Out of the Ruins
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Out of the Ruins is a choral work by Michael Nyman
for an eponymous BBC documentary by Agnieszka Piotrowska
in commemorating the first anniversary of the 1988 Spitak earthquake in Armenia
7 December 1988, which aired on the BBC
's 40 Minutes
. The texts are from Grigor Narekatsi's Book of Lamentations
. It was conducted
by Khoren Meykhnanejian.
The album, Nyman's fourteenth, was the first release by Nyman on which he did not perform but did produce, was released by Silva Screen Records and all proceeds from the sale of the album were donated to Aid Armenia. The music becqme the basis of Nyman's String Quartet No. 3, which in turn became the basis of the score for Carrington
. It also appeared in part in À la folie
, in unreleased music from Practical Magic
, and in The End of the Affair
and The Claim
.
Michael Nyman
Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...
for an eponymous BBC documentary by Agnieszka Piotrowska
Agnieszka Piotrowska
Agnieszka Piotrowska is a BBC trained documentary filmmaker. She was amongst the 30 most successful creative Polish people featured in the recent exhibition at the Barbican¹s Museum of London entitled London Creatives/Polish Roots organised in conjunction with the Polish Cultural...
in commemorating the first anniversary of the 1988 Spitak earthquake in Armenia
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
7 December 1988, which aired on the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
's 40 Minutes
40 Minutes
40 Minutes was a BBC TV documentary strand broadcast on BBC Two between 1981 and 1994.Some documentaries in the original series were revisited and updated in a 2006 version, Forty Minutes On....
. The texts are from Grigor Narekatsi's Book of Lamentations
Book of Lamentations
The Book of Lamentations ) is a poetic book of the Hebrew Bible composed by the Jewish prophet Jeremiah. It mourns the destruction of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple in the 6th Century BCE....
. It was conducted
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
by Khoren Meykhnanejian.
The album, Nyman's fourteenth, was the first release by Nyman on which he did not perform but did produce, was released by Silva Screen Records and all proceeds from the sale of the album were donated to Aid Armenia. The music becqme the basis of Nyman's String Quartet No. 3, which in turn became the basis of the score for Carrington
Carrington (film)
Carrington is a biographical film written and directed by Christopher Hampton about the life of the English painter Dora Carrington , who was known simply as "Carrington"...
. It also appeared in part in À la folie
À la folie
The music by Michael Nyman has been praised as one of his better works, and considered unusually buried in the sound mix of the film. The album is Nyman's 23rd release, and the fourteenth with the Michael Nyman Band...
, in unreleased music from Practical Magic
Practical Magic
Practical Magic is a 1998 American fantasy film directed by Griffin Dunne and starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as witches who carry on a family legacy of witchcraft and tragedy. The film is based on a book of the same name by Alice Hoffman...
, and in The End of the Affair
The End of the Affair (1999 film)
Michael Nyman would later use "Diary of Love" to open and close his solo album, The Piano Sings . As with many of Nyman's 1990s scores, he incorporates material from his String Quartet No.3, which was in turn based on a choral piece titled Out of the Ruins.-Track listing:#Diary of Hate 2:38#Henry...
and The Claim
The Claim
The Claim is a 2000 British Western/romance film directed by Michael Winterbottom. The screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce is loosely based on the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. The original music score is composed by Michael Nyman....
.
Personnel
- Performed by the Holy Echmiadzin Chorus
- Conduced by Khoren Meykhanejian
- 40 Minutes40 Minutes40 Minutes was a BBC TV documentary strand broadcast on BBC Two between 1981 and 1994.Some documentaries in the original series were revisited and updated in a 2006 version, Forty Minutes On....
Editor: Caroline Pick
- Location Sound Recordist: David Briscome (BBC TV)
- Post Production: PRT Studios, LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
- Engineer: Michael J. Dutton
- Produced by David Cunningham and Michael Nyman
- Special thanks to Ian Amos and George Kurkjian, OBE
- Executive Producer for Silva Screen Records Ltd: Reynold Da Silva
- CD Release Supervision: David Stoner and James FitzpatrickJames FitzpatrickThis article is about the Australian medical student. For other persons named James Fitzpatrick, see James Fitzpatrick.James Fitzpatrick is an Australian medical science student at the University of New South Wales notable for his advocacy of rural and indigenous health issues...
- Photographs: Agniezka Piotrowska
- Cover graphic design: Iain MacdonaldIain MacDonaldIain MacDonald is an Irish serial entrepreneur. Iain founded Perlico in 2003 and was CEO as it developed into Ireland's leading alternative provider of consumer broadband before selling to Vodafone in 2007 in a $100m deal....
- CD layout: The One Hand Clapping Company
- Translation and transliteration of choral text: Mark Sarafyan