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Michael Nyman- Nyman Brass - Wingates Band -including UK Premiere Recording of music from the film ‘The Ogre’

Michael Nyman- Nyman Brass - Wingates Band -including UK Premiere Recording of music from the film ‘The Ogre’
ID: MNRCD110
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Brass

The two main sequences on the album are from the scores to The Ogre [Volker Schlondorff, 1996] and The Libertine [Laurence Dunmore, 2005]. The Ogre was never seen in the UK and the soundtrack not released here, so this will be the first time many people will have heard this music. Originally composed for brass ensemble with saxophones, Wingates Band's performance is not hugely different from the original.

The album is completed with the Michael Nyman Band classics, In Re Don Giovanni and Chasing sheep is best left to shepherds from The Draughtman's Contract [Peter Greenaway, 1982], where the music sounds very different from the original performances. Michael Nyman says, 'the whole sound-world was transformed. Things like repeated rhythms which I originally gave to piano are punchier, edgier, more dangerous on cornets and trombones.'

Wingates Band was formed in 1873 by the members of the Bible Class of Wingates Independent Methodist Church in Westhoughton, Bolton, in response to a challenge from the members of Westhoughton Old Band, which had been in existence since 1858. By the turn of the century, led by legendary 'giant' of the British brass band movement Willaim Rimmer, Wingates had been turned into one of the top bands in the country. In 1906 the Band achieved national fame by winning the 'double': the British Open and the British National Championships. The following year Wingates astounded the brass band world by completing the double again. www.wingatesband.org.

Michael Nyman described it as 'a privilege' to work with Wingates. Although his music was very different from the kind that the players were used to, he said they 'picked up the style, especially the formality of the music, and it soon sounded second nature to them… I loved the spirit of the playing, the instant dedication and the energy in what is a very new sound world for me.'
18.00 eur Buy

Shams - Baraka Latvian Ethno Jazz band

Shams - Baraka  Latvian Ethno Jazz band
ID: SKMR111
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection: Jazz
Subcollection: Band

Latvian Ethno Jazz band “Baraka” is offering its listeners a two-hour long musical journey across wonderful Tajikistan. The new album is entitled after the well-known band “Shams” that has been warming the hearts of people of Middle Asia for many years. Now the beautiful melodies of contemporary Tajik and Afghan composers have become available to the European audience. The musicians of legendary “Shams” have highly evaluated the new sound of their tracks. The band from Latvia has always pursued the goal of transferring the beauty of Tajik arts and people to the music-lovers of western countries. Recording of this album has included the participation of a number of appreciated musicians from Latvia, Russia, Tajikistan, Katmandu, Lebanon and Afghanistan. A double CD Baraka “Shams” complemented by the artistic cover design created by an Israeli creative agency will be a worthy asset to any music collection. This new album represents another cultural bridge between the peoples that only recently have been living in the shared environment and now have found themselves so apart.

Devika Evsikova - vocal, bass
Dmitry Evsikov - all percussion, arrangement
Artem Sarvi - piano, keyboards, arrangement
Deniss Pashkevich - flute, sax, bass clarnet (plays MARCA reeds and THEO WANNE - mothpieces and p.mauriat tenor saxophone)*
Egor Kovaikov - guitar, sitar, rubob, setor, dutor, vocal
Madars Kalniņš - piano, keyboards / Viktor Ritov piano, keyboards
Raivo Stašans - sax
Valery Korotkov - piano, synths, arrangement
Omed Dost - vocal
Normund Piesis - flugelhorn, trumpet
Sergey Gasanov - saz, dilruba, duduk, vocal
Zigmund Žukovsky - bass
Alijon Boynazarov - rap
Govinda Tiwari - vocal
Alex Sūris - accordion
Basel Wehbe - vocal
Vilnis Kundrats - sax
25.00 eur Buy

Michael Nyman - An opera in two acts (Libretto by Michael Hastings)

Michael Nyman - An opera in two acts (Libretto by Michael Hastings)
ID: MNRCD111_112
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Subcollection: Opera

The tenth release on MN Records, and the second opera recording for the label, Love Counts is a love story between the unlikeliest of couples: Avril, a lecturer in mathematics at a major college who has divorced a man who physically abused her, and Patsy, a middle-weight fighter at the end of his career who cannot read or recognise numbers.

Michael Nyman uses Riemenschneider's collection of 371 Bach chorale harmonisations to help Patsy find his voice - they are harmonically fragmented, sped up, slowed down, overlaid with themselves. Just as Dr P, the Alzheimer's suffering protagonist of Nyman's The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, has 'his' Schumann, so, in Love Counts, Patsy, a parallel sufferer, has 'his' Bach.

Award-winning writer Michael Hastings had previously worked with Nyman on the libretto for the opera Man and Boy: Dada, also available on MN Records.

Love Counts was commissioned by the Badisches Staatstheater, Karlesruhe, Germany and first performed there on 12th March 2005, directed by Robert Tannenbaum. This is a recording of the Almeida Theatre (London) production of Love Counts where it was performed in July 2006 by the Michael Nyman Band, bass baritone Andrew Slater and soprano Helen Williams, designed by Peter McKintosh and directed by Lindsay Posner.
32.00 eur Buy

 
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