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mudra wrote:Thank You metaw.
It is lovely to see this breath of fresh air in the thread.
I enjoy every new sheet of music you are offering to this thread .
mudra
mudra wrote:Michael Nyman - The Heart Asks Pleasure First
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dPS-EHl-FE&feature=related
Love Always
mudra
The Piano Concerto - The definite article in the title is significant: this concerto, for piano and smal orchestra, is based entirely on material selected from my soundtrack for Jane Campion’s film The Piano. That score was written in two phases: the solo piano music was composed for Holly Hunter (who played Ada, a pianist in the film) in the autumn of 1991; the orchestral score, partly derived from the piano music, after the film was completed in the summer of 1992. The Piano Concerto, commissioned by the Festival de Lille, was composed in spring 1993 and first performed by Kathryn Stott with the Orchestre National de Lille under Jean-Claude Casadesus on 26 September 1993, along with the peremier of MGV.
This ‘reconsideration’ of the film soundtrack enabled me to achieve (at least) three goals: to create a more coherent structure out of often short, self-contained film cues; to build more elaborate, dynamic textures than were called for in the film (with its more limited palette of string orchestra and saxophones), and to write a more taxing piano part than was suitable for The Piano (a part that combines with, rather than confronts, the orchestra however). The Concerto is a singe movement work in four distinct phases, three of them featuring eigteenth- and nineteenth-century popular Scottish song tunes which formed the basis of Ada’s music in the film. The first phase in A minor is derived largely from ‘Bonny winter’s noo awa’; the second, harmonically more chromatic, has no Scottish-based material; the third (in G/D major) features two Scottish tunes -‘Flowers of the forest’ (cut up and speeded up) and ‘Bonnie Jean’ (massively slowed down, the tune, on cellos and trumpet, as the bass to divisi violins), and a non-Scottish melodic sequence, based on harmonies heard in the opening section, acts as a transition to the final section which reprises ‘Flowers of the forest’ and ‘Bonny winter’s noo awa’.
metaw3 wrote:
I love this piece. Nyman made a concerto with it where he took much more liberties in the arrangements than the music he made for the film. It's called The Piano Concerto and it's a 30 minutes single movement:
http://www.michaelnyman.com/music/recordings/show/the-piano-concerto-mgv
mudra wrote:I did'nt know this . I found and listened to part of it but it's frustrating not to be able to listen to the entire piece. It may well be posted in full one day.
We will have to watch out .
Thanks for drawing my attention to it metaw.
My friend Vincenzo Culotta plays my "Lady Gaga Fugue", a piece based on the theme from the song "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga.
This should show how counterpoint can be fun and up to date
mudra wrote:Very nice arrangement metaw
metaw3 wrote:mudra wrote:Very nice arrangement metaw
Thank you, but just to make sure, it's not from me. I simply quoted the description of the youtube video and it happens to be in the first person.
