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The Piano Sings
photograph by Michael Nyman design by Russell Mills and Michael Webster
Studio album by Michael Nyman
Released	2 May 2005 (UK) September 29, 2008 (United States)
Recorded	12–14 February 2005
Genre	Chamber music, contemporary classical, minimalism, film music
Length	49:39
Label	MN Records
Producer	Declan Colgan
Michael Nyman chronology
Man and Boy: Dada (2005) The Piano Sings (2005) The Libertine (2005)

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The Piano Sings is a 2005 solo album by Michael Nyman featuring personal interpretations of film music he wrote between 1993 and 2003. It is his second release on his own label, MN Records, and his 49th release overall. The album was released alongside a concert tour.

Nyman's February 2005 statement about the album printed within the booklet is very brief:

All my music starts out as piano music so the opportunity to get back to that essence appealed to me. Hence my desire to make this album a personal signature as a composer/performer. I have deliberately focused on my more song-like music: the album title suggested itself.

Track listing

1. Diary of Love (The End of the Affair)
2. If (The Diary of Anne Frank)
3. Franklyn (Wonderland)
4. The Morrow (Gattaca)
5. Jack (Wonderland)
6. The Heart Asks Pleasure First (The Piano)
7. Big my Secret (The Piano)
8. Debbie (Wonderland)
9. The Departure (Gattaca)
10. Why (The Diary of Anne Frank)
11. Odessa Beach (Man with a Movie Camera)
12. Lost and Found (The Piano)
13. The Exchange (The Claim)
14. Candlefire (The Diary of Anne Frank)
15. All Imperfect Things (The Piano)
16. Diary of Love (The End of the Affair)

Personnel

• Composed and performed by Michael Nyman
• Recorded, mixed and edited by Austin Ince at Whitfield Street Studios, London, 12–14 February 2005
• Assistant engineer: Phil Tyreman
• Produced by Declan Colgan
• Mastered by Peter Mew at Abbey Road Studios, London, 17 February 2005
• All music published by Chester Music Ltd./Michael Nyman Ltd., except 1, 4, 9, 16 published by Colpix Music Ltd., administered by Sony/ATV Songs LLC (BMI)
• Photography by Michael Nyman
• Photograph of Michael Nyman by John Fago
• Design by Russell Mills (shed)
• Co-design by Michael Webster (storm)
• Thanks to Elizabeth Lloyd, Rachel Thomas, Rebecca Duncan at Whitfield Street Studios, Lucy Launder at Abbey Road, Gareth Davies, Laurence Dunmore, Melane Mueller and Andrew Thompson.
• Thanks also to the directors of the respective films: Jane Campion, Neil Jordan, Akinora Nagaoka, Andrew Niccol, Dziga Vertov, Michael Winterbottom and lyricists Hachiro Konno and Roger Pulvers.

References

1. Music from the Movies review
2. Michael Church. "Michael Nyman: Piano, solo" The Independent. Thursday, 28 September 2006.

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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
Nyman-contributed albums	The Pavilion of Dreams The Sensual World Piano Circus Taking a Line for a Second Walk Twentieth-Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward Generation Sex
Compilations	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
Family	Molly Nyman (daughter)
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