Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs

Classical · 1995 · 20 tracks

Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs

Shakespeare's The Tempest reimagined as a rhythmic engine. Operatic voices soar over driving saxophones and Nyman's signature clockwork piano patterns.

1995 · Argo (2)

A restless and intellectual energy that transforms classical drama into a rhythmic, supernatural pulse.

Tracklist · 20 Tracks

01

Noises, sounds & Sweet airs: If by your art, my dearest father

4:02

02

Noises, sounds & Sweet airs: Alas, poor milan

3:31

03

Noises, sounds & Sweet airs: Be’t to fly, to swim

3:40

04

Noises, sounds & Sweet airs: This damned witch scyorax

4:37

05

Noises, sounds & Sweet airs: The fringed curtains of thine eye

4:35

06

Noises, sounds & Sweet airs: There’s nothing ill can dwell

2:46

07

Noises, sounds & Sweet airs: How lush and lusty the grass

3:12

08

Noises, sounds & Sweet airs: Riches, poverty, and use of service

2:21

09

Noises, sounds & Sweet airs: Sometime like apes

2:49

10

Noises, sounds & Sweet airs: Full many a lady i have eyed

4:35

11

Noises, sounds & Sweet airs: ’Tis a custom in the afternoon

5:37

12

Noises, sounds & Sweet airs: I have made you mad

4:15

13

Noises, sounds & Sweet airs: You do look, my son, in a moved sort

3:40

14

Noises, sounds & Sweet airs: At last i left them

1:30

15

Noises, sounds & Sweet airs: At this hour lie at my mercy

1:48

16

Noises, sounds & Sweet airs: Ye elves

6:56

17

Noises, sounds & Sweet airs: Behold, sir king

2:05

18

Noises, sounds & Sweet airs: Sir, she is mortal

1:42

19

Noises, sounds & Sweet airs: My tricksy spirit

3:03

20

Noises, sounds & Sweet airs: Coragio, bully-monster

5:51

Moments Worth Listening For

The interlocking vocal harmonies in track 10 creating a dizzying sense of romantic obsession.

The sudden shift to a driving, percussive saxophone rhythm that anchors the mystical atmosphere of track 11.

The hauntingly sparse opening of track 16 where the strings swell into a massive, mournful wall of sound.

Where This Album Departs

How does Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs sound next to the rest of Michael Nyman's catalogue?

Mythology+4.0σ

The writing leans far further into mythology than the rest of the catalogue.

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