Presentación de su nuevo disco SERIES OF ANDS – Immediate givens Warner 2011 . Con este nuevo album doble, el compositor Wim Mertens logra una amplísima escala musical; completa de cuerdas, guitarras, arpa e incluso un clavicémbalo.
1. The Great Outdoors 7:42 2. Sonsigns 7:18 3. Violet 5:44 4. Face A Main 7:26 5. Navigare Necesse Est 3:18 6. Der Des Ders 6:54 7. Indexed By The Arche-Fossil 8:36 8. Man-In-Person 7:39
1. Kerf Width 7:26 2. The Biggest Fable Of All 3:03 3. In Zones 13:26 4. The Determinant Of The Last Instance 3:15 5. What It Is Like To Be From Belgium 5:29 6. Remaining So And As Such 3:10 7. Oeuvrer 8:05 8. Unwitnessed Ancestral Phenomena 3:23 9. Tactility 2:56 10. The Fossil Argument 3:20 11. The Real Of The Cut 4:34
Michael Nyman & Motion Trio, Acoustic Accordions (2009)
Motion Trio Janusz Wojtarowicz - accordion Pawel Baranek - accordion Marcin Galazyn - accordion
Nigel Barr - trombone and euphonium Michael Nyman - piano
The fusion of Michael Nyman and the Motion Trio was an idea born especially for the 7th Kinoteka Polish Film Festival project originated and realised by the Polish Cultural Institute in London and financially supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of POLSKA! YEAR
Janusz Wojtarowicz (Motion Trio leader) writes:
“Michael Nyman’s music has been a part of my musical life for years. The first time I encountered it was in Peter Greenaway’s film “The Draughtsman’s Contract” and I was dazzled. I remember the theme “Chasing Sheep” stayed in my head for many days. Following that, I listened to Michael’s soundtracks to “Drowning by Numbers”, “Prospero’s Books”, “A Zed and Two Noughts”, “The Hairdresser’s Husband” and many others, with equal amazement.
I realised then that Nyman’s aesthetic – the exceptional drive and ruggedness of this music, combined with a deep lyricism – is very close to my own and that of Motion Trio as a whole. So when we received the proposition to play some of Michael’s film music with him, I promptly selected and arranged those pieces that I thought would sounds best rendered on three accordions.
After this experience, I know that what’s resulted from it is a new kind of sound and I’m not the one whom credit is due for this. The quote a detractor, “Nyman’s music is so wonderful, it even sounds good on the accordion”.
01.In Re Don Giovanni - Motion Trio, Nigel Barr 02.Knowing the Ropes - Michael Nyman, Motion Trio, Nigel Barr 03.Trysting Fields - Motion Trio 04.Wedding Tango - Michael Nyman, Motion Trio, Nigel Barr 05.Come Unto These Yellow Sands - Motion Trio 06.If - Michael Nyman, Motion Trio 07.Chasing Scheep is Best Left to Shepherds - Michael Nyman, Motion Trio 08.The Heart Asks Pleasure First - Michael Nyman solo 09.Miranda - Michael Nyman, Motion Trio, Nigel Barr 10.Silence - Motion Trio
From the Philip Glass Recording Archive Volume V (2009) The Secret Agent Original music composed by Philip Glass Directed by Christopher Hampton
Composed by Philip Glass Conducted by Michael Riesman Performed by The English Chamber Orchestra Conducted by Harry Rabinowitz With additional soloists: Susan Jolles, harp Fred Sherry,cello Henry Schuman, English horn, oboe Keith Underwood, flute, piccolo Produced by Kurt Munkacsi for Euphorbia Productions, Ltd. Recorded at Whitfield Street Studios, London, England
The new release from Philip Glass’s record label Orange Mountain Music, presents the score to the Christopher Hampton thriller, The Secret Agent. (This release is a re-issue of Nonesuch 79442-2)
Verloc (Bob Hoskins) has made his living spying for the Russian government, while simultaneously providing information to the London police.When the new Russian ambassador demands he prove his worth or lose his salary, Verloc sets off a tragic chain of events that involves his pretty young wife Winnie (Patricia Arquette), her retarded brother Stevie (Christian Bale), and a figure called the Professor (Robin Williams), whose fascination with explosives and destruction makes him the person to call on when Verloc needs a bomb. Christopher Hampton, the film’s director and screenwriter, is also known for his stage and screen versions of "Dangerous Liasons" and more recently for his screenplay to the award-winning “Atonement.” Hampton and Glass later worked together when the composer asked the writer to create a libretto from J.M Coetzee’s novel “Waiting for the Barbarians” in 2005. Hampton again wrote a libretto Glass’ 2007 opera “Appomattox”about the meeting of Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse at the end of the American Civil War.
La última letra del alfabeto sirve como hilo conductor del nuevo trabajo de Wim Mertens, “Zee versus zed” (dos formas de nombrar la letra z en ingles dependiendo de si se hace en Estados Unidos o en Canadá). Diez composiciones para un ensemble de cuerdas, metales, arpa y guitarra que acompañan al piano del maestro belga, que también canta en uno de los temas titulado “Z’s rival”.
1. Its Long Sought Principle 6:00 2. As Instrumentum 3:26 3. Cumbrous Notations 3:18 4. Random Groping 4:14 5. The Whole Of The Past 4:03 6. Such A Transition 3:40 7. Par Chance, Sans Effort 8:40 8. Apatride 12:24 9. This Necessary Willkür 3:10 10. Without Example 5:01 11. Unless The Hand Obeys 4:00 12. Its Maschinewesen 4:52
