Most famous for his collaborations with film director Peter Greenaway, Michael Nyman is a thoroughly modern composer, at home with concerto form, a film score or an arrangement of baroque song. Indeed, Where the Bee Dances for saxophone and orchestra is a single-movement concerto, the title derived from one of Puck's songs from Shakespeare's The Tempest. More than that, Nyman makes ...
This is an ideal introduction to some great music for both classical first-time toe-dippers, and people who have some knowledge of classical music but want to get more ideas about other composers they might like. The artists are household names, and can be heard singing or playing music with which they have become particularly associated: Luciano Pavarotti sings "Nessun Dorma", for example, and ...
Moving On, the solo debut from Myleene Klass, finds the former Hearsay vocalist performing piano arrangements of contemporary pop and classical numbers. It includes the themes from Braveheart, Gladiator and The Piano plus her interpretation of the number one single by Daniel Bedingfield, "If You're Not the One".