finetune artist: Michael Nyman

b. 23 March 1944, London, England. A highly acclaimed composer, pianist, orchestra leader, and author, Nyman studied at the London Academy of Music (of which he is a Fellow) and at King's College, London. He subsequently worked as a music critic before founding the Campiello Band (later renamed the Michael Nyman Band) in 1977. To the public at large, Nyman is probably best known for his music to Jane Campion's award-winning 1993 movie The Piano, and for several "propulsively pounding" scores he composed for the idiosyncratic director and screenwriter, Peter Greenaway. Most notable among these are The Draughtsman's Contract (1982), A Zed & Two Noughts (1985), Drowning By Numbers (1988), The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), and Prospero's Books (1991). The two men parted after Nyman discovered that his original score for Prospero's Books had been overlaid with what he called "awful phoney electronic music".

Listen to Michael Nyman at Finetune.

(2008) Man On Wire
(2008) 8 Lust Songs: I Sonetti Lussuriosi
(2008) Mozart 252
(2008) MGV
(2007) The Draughtsman's Contract: Music From The Motion Picture
(2007) Drowning By Numbers: Music From The Motion Picture
(2007) The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover: Music From The Motion Picture
(2007) A Zed And Two Noughts: Music From The Motion Picture
(2007) Decay Music
(2006) Acts of Beauty - Exit No Exit
(2006) Nyman Brass
(2005) The Piano Sings
(2005) The Piano
(2005) The Libertine
(2005) Man And Boy: Dada
(2003) AET (After Extra Time)
(2003) The Kiss And Other Movements
(2003) Live
(2003) Wonderland: Music From The Motion Picture
(2003) The Commissar Vanishes/The Fall Of Icarus
(2003) Six Days, Six Nights
(2003) The Claim: Music From The Motion Picture
(1999) The End of the Affair (Motion Picture Soundtrack)

The Heart Asks Pleasure First/The Promise
The End of the Affair
Love Doesn't End
Diary of Love
Sarah Dies