Michael Laurence Nyman is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist, and musicologist. His output is recognized for numerous film scores, many developed through a sustained collaboration with filmmaker Peter Greenaway, alongside the multi-platinum soundtrack for The Piano. Nyman often favors writing operas over other musical forms. He has also composed concerti and string quartets, frequently performed by his own Michael Nyman Band, for whom he also performs as a pianist.
(Piano). Water Dances is a work scored for two pianos from 2011. Much of the work is an arrangement of the music written for the Michael Nyman Band for Peter Greenaway's 1984 film Making a Splash . The two-piano version was recorded by the Labeque sisters for their CD Minimalist Dream House on the KML/Deutsche Grammophon label.
Slovenský překlad publikace známého britského skladatele věnované především anglo-americké hudbě. Autor zkoumá tradici a vývoj experimentální hudby vyrůstající po 2. světové válce zejména z myšlenek amerického skladatele J. Cage.