Michael Laurence Nyman es un compositor inglés de música minimalista, pianista, libretista y musicólogo. Su obra es reconocida por numerosas bandas sonoras de películas, muchas desarrolladas a través de una colaboración sostenida con el cineasta Peter Greenaway, junto con la banda sonora multi-platino de El Piano. Nyman a menudo prefiere escribir óperas sobre otras formas musicales. También ha compuesto conciertos y cuartetos de cuerda, frecuentemente interpretados por su propia Michael Nyman Band, para la cual también actúa como pianista.
(Piano). Water Dances is a work scored for two pianos from 2011. Much of the work is an arrangement of the music written for the Michael Nyman Band for Peter Greenaway's 1984 film Making a Splash . The two-piano version was recorded by the Labeque sisters for their CD Minimalist Dream House on the KML/Deutsche Grammophon label.
Slovenský překlad publikace známého britského skladatele věnované především anglo-americké hudbě. Autor zkoumá tradici a vývoj experimentální hudby vyrůstající po 2. světové válce zejména z myšlenek amerického skladatele J. Cage.
Original Compositions for Solo Piano by Michael Nyman, From the Award-Winning Film by Jane Campion - New Edition Including Reproductions of the Original Manuscripts
(Music Sales America). Six original compositions for solo piano, by Michael Nyman, from the award winning film by Jane Campion. English composer Michael Nyman has developed into one of the most popular, if not important, composers of film music, and his film score for the 1992 film The Piano is without doubt the most famous and familiar of his compositions. The tone of Campion's film is perfectly emphasised by Nyman's style and though much here is beautiful and rich, it is a haunting and foreboding sound picture that reflects the greys of sea, sky and spirit. Big My Secret * Deep Sleep Playing * The Mood that Passes Through You * The Attraction of the Pedalling Ankle * The Heart Asks Pleasure First the Promise/the Sacrifice * Silver-Fingered Fling