Out of the Ruins

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Out of the Ruins
photograph by Agnieszka Piotrowska design by Iain Macdonald
Soundtrack album by Michael Nyman
Released	1989
Recorded	2 October 1989, , Armenia
Genre	Contemporary classical music, choral music
Length	20:42
Language	Armenian
Label
Producer	David Cunningham, Michael Nyman
Michael Nyman chronology
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) Out of the Ruins (1989) La Sept (1989)

Out of the Ruins is a choral work by Michael Nyman for an eponymous BBC documentary^[1] by Agnieszka Piotrowska in commemorating the first anniversary of the 1988 Spitak earthquake in Armenia 7 December 1988, which aired on the BBC's 40 Minutes. The texts are from Grigor Narekatsi's Book of Lamentations. It was conducted by .

The album, Nyman's fourteenth, was the first release by Nyman on which he did not perform but did produce, was released by and all proceeds from the sale of the album were donated to .^[2] The music became the basis of Nyman's String Quartet No. 3, which in turn became the basis of the score for Carrington. It also appeared in part in À la folie, in unreleased music from Practical Magic, and in The End of the Affair and The Claim.

Personnel[]

• Performed by the
• Conducted by
• 40 Minutes Editor:
• Location Sound Recordist: (BBC TV)
• Post Production: , London
• Engineer:
• Produced by David Cunningham and Michael Nyman
• Special thanks to and , OBE
• Executive Producer for Silva Screen Records Ltd:
• CD Release Supervision: and James Fitzpatrick
• Photographs:
• Cover graphic design: Iain Macdonald
• CD layout:
• Translation and transliteration of choral text:

References[]

External links[]

• DVD Out of the Ruins

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