I love this piece and you played it beautifully

Absolutely beautiful!   And such a depth of emotion from so young a musician is truly a miracle.

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Performed by the New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble on 17 February 2013, Steven Graff, pianist and Timothy Hutto, conductor at Julia Richman Education Complex Auditorium in New York City.  For more information, see www.nysae.net/past-concerts.html.

Mozart Piano Concerto No 21 in C major, K 467 Movement 1, Allegro maestoso

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

Schubert - Serenade "Leise Flehen Meine Lieder"

Piano Improvisation #94

This is one of the greatest masterpieces that Chopin wrote in my opinion. This piece has always conveyed a very specific scenario to me. I imagine a person who's dying of an extremely painful disease in a hospital but doctors end up giving the patient very strong pain medication like morphine. This is when the piece starts. A symbol of someone looking back at their life in a state of awe and serenity. The fear of death strikes but it soon fades away into the feeling of wonder. As the piece progresses and reaches its last bars the person takes their last breath at the top note of the ascending 6ths, and then they die accepting that they had lived a beautiful and worthy life. Virtually all of Chopin's work revolves around death. Him dying, everyone around him dying, him dying emotionally and dying to the world. But out of all his pieces there are few that accept the reality as much as this one. I hope you enjoy this timeless music and it can be a blessing to you.. 

Chopin - Nocturne Op.27 No.2 - Played by AJ Long

Magayon means “beautiful” in the Bicol language of the Philippines, and it forms part of the name of Daragang Magayon—literally “beautiful maiden”—the central character in the origin myth of Mount Mayon, an active volcano that overlooks my birthplace: the Philippine province of Albay. According to the myth, Magayon, having previously rejected many powerful suitors from distant villages, was set to marry the chieftain Ulap. But as preparations began for a grand, festive wedding, the jealous hunter Pagtuga intervened, holding Magayon’s father hostage and setting off a brief but deadly skirmish.

When all of the main characters died—most tragically Magayon herself, who was hit by a stray arrow—the entire village went from celebratory anticipation of the wedding to mourning. The maiden was laid to rest on a grave next to her husband-to-be, which the villagers were alarmed to find rising higher and higher each day, accompanied by earthquakes and muffled rumblings of the earth. At last a crater formed, spewing hot ash and rocks.

My piece is concerned less with depicting the myth in its entirety and more with the emotional journey that the story evokes. I kept in mind Mount Mayon’s near-perfect cone in shaping the piece: its three sections (fast–slow–fast) are of roughly equal length and form an almost symmetrical arc, flowing seamlessly from one to the next. I also place less emphasis on the tragedy of the myth, and more on my own sense of wonder toward the mythology of my home country; hence, the piece, though brutal at times, ultimately comes to a triumphant close.


Magayon (Juilliard Orchestra)

"Prelude to Making Tellus"
Recording of performance by Andrew R. Munn, bass; Rami Sarieddine, piano; Julian Lambert, contrabass | May 1, 2015.

This piece is a small teaser/prelude to multi-media opera "Making Tellus: An Opera for the Anthropocene".

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Text:

Word-tipped arrows and song-made gods,
Let loose in the multitude of voices,
Weaving and rending, words forged in the hearth.

-Andrew R. Munn, 2015 [used with permission of the author].


Genesis 11:6 (King James Bible):

And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; 
and thus they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, 
which they have imagined to do.

Prelude to Making Tellus (2015) for bass voice, piano, and contrabass

AJ Theme

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Suite for Orchestra, Prelude - Lento, misterioso e tranquillo

The complete Préludes, Books I and II, of Claude Debussy.

Pianist: Robert Dvorkin
Recorded live in Montreal.

Book I
I. Danseuses de Delphes
II. Voiles
III. Le vent dans la plaine
IV. «Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir»
V. Les collines d'Anacapri
VI. Des pas sur la neige
VII. Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest
VIII. La fille aux cheveux de lin
IX. La sérénade interrompue
X. La cathédrale engloutie
XI. La danse de Puck
XII. Minstrels

Book II
I. Broulliards
II. Feuilles mortes
III. La puerta del Vino
IV. «Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses»
V. Bruyères
VI. Général Lavine – eccentric
VII. La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune
VIII. Ondine
IX. Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C.
X. Canope
XI. Les tierces alternées
XII. Feux d'artifice

Preludes (Books I and II Complete)

Claude Debussy: Préludes, Books I and II

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Chopin - Waltz L'adieu in A-flat major, Op. 69 No. 1

More on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lKofYUaDTk

Chopin – Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2

i cleaned up some hesitations in the original recording. i tend to pause a lot when i play. trying to think of the next line.

Nauticus - piano comprovisation

Frederick Chopin - Prelude Op. 28 No.15 "Raindrop"

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Chopin - Nocturne Op.27 No.2 - Played by AJ Long

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