1982 film score for the Peter Greenaway film, features 7 digitally remastered tracks, packaged in a digipak. Copy Controlled. Virgin. 2004.

Working alongside director Laurence Dunmore, Nyman has composed the music for his latest film - The Libertine. The film is a version of the celebrated Stephen Jeffreys play and stars Johnny Depp, John Malkovich and Samantha Morton. It tells the story of the 17th century Earl of Rochester (Depp), his friendship with King of England Charles II (Malkovich) and his affair with actress Elizabeth Barry (Morton).

The Earl of Rochester was a legendary rake of the era and the film has been described as "outrageously sexy". He managed to reconcile being a sensitive poet and a pornographer, was simultaneously a republican and friend of King Charles II and was passionately in love with both his wife and mistress. The film captures the sense of new possibilities at the dawn of the age of enlightenment.

This release includes "The Yellow Pages," the first movement of Telephone Book, composed while still a student at Yale in 1985, which explores a kind of musical alphabetic order. Also featured is July, for saxophone quartet.

"...A vigorous, tidy romp...with a bright kaleidoscopic jangle that was Torke's own." -Washington Post [Telephone Book] "Michael Torke's July is one of the most popular recent pieces for saxophone quartet." -Saxophone Journal.

"The harmonies and melodies are rich and surprising, the orchestration subtle and colorful." -American Record Guide [Change of Address].