The Piano: Original Music From The Film By Jane Campion
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Performer: Michael NymanPerformer: Harvey Keitel
Performer: Sam Neill
Performer: Anna Paquin
Performer: Kerry Walker
Performer: Genevi?ve Lemon
Performer: Tungia Baker
Performer: Ian Mune
Performer: Peter Dennett
Performer: Te Whatanui Skipwith
Performer: Pete Smith (III)
Performer: Bruce Allpress
Performer: Cliff Curtis
Performer: Carla Rupuha
Performer: Mahina Tunui
Performer: Hori Ahipene
Performer: Gordon Hatfield
Performer: Mere Boynton
Performer: Kirsten Batley
Performer: Tania Burney
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1993-10-19
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- To The Edge Of The Earth
- Big My Secret
- A Wild and Distant Shore
- The Heart Asks Pleasure First (From 'the Piano')
- Here To There
- The Promise
- A Bed Of Ferns
- The Fling
- The Scent Of Love
- Deep Into The Forest
- The Mood That Passes Through You
- Lost and Found
- The Embrace
- Little Impulse
- The Sacrifice
- I Clipped Your Wing
- The Wounded
- All Imperfect Things
- Dreams Of A Journey
Free Music Notes for The Piano: Original Music From The Film By Jane Campion
Free Music Review: Another magnificent score...
Hit: 5 Stars
I've loved Michael Nyman's film scores since 1988s "Drowning By Numbers". Whenever I watch a film that he has scored I have to buy the soundtrack, so I guess that makes me a fan. You don't have to see the movie, but who wouldn't want to see a work of such profound visual and auditory cinematic beauty?
The track "The Heart Ask Pleasure First" which returns as "The Promise" conjures up images of crashing waves and Ada's sad determination. I don't believe Harvey Keitel would have been nearly so scrumptious without the aid of this gorgeous score.
The Piano: Original Music From The Film By Jane Campion Poster
Michael Nyman came of age as a classical composer in the radical London of the late '60s. His work embraces multiple vernaculars (jazz, avant garde, conceptual art) and helped cement the foundation of what came to be known as minimalism. Decades into his career, Nyman's score to Jane Campion's film The Piano made him a star. The movie's themes of colonialism and silence (its protagonist, portrayed by Holly Hunter, cannot speak) were perfectly aligned with his longtime interests in world and ambient music. Horn players assist members of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra in fleshing out Nyman's stately, hymn-like motifs. On the more heavily orchestrated cues, sentimentality wins out over minimalist restraint; the best tracks feature Nyman on solo piano, playing the rudimentary, faux period repertoire of Hunter's character. --Marc WeidenbaumSoundtracks Music CDs
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