Michael Nyman Chasing Sheep Is Best Left To Shepherds 

He is great, but nothing in comparison to the genius who inspired him for this soundtrack, Henry Purcell.

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But...but... Madonna? Lady Gaga? Taylor Swift? Justin Bieber? XD lol

​​@@kasiphiaYes, absolutely. I always hear Purcell's "Cold Song" from ca. 1700 here. The idea of the basic rhythmic theme throughout the entire piece is therefore a little bit older...

Very exceptional as i am not normally a great fan of the saxophone.

I remember an interview with Nyman when he explained how the Michael Nyman Band came about. He was asked to do the music for a National Theatre production in the late 60s, and his intention was to get a sound somewhere between that of a rock band and a 'mediaeval street band'. They were called the Campiello Band to begin with, and needed to sound raucous and loud whilst still being 'acoustic'. Saxes gave the impression of old instruments like shawms and curtals. Something like that.

Me too, George. (Also an Irishman.) Fair play to you

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Tears e Heaven

chwarae teg (welsh) not everyone in every country is a dick head , love peace laughter ....and beer

Well as you can infer from my name, I'm French, and this reminds me ALSO the French court... So what you see is aristocracy "nobility" from the post-renaissance. And, it's true that it seems to me that Ireland didn't have a large court and a "famous" kingdom. BTW, I've been in Ireland and I love it... In an old prison cell I heard....

Interstate signal!

Nice mixture of Baroque and doo-wop.

Baroque was not limited to England.

@@guitarslim56 btw nobody said that

how can you say that? nothing baroque about this... minimalist at best and also hawking Handel!

@@vilhelmhammershoi3871 Nyman’s approach to Purcell’s music is very much in the baroque spirit of composing variations upon existing ideas, and this is seen in ‘Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds’.

+Kristina Rasskazova thanks for the comments. I too was captivated by the music and the video. If you haven't seen the film I would recommend it.

+mcpartridgeboy Io credo nel amore eterno

+kevinbd70 I haven´t seen it but I will! Thank You!

+Kristina Rasskazova Well miss, you probably had the best wedding ever. Kuddos from France ! :)

+Kristina Rasskazova Marry me

Well, he IS ripping off a baroque composer. ;)

Man I miss Larry on days like this

Well, I have to ask-- what are the others, Sir???

@@karmelodion We'll never know.

@@karmelodion surely it must be this and Big Momma's House 2.

me too

he is! he’s actually my grand-uncle haha

how?

@@odakyuodakyu6650 I think they fell out over the production of "Prospero's Books". All I know is a quote from Peter, where he said that it was unlikely they would ever work together again.

@@alphabetaxenonzzzcat im gonna assume the worst and think that Nyman stole peter's lady, at their wedding, and everyone was there in period costume and he also stole Peter's car too which was parked outside the church.

@@odakyuodakyu6650 and presumably then crashed it into a biologist's wife's car outside a zoo. Or perhaps Greenway's wife forcing him to eat Nyman's roasted corpse. With these to it could be anything

@@hamishwhitehenderson5197 i do recall his autobiography mentioned alot about 'the food here in Belmarsh aint too bad for a Cat A prisoner.'

I'm with you. Blew my mind when I saw this movie. Total brilliance ❤

Outside of the perfect world of the camera and the Canvas, of the idiealized version of reality that he has been contracted to portray for his lords, in the true world a Murder Is being planned

Yes haha

The soundtrack has been removed now 😢

Make sure there are no snakes in your garden...!!! They may be of Roman Catholic extraction, then you'll need to employ the aid of an orange colored Dutchman to purge your garden of any papist influence.

brandybuck1984 Lol

@@ThePayola123 They might be hiding in the "priest hole".

@@zabooza74 Is that an oblique reference to the world wide paedophile scandals, that are presently undermining the Catholic priesthood ?

@@tristanwilkinson9516 Oh no I would never do such a horrible thing I mean that would be of really bad taste, wouldn't it? Of course this is only about the historical "priest holes" that some pressed priests would stick to in times of great need.

I believe the character is irish in the film. Perhaps not.

very much like Wendy Carlos's Switched on Bach, it is a fun, respectful fusion of the period's style and today's interpretation of the period's style, though with a few graceful "improvements" to make it even more perfect.

*more than

Helen Trope This is the single weirdest feature of US English. I see it all the time but I cannot, for the life of me, understand how anyone could confuse the words than and then. It’s like confusing lit and tit just because they have some of the same letters. I am in my fifties and I have literally never heard an English person make this mistake.

@@simonlangley8069 That's fair, but UK English has some features which must seem extremely strange to US speakers (for example, tendency of many dialects to pronounce ''three'' as ''free''). I probably do that myself as from near London, I'm just saying bear in mind UK English seems weird to US speakers, Spanish from Spain seems strange to Spanish speakers from South America etc.

I don't know. Anybody who dislikes this has no ears AND no soul

Now you can go further to Henry Purcell ;)

Nyman compose 1994. Pet Shopping boys 2014...

Same! I reckoned their arrangement was something Baroque, picture my surprise when I found this out lol

If you like this, check out Generation Sex by The Divine Comedy, which along with social commentary, has very similar instrumentals to this song.

Justin Poulter Thanks. Just watched this again and thought how nice it would be to bring back bowing and curtsying. I might try it at work. The bowing, that is! :)

I saw a little girl curtsey only last week and I immediately thought how charming it was. I agree, more bowing and curtseying would be good.

At War With Oceania The Divine Comedy covered Chasing Sheep... for the B-side of Generation Sex...

+Joshua Rosen. North Korea and Britain are the two places they still curtsy to their betters. (cringe!)

Haha, I see what you did there - if you know you know!

Yeah the PSB song is great too. Up there as one of their best ever. (Love is a Bourgeois Construct, for those who do not know) The PSB do credit both Nyman and Purcell as having written part of the song too.

the movie is literally about how bad English swagger is, lmao

Bring back, bring back. Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me, to me! Bring back, bring back. Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me. Humor inglés, supongo.

It's not coming back.

What film is this?

Mrdisney001 I believe it is based on a Parcel piece from King Arthur

Dònal Brügge nice dig!

Dònal Brügge Ah but look what he did with it! He took a pleasant yet inoffensive opening from King Arthur, and shocked it with 10,000 volts to produce something new and exciting. I don't think Purcell could complain...

Michael Nyman's Ph.D was on Purcell, and he didn't 'steal' so much as deliberately and openly conflate his and Purcell's music to match the period of the film.

In the credits of the CD Henry Purcell figures as "Musical Assistant" (or something like that, I don't remember it very well)

This IS Punkrock my friend.

Viva Rússia

No, I have you on that too! When I heard their song Love is a Bourgeois Construct I knew I'd heard the orchestral part before!

M.B. QuackBarc Nope, came here because of their song

Count me in. I new this music way before the PSB used if for "Love is Bourgeois construc", so when I heard it I was kind of shocked, but the PSB always surprise me with something.

holy cow! i have just heard the PSB "stuff". Unbelievably disgusting.

Fil Ippo you've only just heard of the Pet shop boys?!

Do Not Debase It. 😒