- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (soundtrack)
Infobox Album
Name = The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover
Type = soundtrack
Longtype = fromThe Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover
Artist =Michael Nyman
Cover size = 200
Caption =
Released = 1989
Recorded =
Genre =Contemporary classical music ,film score ,minimalist music
Length = 40:26
Language = English
Label = Virgin Venture, Caroline
Director =
Producer = David Cunningham
Reviews =Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dzfuxqlgldte]
Compiler =
Chronology =
Last album =La Traversée de Paris
1989
This album =The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover
1989
Next album =Out of the Ruins
1989
Misc ="The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover" is the twelfth album release by
Michael Nyman and the ninth to feature theMichael Nyman Band . It is the soundtrack to the eponymousfilm byPeter Greenaway . The album includes the first commercially released recording of "Memorial" (Greenaway heard a radio recording of the original performance that has not been commercially released), and this is the only piece discussed in the liner notes, to the point that the lyric sheet for "Miserere" (based onPsalm 51 ), the song which Pup the kitchen boy sings, is misidentified "Memorial." "Book Depository" is one of Nyman's manywaltz es.Nyman does not here identify the origin of "Memorial" as a bass ground from
Henry Purcell 's "King Arthur", but he does so elswhere, including on "After Extra Time". The liner notes primarily note the 1985Heysel Stadium Disaster that occurred during the work's composition and became what the work was about and a discussion of the premiere of the work in a disusednuclear power plant inYainville beforePaul Richards 'spainting , "The Kiss", and its ultimate "dismantling," preventing it from being used to commemorate the 1989Sheffield Stadium Disaster .There is some music in the film that is not included on the soundtrack album: the love theme for Michael and Georgina, which is "Fish Beach" from "
Drowning by Numbers ", the song performed as a show in the restuarant, or a doubly-pulsed variation of "Memorial" that occurs about halfway through the film. Edits of "Memorial" appear throughout the film, with the entire twelve minute movement accompanying the final scene and end credits, but one variation is uniquely created for the film.Track listing
#Memorial
#Miserere Paraphrase
#Book Depository
#Coupling
#MisererePersonnel
"Memorial", "Book Depository," and "Coupling" performed by the
Michael Nyman Band :
*Alexander Balanescu ,violin
*Elisabeth Perry , violin
*Jonathan Carney , violin/viola
*Tony Hinnigan ,cello
*Chris Laurence (misspelled "Lawrence"),double bass
*David Fuest ,clarinet /bass clarinet
*John Harle , soprano/alto sax
*David Roach , alto sax
*Andrew Findon , tenor/baritone sax /flute
*Graham Ashton ,trumpet
*David Stewart ,trombone
*Michael Nyman ,piano , conductor
*Sarah Leonard ,soprano "Miserere Paraphrase" performed by Alexander Balanescu (violin) and Michael Nyman (piano)
"Miserere" performed by
London Voices , directorTerry Edwards
*Paul Chapman :boy soprano
*Elisabeth Harrison
*Judith Rees
*Sue Anderson
*Sarah Leonard
*Lesley Reid
*Doreen Walker
*Gareth Roberts
*Terry Edwards
*Simon Davies
*Gordon Jones
*Geoffrey Shaw *Produced by David Cunningham
*Recorded and Mixed atPRT Studios
*Engineer:Michael J. Dutton
*Assistant Engineer:Dillon Gallagher *"Miserere" recorded at
Marcus Studio
*Engineer:Tim Hunt
*Mixed atLandsdowne
*Engineer: Michael J. Dutton
*Assistant Engineer:Marsten Bailey *Representative to Michael Nyman:
Tony Simons
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