From: gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc,rec.music.classical
Subject: Re: MICHAEL NYMAN - PETER GREENAWAY
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:10:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: heurikon.1415
Reply-To: gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor)
Organization: Heurikon Corporation, Madison, WI

Espen H. Koht and Giwrgos Rimikis compare notes on Nyman/Greenaway music:
>> 	- The Falls (1980)
>> 	- The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
>> 	- One Zed and Two Noughts (1985)
>> 	- Drowning by Numbers (1987)
>> 	- The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and her Lover (1989)
>> 	- Prospero's Books (1991)

You've forgotten "A Walk Through H", a fragment of which appears on
the  Crepuscule "From Brussels With Love" compilation. The music 
appears as a part of "The Falls," as well.

>     He has also written the music for many of Greenaway's shorter
>films, like 'Vertical Features Remake' (1979) (a subtle mocking on the
>structuralist movement) and others.  I'm not sure which or if at all
>Nyman has been involved with Greenaway on any of his many films
>produced for television.

There's no involvement at all on the Greenaway documentaries on musicians,
and none either on his version of Cantos 1-VII of the Inferno [is this
out on tape in the UK as "TV Dante"? I watched it on the VPRO whilst
living in Holland].

>> He also looks for early film scores  of Michael Nyman. Any 
>> possible assistance provided would be greatly appreciated.

There's a small run disc on [I think] the Piano Label simply called
Michael Nyman, which has a jokey sticker about the disc being misfiled.
The music from there is almost all taken from "The Falls." It's early
Nyman Band, and really hard to find.

There's a disc of Nyman's more-or-less pre-Minimalist writing as one
of the Obscure Music releases. It's called "Decay Music." It'll bear
little resemblance to the Nyman you think you like, but let's be 
complete.

>I have just recently been able to complete my collection of Nyman
>scores for Greenaway films here in the US (with the exception of 'the
>Falls' which I'm not sure if is released).  The two last films have
>been readilly available for some time now, but 'the Draughtman's
>Contract', 'Drowning by Numbers' and 'A Zed and Two Noughts' I only
>found recently available from Caroline records.  

Our European friends will find it quite easy to purchase a boxed set
of four Greenaway soundtracks with a little 4-page thing full of stills
and a paragraph from Nyman [pretty light, actually]. It includes TDC,
DBN, ZOO, and TCTTHWHL. Caroline's merely licensed them from Virgin
UK.

There's also a Nyman disc on EG called "The Kiss and Other Movements",
and a choral album by the Holy Echimiadzin Choir of Armenia doing a pice
of his on BBC film called "Out of the Ruins." [this same material is used
for one of his string quartets [the third, I think]

An album of his string quartets on the Argo Label [the Balenescu
Quartet], A disc of music about Paris on a French Label, and a version
of solo violin versions of some of the music from ZOO done by Balenescu
called "Zoo Caprices/Do They Do" on some obscure British CD label funded
by the London Arts Council.

I think you're about up to date now. Of course, I could be wrong. 
Corrections, anyone?

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