The Piano: Original Music From The Film By Jane Campion

The Piano: Original Music From The Film By Jane Campion
Label: Virgin Records Us
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 077778827429
EAN: 0077778827429
ASIN: B000000WK1


Release Date: 1993-10-19

The Piano: Original Music From The Film By Jane Campion


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Tracks:

  1. To The Edge Of The Earth
  2. Big My Secret
  3. A Wild and Distant Shore
  4. The Heart Asks Pleasure First (From 'the Piano')
  5. Here To There
  6. The Promise
  7. A Bed Of Ferns
  8. The Fling
  9. The Scent Of Love
  10. Deep Into The Forest
  11. The Mood That Passes Through You
  12. Lost and Found
  13. The Embrace
  14. Little Impulse
  15. The Sacrifice
  16. I Clipped Your Wing
  17. The Wounded
  18. All Imperfect Things
  19. Dreams Of A Journey

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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 <I>The Piano</I> 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. <I>--Marc Weidenbaum</I>

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Sounds of emotion.......2007-01-24

I saw the film, The Piano, many years ago. I loved the music very much. I listened to this album over and over. I then lost the CD a couple of years ago. I recently purchased it again. I turned it on, to have some music to relax to while I took a bubble bath. I pressed play, got in the tub, and began to listen. I had to get out of the tub and stop it from playing, otherwise my tears would cause the bathtub to overflow. In other words, this goes beyond normal relaxing piano music. The emotion it evokes is pretty raw. But when you're in the mood, it's a great album.

1 out of 5 stars Extraordinary.......2005-12-02

Has anyone noticed how Chopin has copied Michael Nyman's score for The Piano in his Piano Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op.58, Largo? Someone had better tell Nyman.

5 out of 5 stars Complex & Beautiful..........2005-08-21

Truly magnificent! The Piano's "My Big Secret" is tragicly
beautiful...haunting and contemplative...truly a stunning piece of music.

5 out of 5 stars La obra maestra de Michael Nyman!.......2005-08-12

La banda sonora de la película 'El piano' es, para mi, la gran obra maestra del compositor Michael Nyman. Más allá de su espléndido tema central (que aparece citado mediante la técnica de la variación en algún otro fragmento), la partitura presenta una música envolvente y descriptiva, que combina melancolía, relax, resentimiento y fuerza. Una música que llega directa al alma, que apetece oir muchas veces.
Los solos del piano de Ada (la protagonista del film) se ven perfectamente complementados por los fragmentos orquestales, para crear la que es una de las bandas sonoras más hermosas de los últimos tiempos.
Excepcional la interpretación del propio Michael Nyman al piano con su Michael Nyman's Band, un conjunto de instrumentistas de grandísima calidad, al igual que la orquesta.
Una compra obligada para los amantes de las bandas sonoras, o simplemente, para los amantes de la música hermosa, con esa rara capacidad de emocionar.

1 out of 5 stars Lite music for lite people.......2004-08-25

The central conceit of Jane Campion's ludicrously over-praised "The Piano" is that Ada, a mute, communicates through the music she plays on her beloved piano -- which magical instrument, I might add, can somehow be transported, unplayed in a crate below decks in a sailing vessel from Scotland to New Zealand, and remain more or less perfectly in tune. What's more, it can be left on that beach, partially uncrated, for several days, with the sea lapping about its feet, and remain in tune.

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