IMHO;
ROCK / POP; 1) BOWIE; HEROES
2) JAPAN ;GENTLEMEN TAKE POLAROIDS
3) 801; LISTEN NOW
JAZZ; 1) JEAN LUC PONTY; A TASTE FOR PASSION
2) JOHN SCOFIELD; BLUE MATTER
3) KENNY BARRON; SCRATCHAL
CLASSICAL; 1) SIBELIUS; SYMPHONY NO. 1 IN E MINOR
2) SATIE; GNOSSIENNE 1
3) MUSSORGSKY; NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN
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The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper
The Doors - s/t
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Happy Listening!
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Mofi 45's of American Beauty and Workingman's Dead, and Neil Young's Decade
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@laoman
True. There are dozens of good modern pieces, IMO. At least 0.001%.
Do you have vinyl references for the pieces you mention?
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@terry9
Debrink Tobakova
Regent Record, Chandos,
Upon Reflection
Maxim Rysanov, Kristina Blaumane, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra
Dobrinka Tabakova: String Paths
Michael Nyman - his full discography
- 963 – Introduction and Allegro Concertato for Wind Quartet (lost)
- 1963 – Divertimento for Flute, Oboe and Clarinet
- 1965 – Canzona for Flute
- 1974 – Bell Set No. 1 (multiple metal percussion)
- 1976 – 1–100 (4–6 pianos)
- 1976 – (First) Waltz in D (variable)
- 1976 – (Second) Waltz in F (variable)
- 1977 – In Re Don Giovanni (for the Michael Nyman Band) – arranged for string quartet (1991), string quintet (1997), and orchestra (2010)
- 1977 – A Walk Through H (film music)
- 1978 – The Otherwise Very Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz (multiple pianos)
- 1978 – Vertical Features Remake (film music)
- 1979 – ’The Masterwork’ Award Winning Fish-Knife (for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 1979 – Four Ostinatos (bass clarinet)
- 1979 – Masterwork Samples (for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 1980 – A Neat Slice of Time (choir)
- 1980 – A Neat Slice of Saraband (clarinet, trombone, piano and cello)
- 1985 – The Falls (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 1980 – Act of God (film music)
- 1981 – Think Slow, Act Fast (for Hoketus) – reworked into soundtrack for A Sixth Part of the World in 2010
- 1981 – Five Orchestral Pieces for Opus Tree (band)[23] (based on Anton Webern’s Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10)
- 1981 – M-Work (for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 1981 – Two Violins (two amplified violins)
- 1982 – Four Saxes (Real Slow Drag) (saxophone quartet)
- 1982 – A Handsom, Smooth, Sweet, Smart, Clear Stroke: Or Else Play Not At All (orchestra)
- 1982 – The Draughtsman’s Contract (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 1983 – Ballet Mécanique (ensemble)
- 1983 – Time’s Up (Gamelan ensemble)
- 1983 – I’ll Stake My Cremona to a Jew’s Trump (electric violin and viola, both players also simultaneously singing)
- 1983 – Love is Certainly, at Least Alphabetically Speaking (soprano and ensemble)
- 1983 – Ballet Mécanique (film music for ensemble)
- 1983 – Nelly’s Version (film music)
- 1983 – Frozen Music (for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 1984 – The Abbess of Andouillets (choir and percussion)
- 1984 – Bird Work (for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 1984 – The Cold Room (film music for chamber orchestra)
- 1985 – Nose-List Song (soprano and orchestra) [this and the above three works are from an unfinished opera setting of Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, which Nyman has repeatedly cited as his all-time favourite book]
- 1985 – Childs Play (2 violins and harpsichord or ensemble)
- 1985 – String Quartet No. 1
- 1985 – A Zed and Two Noughts (film music for ensemble)
- 1985 – Memorial (orchestra)
- 1985 – Zoo Caprices (violin)
- 1986 – Basic Black (ballet for orchestra, reduced for piano duet as Taking a Line for a Second Walk in 1994)
- 1986 – The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera; libretto by Christopher Rawlence; adapted from the Oliver Sacks case study by Nyman, Rawlence, and Michael Morris)
- 1986 – And Do They Do (for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 1986 – The Disputation (film music)
- 1987 – Touch the Earth (two sopranos, violin, and viola)
- 1987 – Vital Statistics (opera; libretto by Victoria Hardie) – withdrawn and revised into Facing Goya in 2000
- 1988 – Orpheus’ Daughter (opera; libretto by Gerrit Timmers) – withdrawn
- 1988 – String Quartet No. 2
- 1988 – Drowning by Numbers (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 1989 – Out of the Ruins (choir)
- 1989 – La Traversée de Paris (for the Michael Nyman Band, soprano, and choir)
- 1989 – The Fall of Icarus (for the Michael Nyman Band) – reworked into The Commissar Vanishes in 1999
- 1989 – L’Orgie Parisienne (soprano or mezzo-soprano and ensemble) – originally part of La Traversée de Paris
- 1989 – La Sept (for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 1989 – Death in the Seine (film music)
- 1989 – The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 1990 – Shaping the Curve (soprano saxophone, string quartet or piano)
- 1990 – Six Celan Songs (contralto and orchestra)
- 1990 – Polish Love Song (soprano and piano or two clarinets, viola, cello and bass)
- 1990 – String Quartet No. 3
- 1990 – Men of Steel (TV episode music)
- 1991 – Where the Bee Dances (soprano saxophone and orchestra)
- 1991 – Fluegelhorn and Piano
- 1991 – Prospero’s Books (film music for the Michael Nyman Band), Concert Suite for chamber orchestra arranged in 1994
- 1991 – Letters, Riddles and Writs (3 voices and the Michael Nyman Band)
- 1991 – Masque Arias (brass quintet)
- 1991 – The Final Score (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 1991 – I am an Unusual Thing (contralto and the Michael Nyman Band or piano)
- 1992 – Time Will Pronounce (violin, cello, and piano)
- 1992 – For John Cage (brass ensemble)
- 1992 – Self-Laudatory Hymn of Inanna and Her Omnipotence (alto and string orchestra or countertenor and viol consort)
- 1992 – The Convertibility of Lute Strings (solo harpsichord)
- 1992 – Anne de Lucy Songs (soprano and piano)
- 1992 – Le Mari de la Coiffeuse (film music)
- 1992 – The Upside-Down Violin (orchestra/ensemble)
- 1992 – Mozart on Mortality (soprano and 6 players)
- 1992 – The Piano (film music for orchestra), arranged for concert suites in 2003 and 2005
- 1992 – Ariel Songs (soprano and piano, also for voice and string quartet, or saxophone and piano)
- 1993 – MGV: Musique à grande vitesse (band and orchestra)
- 1993 – The Piano Concerto (piano and orchestra)
- 1993 – Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs (1993; opera-ballet setting William Shakespeare’s The Tempest)
- 1993 – Yamamoto Perpetuo (violin solo)
- 1993 – Songs for Tony (saxophone quartet)
- 1993 – On the Fiddle (violin or cello, and piano or strings)
- 1994 – To Morrow (soprano or soprano saxophone, organ)
- 1994 – 3 Quartets (ensemble)
- 1994 – Concerto for Trombone (trombone, orchestra, and steel filing cabinets)
- 1994 – A La Folie (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 1994 – Carrington (for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 1994 – Three Quartets (for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 1995 – String Quartet No. 4
- 1995 – Tango for Tim (In memoriam Tim Suster) (harpsichord)
- 1995 – The Waltz Song (unison voices)
- 1995 – Viola and Piano
- 1995 – Grounded (mezzo-soprano, saxophones, violin, piano)
- 1995 – HRT [High Rise Terminal] (chamber ensemble)
- 1995 – Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings
- 1995 – Double Concerto for Saxophone and Cello (saxophone, cello, and orchestra)
- 1995 – The Diary of Anne Frank (film music for the Michael Nyman Band, also orchestral suite)
- 1996 – After Extra Time (ensemble)
- 1996 – Enemy Zero (game music for soprano and orchestra)
- 1996 – The Ogre (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 1996 – Elisabeth Gets Her Way (harpsichord)
- 1996 – Knights at School (brass ensemble)
- 1997 – Enemy Zero – Original Soundtrack
- 1997 – Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks (orchestra)
- 1997 – Gattaca, orchestral suite in 2001/2003
- 1997 – Titch (worked on the main opening/closing piano theme).
- 1998 – Cycle of Disquietude (Coisas, Vozes, Lettras) (soprano, mezzo-soprano, and band)
- 1998 – Orfeu (band)
- 1998 – De Granada A La Luna (band)
- 1999 – The End of the Affair (film music, also orchestral suite)
- 1999 – Wonderland (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 1999 – Balancing the Books (choir)
- 1999 – Strange Attractors (piano quintet)
- 2000 – Facing Goya (opera; libretto by Victoria Hardie)
- 2000 – Act Without Words (film music)
- 2000 – The Claim (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 2001 – a dance he little thinks of (orchestra)
- 2001 – Fourths, Mostly (organ)
- 2001 – Free for All (brass ensemble)
- 2001 – Mosè (choir and string quartet)
- 2001 – Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi (soprano and string quartet or string orchestra)
- 2002 – 24 heures de la vie d’une femme (film music for orchestra)
- 2002 – Beckham Crosses, Nyman Scores (string quartet and tape), derive Exit, No Exit for bass clarinet and string quartet in 2005
- 2002 – Dance of the Engines (orchestra)
- 2002 – Mapping (video art music for string quartet)
- 2002 – Sangam: The Meeting Point (mandolin and the Michael Nyman Band)
- 2002 – The Actors (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 2002 – Yellow Beach (piano trio)
- 2002 – Zeit und Ziel 1814–2002 (for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 2003 – Violin Concerto (violin and orchestra)
- 2003 – Man and Boy: Dada (opera; libretto by Michael Hastings)
- 2003 – A Child’s View of Colour (choir and strings)
- 2003 – Manhatta (for the Michael Nyman Band or bass clarinet or soprano and bass clarinet)
- 2004 – 24 Hour Sax Quartet
- 2004 – Flicker (electronic guitar and electronics)
- 2004 – The Libertine (film music for orchestra)
- 2004 – Photography of Chance (piano trio)
- 2005 – Love Counts (opera; libretto by Michael Hastings)
- 2005 – Melody Waves (Chinese orchestra)
- 2005 – Revisiting the Don (Chinese flute and the Michael Nyman Band)
- 2006 – gdm for Marimba and Orchestra (concerto)
- 2006 – Acts of Beauty (song cycle for soprano and 6 players)
- 2006 – For Kiyan Prince (choir)
- 2006 – I was a Total Virgin (orchestra)
- 2006 – That’s the Lover (voice and 5 players)
- 2007 – A Handshake in the Dark (choral piece with orchestra; text by Jamal Jumá [world premiere 8 March 2007, Barbican, London, performed by the BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, John Storgards conducting])
- 2007 – Interlude in C (expansion of a theme from The Libertine for Accent07 touring ensemble)
- 2007 – Warwick Fanfare (Parts 1 & 2) (procession and recession fanfares used for graduation ceremonies at the University of Warwick)
- 2007 – 50,000 pairs of feet can’t be wrong. (for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 2007 – A New Pavan For These Sad, Distracted Times (cello concerto)
- 2007 – I Sonetti Lussuriosi (soprano and ensemble or orchestra)
- 2007 – Piano Concerto No. 2
- 2007 – Violin Concerto No. 2
- 2007 – Taking it as Read (violin and piano)
- 2008 – Yamamoto Perpetuo for Solo Flute (arranged by Andy Findon)
- 2008 – Something Connected with Energy (ensemble) – reworked into soundtrack for The Eleventh Year in 2010
- 2008 – For Ennio (cello and strings)
- 2009 – Sparkie: Cage and Beyond (opera with Carsten Nicolai)
- 2009 – The Musicologist Scores (for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 2009 – Banjo & Matilda (for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 2009 – Kino (3 accordions and the Michael Nyman Band)
- 2009 – Ombra mai fu (countertenor and orchestra)
- 2009 – Secrets, Accusations and Charges (for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 2009 – Underneath the Hessian Bags (for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 2010 – 2Graves
- 2010 – Body Parts Songs (song cycle)
- 2010 – Concerto for Flute and Strings
- 2010 – Milton Songs (voice and the Michael Nyman Band)
- 2010 – Poczatek (piano trio)fPolish Love Son
- 2011 – Prologue to Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell (opera, libretto by Vera Pavlova)
- 2011 – Battleship Potemkin (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 2011 – Doing the Rounds (orchestra and choir)
- 2011 – On Languard Point (soprano and the Michael Nyman Band)
- 2011 – Let’s not make a song and dance out of it (String Quartet No. 5)
- 2012 – Through the Only Window (piano quintet)
- 2012 – Devoción (orchestra)
- 2013 – Trumpet & String Quartet
- 2013 – Goldberg Shuffle (piano)
- 2013 – Symphony No. 2
- 2013 – Symphony No. 5
- 2013 – Symphony No. 6
- 2013 – Water Dances (Symphony No. 8)
- 2014 – Symphony of sexual songs (Symphony No. 3)
- 2014 – War Work: Eight Songs with Film (song cycle commissioned to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the First World War)
- 2014 – Hillsborough Memorial (Symphony No. 11)
- 2014 – Symphony No. 12
- 2014 – Two Sonnets for Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (choir or voice)
- 2015 – Chromattic (saxophone, accordion, marimba and double bass)
- 2015 – Empresa Cines Merida (piano quintet)
- 2015 – Symphony No. 4
- 2016 – As You Watch The Athletes Score (for the Michael Nyman Band)
- 2016 – No Time In Eternity (countertenor and viol consort)
- 2019 – Flute Concerto No. 2 (flute and strings)
- 2019 – Neat Slice of Tango (piano)
- 2019 – When Ingrid Met Capa (string quartet)
Available on Island records, Chandos, Polydor and others
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