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For this, his seventh soundtrack for director Peter Greenaway, Nyman deftly orchestrates a mix of strings, horns, and voices to produce another of his fetching and romantic minimalist backdrops. The opening "Memorial" is the highlight of the lot and drives along with stuttering saxophones, an insistent string arrangement, elegiac brass solos, and the soaring vocals of soprano Sarah Leonard (Leonard would be featured on a large part of the Prospero's Books soundtrack). The piece was originally inspired by a 1985 Belgian soccer match tragedy, in which 39 Italian fans were killed. Nyman utilized a death march in his earlier Greenaway collaboration, Drowning by Numbers, and revives the scheme to great effect here for what would become the main theme of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover. Nyman contrasts the piece's climatic quality with two relatively sedate yet brooding numbers.

Kaamelott, pour la première fois en disque. La bande originale de Kaamelott – Premier Volet, le premier film de la trilogie cinématographique de la saga créée par Alexandre Astier sort le 27 novembre 2020 (Deutsche Grammophon). Composée et orchestrée par Alexandre Astier, elle réunit 115 artistes : l’Orchestre national de Lyon dirigé par Frank Strobel, le Chœur de chambre Spirito, les solistes Cyril Dupuy (cymbalum), Gabriel Rignol (théorbe) et Alexandre Astier lui-même (piano, guembri, ghungroo, cajón, dholak, hulusi).