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Six Celan Songs • The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi
photograph by Michael Nyman design by Russell Mills and Michael Webster (artist)Michael Webster
Studio album by Michael Nyman
Released	July 31, 2006 (UK) June 24, 2008 (United States)
Recorded	28 and 29 November November 2005, Angel Recording Studios (Six Celan Songs) 20 January 2006, Angel Recording Studios (The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi)
Genre	Art song, contemporary classical, minimalist music
Length	53:57
Language	German (Six Celan Songs) English (The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi)
Label	MN Records
Producer	Michael Nyman
Michael Nyman chronology
The Composer's Cut Series Vol. III: The Piano (2006) Six Celan Songs • The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi (2006) Acts of Beauty • Exit no Exit (2006)

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Six Celan Songs • The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi is the 54th album released by Michael Nyman, who composed and conducted both the works on the album. The first, a setting of poetry by Paul Celan, was originally recorded by Ute Lemper and the Michael Nyman Band on The Michael Nyman Songbook in 1991, and here the band is joined by Hilary Summers. The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi is a new work created with the artist Mary Kelly. This is performed by the soprano Sarah Leonard with The Nyman Quartet: Gabrielle Lester, Catherine Thompson, Kate Musker and Tony Hinnigan.

Track listing

1. Chanson einer Dame im Schatten – 7.11
2. Es war Erde in ihnen – 4.57
3. Psalm – 3.42
4. Corona – 7.09
5. Nächtlich geschürzt – 6.47
6. Blume – 6.08
7. The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi - 17:43

Personnel

• Michael Nyman, conductor
• Gabrielle Lester, violin
• Catherine Thompson, violin
• Kate Musker, viola
• Tony Hinnigan, cello
• Nick Cooper, cello
• Chris Laurence, double bass
• Martin Elliott, bass guitar
• David Roach, soprano and alto saxophones
• Simon Haram, soprano and alto saxophones
• Robert Buckland, soprano and alto saxophones
• Andrew Findo, baritone saxophone, flute, piccolo
• Andrew Sparling, bass clarinet
• Steve Sidwell, trumpet
• Nigel Barr, bass trombone, euphonium
• David Arch, piano
• Hilary Summers, contralto
• Sarah Leonard, soprano
• Produced by Michael Nyman
• Recorded, mixed and edited by Austin Ince
• Assistant engineer (Six Celan Songs): James Stone
• Assistant engineer (The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi): Matthew Bartram
• Mixed at Abbey Road Studios 26 and 27 March 2006
• Assistant engineer: Robert Houston
• Mastered by Peter Mew at Abbey Road Studios
• Published by Chester Music Ltd 1991/2001
• Thanks to Ute Lamper, Volker Schlöndorff, Declan Colgan, Elsa Longhauser, Mary Kelly, The Photographers, Colette Barber at Abbey Road Studios, Viviana D'Ambrosio, Nigel Barr, Jane Carter
• Design by Russell Mills (shed)
• Co-design by Michael Webster (storm)
• Cover photography by Michael Nyman
• Liner notes: Michael Nyman, Michael Hamburger, Mary Kelly, Elsa Longhauser
• Celan translations: Michael Hamburger

External links

• Mary Kelly

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Michael Nyman Band members	Current Gabrielle Lester Catherine Thompson Kate Musker David Roach Simon Haram Andrew Findon Nigel Barr Dave Lee Steve Sidwell Martin Elliott Sarah Leonard Former Alexander Bălănescu John Harle Chris Laurence Ann Morfee Jonathan Carney Madeleine Mitchell Jamie Talbot Georgina Born Marjorie Dunn Beverley Davison Barry Guy John Greaves Andrew Shulman Michael Thompson Richard Watkins John Metcalfe Christian Forshaw Ute Lemper Marie Angel Hilary Summers Omar Ebrahim David Cunningham Molly Nyman
Nyman-produced albums	Decay Music 'The Masterwork' Award Winning Fish-Knife Michael Nyman The Draughtsman's Contract The Cold Room The Kiss and Other Movements A Zed & Two Noughts And Do They Do/Zoo Caprices The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Drowning by Numbers La Traversée de Paris The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover Out of the Ruins La Sept String Quartets 1–3 Prospero's Books The Michael Nyman Songbook The Hairdresser's Husband The Essential Michael Nyman Band Time Will Pronounce The Piano Michael Nyman for Yohji Yamamoto The Piano Concerto/MGV À la folie Live Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs Carrington The Diary of Anne Frank After Extra Time The Ogre Enemy Zero Concertos Gattaca The Suit and the Photograph Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks Practical Magic Ravenous Wonderland The Commissar Vanishes Nabbie's Love The End of the Affair The Claim String Quartets 2, 3 & 4/If & Why Facing Goya 24 Heures de la vie d'une femme Sangam: Michael Nyman Meets Indian Masters The Actors Man and Boy: Dada The Piano Sings The Libertine The Composer's Cut Series Vol. I: The Draughtsman's Contract The Composer's Cut Series Vol. II: Nyman/Greenaway Revisited The Composer's Cut Series Vol. III: The Piano Six Celan Songs • The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi Acts of Beauty • Exit no Exit Nyman Brass Love Counts Mozart 252 8 Lust Songs: I Sonetti Lussuriosi The Glare Acoustic Accordions
Nyman-contributed albums	The Pavilion of Dreams The Sensual World Piano Circus Taking a Line for a Second Walk Twentieth-Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward Generation Sex
Compilations	Pure Moods The Very Best of Michael Nyman: Film Music 1980–2001 Man on Wire
Additional operas	Tristram Shandy Letters, Riddles and Writs Vital Statistics La Princesse de Milan
Unreleased film scores	Vertical Features Remake The Falls Brimstone and Treacle Ballet Mécanique Monsieur Hire Mesmer Katie and Orbie Titch Act Without Words I Man with a Movie Camera Nathalie... À propos de Nice A Cock and Bull Story
Major individual compositions	Memorial MGV
Family	Molly Nyman (daughter)
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