[2] The first appearance on a commercial recording was of the fifth movement, on the soundtrack of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover.
The piece incorporates and builds on a musical sequence from "What Power Art Thou”, an aria from the opera King Arthur by Henry Purcell.
[1] Michael Nyman also mentioned that Memorial was built upon a piece of his soundtrack for Peter Greenaway's film A Zed and Two Noughts titled Time Lapse.
After Extra Time and The Very Best of Michael Nyman: Film Music 1980-2001 are reissues of the Essential and soundtrack versions, respectively.
The second and fourth appear on the limited edition album, La Traversée de Paris.