Concertos (album)

Concertos is the 31st album by Michael Nyman, released in 1997 featuring three concerti commissioned from Nyman, the Mazda-sponsored Double Concerto for Saxophone and Cello, featuring John Harle and Julian Lloyd Webber, the Harpsichord Concerto for Elisabeth Chojnacka, and the Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra for Christian Lindberg. The album was intended as the first in a series of Nyman recordings, as it reads "NYMAN EDITION No1: Concertos" on the EMI label, but Nyman's only other release on EMI (until The Actors in 2003), The Suit and the Photograph does not have such designation. The album debuted when completely clear jewel cases were just coming in, and the inside back cover is colored solid red, with the series designation in the left area that was previously hidden by the tray. The Suit and the Photograph, however, was packaged in a standard grey-black tray. Said Nyman of EMI, "I didn't excite them, and they didn't excite me."

Michael Nyman
Michael Nyman Band
  • Gabrielle Lester
  • Catherine Thompson
  • Kate Musker
  • Tony Hinnigan
  • David Roach
  • Simon Haram
  • Andrew Findon
  • Nigel Barr
  • Dave Lee
  • Steve Sidwell
  • Martin Elliott
  • Sarah Leonard
Other people
  • Alexander Bălănescu
  • John Harle
  • Chris Laurence
  • Ann Morfee
  • Jonathan Carney
  • Madeleine Mitchell
  • Jamie Talbot
  • Georgina Born
  • Marjorie Dunn
  • Beverley Davison
  • Barry Guy
  • John Greaves
  • Andrew Shulman
  • Michael Thompson
  • Richard Watkins
  • John Metcalfe
  • Christian Forshaw
  • Ute Lemper
  • Marie Angel
  • Hilary Summers
  • Omar Ebrahim
  • David Cunningham
  • Molly Nyman
Nyman-produced
albums
  • Decay Music
  • 'The Masterwork' Award Winning Fish-Knife
  • Michael Nyman
  • The Draughtsman's Contract
  • The Cold Room
  • The Kiss and Other Movements
  • A Zed & Two Noughts
  • And Do They Do/Zoo Caprices
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
  • Drowning by Numbers
  • La Traversée de Paris
  • The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover
  • Out of the Ruins
  • La Sept
  • String Quartets 1–3
  • Prospero's Books
  • The Michael Nyman Songbook
  • The Hairdresser's Husband
  • The Essential Michael Nyman Band
  • Time Will Pronounce
  • The Piano
  • Michael Nyman for Yohji Yamamoto
  • The Piano Concerto/MGV
  • À la folie
  • Live
  • Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs
  • Carrington
  • The Diary of Anne Frank
  • After Extra Time
  • The Ogre
  • Enemy Zero
  • Concertos
  • Gattaca
  • The Suit and the Photograph
  • Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks
  • Practical Magic
  • Ravenous
  • Wonderland
  • The Commissar Vanishes
  • Nabbie's Love
  • The End of the Affair
  • The Claim
  • String Quartets 2, 3 & 4/If & Why
  • Facing Goya
  • 24 Heures de la vie d'une femme
  • Sangam: Michael Nyman Meets Indian Masters
  • The Actors
  • Man and Boy: Dada
  • The Piano Sings
  • The Libertine
  • The Composer's Cut Series Vol. I: The Draughtsman's Contract
  • The Composer's Cut Series Vol. II: Nyman/Greenaway Revisited
  • The Composer's Cut Series Vol. III: The Piano
  • Six Celan Songs • The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi
  • Acts of Beauty • Exit no Exit
  • Nyman Brass
  • Love Counts
  • Mozart 252
  • 8 Lust Songs: I Sonetti Lussuriosi
  • The Glare
  • Acoustic Accordions
  • Collections
  • The Composer's Cut Series Vol. IV: Vertov Sounds
Albums to which
Nyman contributed
(as composer
and/or performer)
  • Recent English Experimental Music
  • The Pavilion of Dreams
  • From The Kitchen Archives - New Music New York 1979
  • The Sensual World
  • Saxophone Works
  • John Harle's Saxophone Songbook
  • Piano Circus
  • The Contemporary Trumpet
  • Taking a Line for a Second Walk
  • Plus que Tango
  • Visions
  • First & Foremost
  • An Eye for a Difference
  • Pick It Up
  • Meeting Point: The Saxophone Concertos of Nyman, Heath and Torke
  • Twentieth-Century Blues: The Songs of Noel Coward
  • Generation Sex
  • The Golden Section
  • Faces
  • Ahn-Plugged
  • Groovebox
  • Moving On
Singles/EPs
  • Mozart/Webern
  • The Heart Asks Pleasure First/The Promise
  • Anohito no Waltz
  • In Re Don Giovanni
  • Enemy Zero Piano Sketches
Compilations
  • Michael Nyman
  • Pure Moods
  • The Very Best of Michael Nyman: Film Music 1980–2001
  • Man on Wire
Additional operas
  • Tristram Shandy
  • Letters, Riddles and Writs
  • Vital Statistics
  • La Princesse de Milan
Unreleased
film scores
  • Vertical Features Remake
  • The Falls
  • Brimstone and Treacle
  • Ballet Mécanique
  • Monsieur Hire
  • Mesmer
  • Katie and Orbie
  • Titch
  • Act Without Words I
  • Man with a Movie Camera
  • Nathalie...
  • À propos de Nice
  • A Cock and Bull Story
Major individual
compositions
  • Memorial
  • MGV
  • Les Disques du Crépuscule
  • Minimalist music
  • Systems music