The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover


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Film | Rok: 1989 | Uwolnienie filmu: 1989 | Format: CD, Pobieranie, Płyta winylowa
 

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# Tor Artysta/Kompozytor Czas
1.Memorial12:01
2.Miserere ParaphraseAlexander Balanescu5:40
3.Book Depository5:41
4.Coupling5:15
5.Miserere11:33
 40:10
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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover - 08/10 - Przegląd wersji Tom Daish, zgłoszone w (Język angielski)
Given the title and a listen to the soundtrack CD, it is usually reasonably easy to determine the tone of a film based on the music composed for it. However, in the case of The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, the music brings to mind little of the film's content or tone. This is not a pleasant movie and caused outrage, in both the US and UK, and concerns itself with a thief, who owns the restaurant in which most of the film is set, his wife, her lover - one of the restaurant's patrons - and of course the cook at the restaurant. The characters are larger than life, but in a sharply drawn and satirical way, set in amongst striking production and subject to graphic depictions of sex and violence (both verbal and physical). It is curious that Michael Nyman's score is not especially violent, quirky or colourful, but a more thoughtful meditation, concluding with an a capella choral track that seems more fitting for a Royal funeral than Peter Greenaway's lurid (in the best possible way) film.

Despite its dramatic title, Memorial is a somewhat offbeat start, with the typical Nyman strings and saxes very prominent, largely made up of short groups of repeated notes. A trumpet solo gives lends it a surprisingly Morricone inspired flavour at times, although the woozy backing is very much more typical Nyman invention. At 12 minutes, it does threaten to outstay its welcome, not perhaps by its repetitiveness - although it is rather too samey in tone and content given its length - but through its sheer insistence which becomes a little wearing after a while. As the title suggests, Miserere Paraphrase takes the material of the opening and closing tracks, subjecting it to a gorgeous arrangement for piano and violin in Miserere Paraphrase. Book Depository continues the more intimate flavour, ostensibly because the Nyman Band is smaller in number than usual, but the intensity is most affecting, likewise in the even more despairing Coupling.

Perhaps the most striking think about the concluding Miserere is that it doesn't sound like it's by Nyman at all. Admittedly, much of Nyman's sound is conjured by his orchestration and the particular tone of the Michael Nyman Band. However, the Miserere is performed by the London Voices, unaccompanied, and has a beautiful, elegiac tone that never falters. The vocal element gives it an even more intense, almost plain song style, than the earlier Paraphrase and results in one of Nyman's most beautiful single pieces, even if it doesn't have the obvious cyclic patterns of pure minimalism as the music is fairly slow moving and the overall architecture is much less obvious. The Miserere itself seems somewhat detached from the sound world of the rest of the score, but at 11 and a half minutes, is substantial enough to create its own sound world and stand on its own. For Greenaway's most subversive (and that's saying something) film, perhaps Nyman's most deeply felt score, if a little hard work at times, but one that pays on repeat listens.


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