Wonderland is the 38th album release by British composer Michael Nyman and the soundtrack to the 1999 film Wonderland. It is the first of many collaborations of Nyman with director Michael Winterbottom. For Winterbottom, Nyman would later perform excerpts of this score in 9 Songs, provide a score for The Claim, and arrangements and re-used tracks for A Cock and Bull Story. Nyman's daughter, Molly, has continued the family working relationship with Winterbottom, scoring The Road to Guantanamo with Harry Escott.
Nyman has said that the soundtrack to Wonderland is his favourite film score.BBC Radio 4 Film Programme, 5 December 2008 The New York Times compared the score to that of Stewart Copeland for Rumble Fish and said that "the rhythms are like a clock ticking" and that it is "alternately plaintive and mournful". The Guardian characterized it as "sumptuous, romantic". Senses of Cinema said the music was "heart-wrenching, full of tragic qualities, yet also extremely light".
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Personnel Michael Nyman BandBooklet of European release, Virgin – catalogue number 7243 8 48207 2 5 Jackie Shave, Beverley Davison, Jonathan Rees, Katherine Shave, Sophie Landon, Fran Andrade, Miranda Fullylove, Jonathan Evan-Jones, violin William Hawkes, Andrew Parker, Kate Musker, viola Anthony Hinnigan, Sophie Harris, cello Paul Morgan, contrabass David Roach, soprano saxophone Simon Haram, soprano & alto saxophone Andrew Findon, tenor baritone saxophone, flute Martin Elliott, bass guitar David Lee, French horn Steve Sidwell, trumpet Nigel Barr, trombone Michael Nyman, piano, conducting produced by Michael Nyman
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