“No one divides the musical world quite like Michael Nyman. There are critics who shudder at the mere mention of his name. The public loves him; his score for Jane Campion’s film The Piano has become a fixture on [UK radio network] Classic FM… He has a whole team of agents and managers, he has his own recording company, and he lives in the heart of the Islington elite, a stone’s throw from Simon Rattle.” Now, Nyman is hitting the road, performing his own piano works for adoring throngs across Europe. “What’s surprising for anyone who remembers the blistering, relentlessly repetitive early Nyman is how soft and mellifluous the recent music has become… So can it be true that Nyman is really mellowing? Have all the old distancing devices been banished?”