Manufacturer: Mn
Bryars's The Sinking of the Titanic is one of the oddest and at the same time most mesmerising works to come out of this end of the century. It began in 1972 as an abstract art piece that kept on building and changing in the composer's mind. It's a ghostly tapestry of eerie echoes, distant sounds almost like whale songs, and interjected rifts representing the band that was playing even as ...
Manufacturer: Virgin Records
Manufacturer: Virgin TV
Manufacturer: Virgin
Manufacturer: Black Box
All through this chilling depiction of a possible future, there's a sad sense of something lost, something forgotten. Family means little anymore, and you struggle to see where there's any joy in the characters' lives. Instead of "futuristic" music playing up the environment or technology, Nyman introduces two elements that focus on the story: first is a sense of sorrow. "The Morrow" immediately ...
Michael Nyman is a composer with an instantly recognisable sound, his music often being built upon stark, rhythmic orchestrations dominated by intense string writing. All these traits are instantly apparent in the composer's score for Neil Jordan's film of the autobiographical novel by Graham Greene, The End of the Affair. Featuring Ralph Fiennes, star of The English Patient, this is ...
Manufacturer: Sony Classical
Manufacturer: Universal Classics
Manufacturer: EMI
