The Kiss and Other Movements (1985) ...
Michael Nyman, English composer... best known for movie soundtracks, such as Jane Campion's The Piano, and for Peter Greenaway. This album is mainly derived from soundtracks for short films and video art...Water Dances: 1, Stroking ... Original soundtrack from Peter Greenaway's film of synchronised swimmers 'Making A Splash' ...This was later expanded to an eight movement concert work ...
Images Were Introduced (From Memorial) ... 'Images were Introduced was assembled from materials loosely disposed in Peter Greenaway’s documentary 26 Bathrooms'. Sung by Sarah Leonard, for whose voice it is written ...
Tango Between The Lines ...
Nose List Song (fourth section of Nyman's unfinished opera, Tristram Shandy) ...
Water Dances: 3, Synchronising ...Never saw such a nose in my life 'Tis a nose of parchment It is six times as big but 'tis a nose like my nose I heard it crackle I saw it bleed What a pity we didn’t both touch it What a nose 'Tis as long as a trumpet And of the same mettle as you hear by its sneezing 'Tis as soft as a flute 'Tis brass 'Tis a pudding's end 'Tis a brazen nose...
The Kiss (Dagmar Krauss & Omar Ebrahim) ...
The text is an assemblage of extracts from various 15th [century texts, keeping phrases such as] “Images were introduced because people cannot retain what they hear but they do remember if they see images”, deliciously open to misinterpretation: I deliberately and ironically wanted to give the erroneous impression that I believed that the visual images that are frequently combined with my music are stronger that the musical images; whereas in fact the text referred to the introduction of painted religious images which were provided for the unlearned, who were unable to understand or remember biblical texts... michaelnyman.com
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