Hillsborough Memorial, in memory of the victims of the football stadium disaster, was premiered in 2014. Recommended Recording: The Piano Concerto, MGV, Kathryn Stott, Michael Nyman Band, Royal Liverpool PO (cond) Michael Nyman (Argo/Decca) Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Arvo Pärt | Contemporary | Classical ...
Feast (1987) and Royal Deceit (1994). Recommended Recording: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3, Danish National Radio SO (cond) Leif Segerstam (Chandos) Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Michael Nyman | Contemporary | Classical ...
was specific to scenes and emotions. Frequently dissonant, repetitive and avant-garde, his peerless, groundbreaking scores paved the way for the hypnotic, modern, ‘minimalist’ work of Michael Nyman (The Piano) and Philip Glass (Koyaanisqatsi). The Blockbuster Sound If Herrmann was the most influential soundtrack composer, John Williams is the most popular and most decorated. Having begun scoring ...
to doubt the possibility of creating anything genuinely new. All that was left was the endless recombination of existing fragments, in a spirit ranging from the near-pastiche of Michael Nyman (b. 1944), which revels unashamedly in its own artificiality, to the anxiety and disorientation of Wolfgang Rihm (b. 1952) and Alfred Schnittke (1934–98), whose allusions to past styles often ...
, John Barry in Britain, and Elmer Bernstein and John T. Williams in the US. Still, art music composers continue to fulfil important screen commissions, notably Michael Nyman (The Piano, 1992; The Diary of Anne Frank, 1995) and Philip Glass (Kundun, 1997; The Truman Show, 1998; The Hours, 2002). Pre-composed music has also ...
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