The Draughtsman's Contract
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Track listing
- A1 Queen of the Night 6:09
- A2 The Disposition of the Linen 4:47
- A3 A Watery Death 3:31
- A4 The Garden Is Becoming a Robe Room 6:05
- B1 Chasing Sheep Is Best Left to Shepherds 2:33
- B2 An Eye for Optical Theory 5:09
- B3 Bravura in the Face of Grief 12:16
- Total length: 40:30
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The Draughtsman's Contract [p] Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Meurtre dans un jardin anglais 33 rpm, Film Score, Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Meurtre dans un jardin anglais 33 rpm, Film Score
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The Draughtsman's Contract 33 rpm
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1989
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The Draughtsman's Contract Film Score, Motion Picture Soundtrack
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The Draughtsman's Contract Content/Copy Protected, Digipak, Remastered
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The Draughtsman's Contract Limited Edition
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While Wonderland is my favourite Nyman score - and his own apparently - I do love this one, which nicks Henry Purcell's stately, stoic lower voices for something more hypnotic and relentless.
The result, as Neil Hannon put it, 'rocks' - punk in breeches. There's aggression in the sheer bloody-minded measuredness of it all, with every slash of bow on string, every clangorous blow upon the harpsichord, every bar-line tightening home another harmonic screw. Perfect, then, for Greenaway's anachronisms, his mathematics, through which move his beauty-marked grotesques.
The result, as Neil Hannon put it, 'rocks' - punk in breeches. There's aggression in the sheer bloody-minded measuredness of it all, with every slash of bow on string, every clangorous blow upon the harpsichord, every bar-line tightening home another harmonic screw. Perfect, then, for Greenaway's anachronisms, his mathematics, through which move his beauty-marked grotesques.
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This is a strikingly unusual soundtrack, and I have thought so from the first time I heard it (while watching the film). It is a mix of minimalist composition with some older classical instruments and styles. It works very well both as the background to an interesting film and as a stand-alone album.
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A1
Queen of the Night
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A2
The Disposition of the Linen
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A3
A Watery Death
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A4
The Garden Is Becoming a Robe Room
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B1
Chasing Sheep Is Best Left to Shepherds
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B2
An Eye for Optical Theory
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B3
Bravura in the Face of Grief
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Based on Mozartian themes Nyman's music was the perfect foil for Peter Greenaway's stylised (some may say pretentious) period drama.
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The bass of Henry Purcell meets Minimalism through a skilled modern composer.
Delightful as it is irritatingly monotonous at times!
Delightful as it is irritatingly monotonous at times!
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