20070715 - Conde Duque - Michael Nyman (1 de 6)

This is just pure awesomeness. I love this song, but I've never heard it being performed live. This version is so much more up-beat, it's almost jazz. haha And I thought I was hooked before...
Thanks very much for this upload :)

I love it.

This is not the version on the Essential Michael Nyman Band CD. That's a very different performance, much more free and spontaneous than this one and either very differently balanced or with some differences in orchestration. I like the one from the CD better.

same.
i think used some editing for the version on the cd...i still think its the same version though.

But the tempos are different, the balances are different, the sound of the high clarinet is different - much reedier there, more rounded here, and it sounds as if the part was rewritten for one clarinet (or whatever instrument) instead of the two on the CD. That's why I think it's different.

its a soprano saxophone, and michael nyman edited (as i said before) in a second one, (in musical terms, he doubled it), but there is a slight difference in the string part...however the fact that the tempo varies is just because michael nyman probably can't conduct like a computer, and get the tempo exactly the same each time he performs it. :)

By "version", I meant the performance recorded in Tokyo in 1992 issued on Argo. If you say Nyman's not able to conduct like a computer then you're agreeing that the two recordings are different since tempos can't change in different issues of the same performance :-)
Your point about soprano sax reinforces this. In the Argo the sort-of Klezmer line with the falling fourth is a back-and-forth between a pair of clarinets. I think this is different from Argo and the MN label remake.

This is a concert performance. That was a studio album recorded on a soundstage.