| 词条 | The Essential Michael Nyman Band |
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| name = The Essential Michael Nyman Band | type = studio | artist = Michael Nyman | cover = Essentialmnband.jpg | caption = Cover design by Russell Warren-Fisher from a photo by Steve Pyke | released = November 10, 1992 (UK) January 19, 1993 (United States) | recorded = 1992, JVC Victor Studios, Tokyo, Japan | venue = | studio = | genre = Contemporary classical music, Minimalist music, film music | length = 67:18 | language = English | label = Argo | producer = | prev_title = The Hairdresser's Husband | prev_year = 1992 | year = 1992 | next_title = Time Will Pronounce | next_year = 1993 }}{{Album ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score ={{Rating|4.5|5}} [1] | noprose=yes |}} The Essential Michael Nyman Band is a studio album featuring a collection of music by Michael Nyman written for the films of Peter Greenaway and newly performed by the Michael Nyman Band. It is the seventeenth album release by Nyman. The album features liner notes by Annette Morreau, who describes the album as "a summation and digest of ten years of progress in the performance of music by a composer -- a composer with whom, so evidently, a group of friends and expert musicians intimately identify their total commitment, virtuosity, and joyous enthusiasm." As the works on the album were written as concert pieces before being transmuted into film music, some of the selections, particularly "Chasing Sheep Is Best Left to Shepherds" contain more material than their film versions, and some are very different in style, such as "An Eye for Optical Theory", with a tempo more than double from its original in The Draughtsman's Contract. The other films from which the music is derived are A Zed & Two Noughts (where it was originally not performed by the Michael Nyman Band), Drowning By Numbers, The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover, Making a Splash, and Prospero's Books. Nyman created a similar album in 2005 with Nyman/Greenaway Revisited. Fan reaction has generally been that The Essential Michael Nyman Band is the superior album.{{fact|date=September 2017}} Track listing
Tracks 1-3 from The Draughtsman's Contract. Tracks 4-5 from A Zed and Two Noughts. Tracks 6-8 from Drowning by Numbers. Tracks 9-10 from The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. Track 11 from Making a Splash. Track 12 from Prospero's Books. "Stroking" is not the same piece that was known as "Stroking" on, The Kiss and Other Movements, but rather, "Gliding." An Eye for Optical TheoryTrack 2, An Eye for Optical Theory, is based on a four-bar harmonic frame likely originally composed by William Croft. Nyman employs the syncopated potential of the original by adding the two saxophones to layer textures consisting of individual ‘collections’ of melodies over a constantly-changing backing track in the remaining ensemble. This gives rise to a strident melodic line in the upper strings.[2] Personnel
This recording made at the JVC Victor Studios, Tokyo
References1. ^[{{Allmusic|class=album|id= r423105/review|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review] {{Michael Nyman}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Essential Michael Nyman Band, The}}2. ^An Eye for Optical Theory Chester Music 2 : 1992 albums|Michael Nyman albums |
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