Recording
| Facing Goya | ||||
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Album cover of 2002 recording, conducted by the composer. |
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| Studio album by Michael Nyman | ||||
| Released | November 26, 2002 | |||
| Recorded | June 2001, March 2002, May 2002 (Abbey Road Studios) May 2002 (Snake Ranch) |
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| Genre | Opera, Contemporary classical music, minimalism | |||
| Length | Disc 1: 71'56" Disc 2: 61'54" |
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| Language | English | |||
| Label | Warner Classics | |||
| Producer | Michael Nyman Austin Ince |
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| Source | Rating |
| MusicWeb International | (mostly favorable) |
A recording was released in 2002. It is Michael Nyman's 44th album. Alexander Balanescu left the band during the recording of this album, and his concertmaster seat awarded to Gabrielle Lester, who previously recorded with the band on La Sept (1989). Nyman's own label, MN Music, reissued the opera with a cover featuring his own photograph of a mass of dolls wrapped in plastic, in 2011. That edition contains a third disc with excerpts of Man and Boy: Dada and Love Counts.
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