Michael Nyman Remastered 30th anniversary edition (2012)/ Michael Nyman

"This reissue of Michael Nyman's second album from 1981, effectively his first with a Michael Nyman Band that included Alexander Balanescu and Roderick Skeaping, has aged well. Its industriously cycling Anglo-minimalism, couched in strings and reeds, is redolent of early Peter Greenaway films: "Bird List Song" is lovely, silly and serious the same time, like the film for which it was written, The Falls. The serio-comic tone helps sustain the music's appeal, compared to the joylessness of much American minimalism: this is music full of affirmative bustle, aware of its lurking pomposity, and not afraid to embrace the free-jazz squawks of Evan Parker and Peter Brötzmann on "Waltz"." (***** --Independent) "Nyman geldt voor velen als de Engelse evenknie van Philip Glass. Dat geldt vooral voor "M-Work", dat Nyman voor 't theaterwerk The Masterwork/Award-Winning Fishknife schreef. De partituur, van 2 uur, hier teruggebracht tot 20 minuten, werd, aardig treffend, de Engelse "Einstein on the Beach" genoemd." (Luister)