Michael Nyman

About the artist

Michael Nyman (born March 23, 1944) is a British minimalist composer, pianist, librettist and musicologist, perhaps best known for the many scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the British filmmaker Peter Greenaway. Nyman, who had studied with the noted Baroque music scholar Thurston Dart at King's College London, drew frequently on early music sources in his scores for Greenaway's films: Henry Purcell in The Draughtsman's Contract and The Cook

Top songs

1. The Heart Asks Pleasure First
2. The Promise
3. Big My Secret
4. The Sacrifice
5. The Heart Asks Pleasure First/The Promise - Edit
6. To The Edge Of The Earth
7. The Scent Of Love
8. A Bed Of Ferns
9. Here To There
10. A Wild And Distant Shore

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