I know what you mean, Harry. I'm 68, and my wife discourages me from buying them anymore. Once in a while I I do, from ArkivMusic, if I find a good recording at a good price of something I like.
Sorry for poor English. While being listening the last composition memory recollected one strong fragment from the Z00 by Peter Greenaway. Yes it is, it is not mistake! Brilliant performance!
For my point of view are the two living music composers - Philip Glass,on 31 january 2018 he becomes 81 years, and Michael Nyman, on 23 march 2018- 74 jears.The most brilliant and outstanding composres.
Beautiful interpretation!!!So glad to hear the Nyman piano back from the bottom of the sea!!!!(I loved that movie so much!)And such a music... Which deserved to be classified as part as minimalistic contemporain rather than just music for films!Thx+++!
"Silent night surrounding me On the shore of wistful sea A kindest heart made me believe The world as I wish it to be Wind in the wheat Kiss by a hearth Little hideaways for a lonely heart..." It just keeps repeating in my head every time I hear "The heart asks pleasure first". 😁 Thanks both Nyman for composing and Nightwish for covering(and therefore sending me here). 😊
So many wonderful emotions well up in me as I listen to this very lyrical and fulfilling piano solo music. It is exquisite in the interpretation and execution here by Jeroen Van Veen, who seems just born to play these incredible selections. I would classify these compositions between Minimalist and Post-Modern, but they really can't be stereotyped, honestly. Michael Nyman and Jeroen Van Veen are two of the greatest creative geniuses of modern times!
Oh wow! Normally I don't like modern composers, but this one is an exception. Very good music. Very touchy. Thanks for making me acquainted with Michael Nyman.
The composer Ludovico Einaudi is one of my favorite. You may also like his music, try Oltremare, Nuvole Bianche, Una Mattina, Divenire, and so on... I like them all :)
Bill, not from the very beginning - Satyagraha. The Departure - Badalamenti. The Exchange - recombination and reframing of some furnishing motif of some “Brazilian television series”. Mr. Nyman - molecular biologist of music!
Beautiful interpretation! Bravo! Very sensual and dramatic. I believe necessary degree of dramatism was missing from the original CD, whereas here you have accomplished it fully.
I had a CD of soundtrack to The Cold Room. Awesomely eerie. Lost it a neighbor's Halloween party. I put on The Piano soundtrack & just bliss-out by playing over & over. Harry, I know what you mean about purchasing hard copies of music. Free Pandora & Spotify are excellent sources. Or listen to a favorite radio station online. I do get some CD's at the second-hand store RepoCheapo & I dub or rip discs I check out of the public library. I'm very much liking van Vleen's touch on keyboard. Wonderful interpretation of a piece I'm so familiar with yet it sounds so different. Very nice.
I think Valentina was completely wrong to play Nyman. Minimalistic music isn't her strength. Her finger-controll is too soft. The interpretations here are on point.
I love the idea of it, but to be quite honest I find the pianist's hand a bit too heavy sometimes. Though he is obviously very talented, his renderings tend to force the climax moments, not leaving them space to resound spiritually: then the banging sound of the piano stifles the deeper, extrasound effect the climaxes should have, specially in such econominal and delicate compositions as Nyman's.
Laura Anne ...I, too love Philip Glass’ soundtrack to The Hours. But I’m afraid I have to say that much of this music has, to me, a rather generic and formulaic quality to it.
Although it seems a few tunes that repeat themselves in looping, nothing further! No! Minimalist musical language is not built with looping! This feature - the looping - is for anyone who is illiterate.
Is this recording some sort of joke, Jeroen? It’s hard to believe you would spend anytime on Nyman after listening to your greatest of all time recordings of the complete solo piano music of Simeon ten Holt in 2013.
