zoo Caprices, Suit and the Photograph, etc.), and this work ranks among the very highest of all of them. Although I recommend all of Nyman's work, this has to come pretty high in the list. ....one of the finest audio delights you will ever have the pleasure of experiencing!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Probably the most consistent of the Greenaway soundtracks, this is an aural delight from beginning to end. Less frantic than 'A Zed and Two Noughts', lighter in tone than 'The Cook, etc', and more polished than 'The Draughtsman's Contract', it's based heavily on cut-up, altered extracts of Mozart, although I know nothing about Mozart and can't comment on the faithfulness or otherwise of the adaptations. It's very floaty and melancholy, and as I remember it fitted the film perfectly, being both gorgeous and slightly odd, although after seeing the film it has a melancholy air to it.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Hmm, not the best purchase I've ever made...
This is not a bad CD, it's just that I don't like it; too wandereee, like a Greenaway movie! You pays your money...
Published on 4 July 2010 by Philip Connolly
5.0 out of 5 stars
Music to be haunted by
Nyman, along with Greenaway, seems to be one of those half-forgotten geniuses. And wrongly so. I hadn't listened to this album in an age, though I am not sure why. Read more
Published on 12 Nov 2009 by EmmaH
5.0 out of 5 stars
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I find it difficult to believe that no one has taken it upon themselves to review this extraordinary work and consider it a privilige to be the first person invited to do so. Read more
Published on 21 Aug 2007 by Mr. D. M. Butcher
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