The Kiss and Other Movements

The Kiss and Other Movements
painting by Paul Richards
Studio album by
Released1985
RecordedMusic Works, Paddy Kingsland Music Studio
GenreContemporary classical music, art song, opera recital, film music
Length44:11
LanguageEnglish
LabelEditions EG
ProducerMichael Nyman, David Cunningham
Michael Nyman chronology
The Cold Room
(1984)
The Kiss and Other Movements
(1985)
A Zed & Two Noughts
(1985)

The Kiss and Other Movements is the sixth[1] album release by Michael Nyman, and the fifth recording (fourth full album) with the Michael Nyman Band. The title track is an "operatic duet" between Dagmar Krause and Omar Ebrahim, based on a painting of the same title by Paul Richards, which is depicted on the cover, and used in a video art project by Richards of the same name. The album includes music from Peter Greenaway's Making a Splash and 26 Bathrooms (originally part of the concert work, Memorial), an excerpt of Nyman's unfinished opera, Tristram Shandy, and a concert piece, "Tango Between the Lines".

  1. ^ counting the withheld The Cold Room