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This is mature Nyman at his best, far from the dazzling neo-baroque exercises for the Greenaway films (great they were indeed), the british composer writes now in a less spectacular manner but defintively in a deeper and more senstitive way. His orchestrations are here delightfully thin, almost ethereal (relying mostly on strings), while some piano solo's become pristine poetry.
With Wonderland Nyman has achievd beauty in simplicity, with music that goes, rather than to our ears ... straight to our hearts.
Here the compositions are, for the most part, much shorter than what Nyman is know for (thinking specifically about works like Miranda from Prospero’s Books or Memorial from the Cook the Thief...) often clocking in at around the three of four minute mark. This makes the composer’s melancholic production easier to take, as the music becomes a reflection of the misery of the film with its reliance on mournful string arrangements built around a minimal piano composition. Though it’s is epic in it’s own right, this is a much more intimate work than the score for say, The Piano, and certainly reflects more of the lyrical poetry found in Winterbottom’s film.
This is a lovely collection of compositions following on in the more humanistic design established on his soundtrack for the early Gattaca that are certainly worth you’re attention. It may be more demanding than the early (fun) works such as A Zed & Two Noughts and the Draughtsman’s Contract, but it’s certainly an important part of Nyman’s evolution as a one of the greatest neo-classical composers of the last century... and a worth addition to your CD collection. P.S. don’t forget to see the film as well.
And so, two days later, the soundtrack arrived on my desk, and has not been out of my machine since. All the tracks are loosly based around the same theme, so the CD itself explores various different aspects of the emotions this theme can conjure, and it is simply a beautiful, heart rendering emotional journey.
And that piano piece, track 11, "franklyn", well, in the two days I have had this CD, it has provided the most appropriate backdrop to the emotional landsacape of certain recent events ...
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