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Radio 3,19 Nov 2022,21 mins

Michael Nyman

Sound of Cinema

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With the remastered cinematic and digital re-release of The Draughtsman's Contract, marking forty years since it first appeared, Matthew Sweet looks back on the film music career of the man who created its much-loved score, Michael Nyman. He charts his long association with director Peter Greenaway, his foray into the Hollywood, and his work with European and experimental cinema. The programme features music from The Falls, The Ogre, A La Folie, Gattaca, The Piano, Carrington, Ravenous, The Libertine, Wonderland, A Zed and Two Noughts, The Cook The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Drowning by Numbers, Prospero's Books, and The Draughtsman's Contract.

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