Michael Nyman Band: 'Time Lapse' from 'A Zed and Two Noughts' OST | Live in Halle (4/16)

From Studio Halle, 2010: The Michael Nyman Band performs "Time Lapse" from the soundtrack to Peter Greenaway's "A Zed and Two Noughts".
Part 4 of the concert "Michael Nyman Band Live at Studio Halle", featuring the acclaimed composer who gained fame for his soundtracks (such as Jane Campion's "Tha Piano" or Peter Greenaway's "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover" & "The Draughtsman’s Contract").

Michael Nyman - A Zed and Two Noughts: Time Lapse

The Michael Nyman Band

Michael Nyman
Gabrielle Lester
Catherine Thompson
Catherine Musker
Anthony Hinnigan
David Roach
Simon Haram
Andrew Findon
Steven Sidwell
David Lee
Nigel Barr
Martin Elliott

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About Michael Nyman

Many people associate the name Michael Nyman primarily with the soundtrack for Jane Campion’s film “The Piano”, but that fails to do justice to this highly successful British artist. The extensive oeuvre produced by composer, conductor, and pianist Nyman includes not only film music but also opera, songs, ballet music, and orchestral works and displays an impressive musical diversity. Anyone wishing to gain an impression of this versatility would have had an opportunity to experience the Michael Nyman Band in top form at this performance. The concert offers an exciting sample of Nyman’s past work and also presents the German premiere of The Musicologist Scores, marking the climax of an engagement with the music of Georg Friedrich Handel that began in the 1960s. Using an unusual combination of saxophone, flute, brass, piano, string quartet and bass guitar, The Michael Nyman Band is the composer’s preferred ensemble for trying out all his new works. All over the world the powerful, energetic playing of the band – developed under his leadership over a period of three decades – brings his works to sparkling life and has long since become a characteristic feature of his music.

© 2010, Monarda Arts

[ROYBARKER-fw]

The film is well worth a watch. I saw many nyman films and music back in the 80s

[sandravermes]

The haunting music playing at the Metropolitan Heavenly Bodies exhibition

[hb]

I've never heard this sound of music before. Can we call it maximilism? So energizing, so daunting, so uplifting, so beautiful.

[donaldwhittaker]

I've seen most of Greenaway's movies. Nyman used this music more or less in the kitchen panning shots for The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover. Nyman's music is like Mozart's. After 5 seconds you know the composer. Frank Zappa at least wrote different kinds of music. Though Nyman and Mozart are still pretty good, if predictable.