Name: Love Story by Alexandru Sorin Ciobanu Al Rufei in Random Keys
Duration: 6 min 5 s
Description: Here’s my heartfelt take on “Love Story” by Andy Williams—a classic reimagined with love and soul. This rendition is dedicated to my wifey, Meem, for Valentine’s Day, celebrating the timeless magic of love. I poured all my passion into this version, and I truly hope you all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it. Happy listening and Happy Valentine’s Day!

A beautiful rendition of "Love Story" to dedicate to your wife. Wonderful performance!

beautiful piano play: a nice interpretation od a clasic

Such a heartfelt piece, and you played it perfectly with such a dramatic elegance

This make drift away inside your thoughts so deep I forgot how hypnotic music can be! Thank You! For The Excellent Musically Journey!!!

This track feels like a handwritten love letter slipped into a piano, timeless, tender, and blooming with every note 💌 You can hear the care in every phrase, like the keys were kissed before being played 🎹 It’s romantic without trying too hard, graceful without losing warmth, and clearly made with love 💨 The kettle let out a dreamy sigh, “If this played in the background, I might finally confess to the toaster” 🧀 The grater rolled its eyes and muttered, “Ugh, I’m shredded emotionally and I didn’t even want to feel today” 🧽 The dishwasher paused mid cycle, whispering, “This track could rinse the bitterness off a decade old heart” A beautiful Valentine wrapped in piano notes, honestly, Meem’s got herself a keeper 💘

wow! can feel the love the ups an downs of a relationship straight through this piece.  incredible stuff!

Music isn't mine, isn't yours but we belong to the Music!

Random Keys

Excited to have the time to work on this theme that I composed a while back. This recording is a one take not the final version.

I want to continue the tradition and to take you from the first moments of creating a song, then being improved and then to the final versions.

Enjoy! 😉😊🤗

I dedicate it to my Wifey Meem which has been always my inspiration and my shoulder.

The Journey - 24.04.2024, 11.14 raw.wav

The return. (To my amazing wifey Meem)

I composed it a little after New Year’s Eve 2024 it’s one of my newest tracks.

It is maybe the final version or one of. It is mostly one take Piece, with a few minor track re-recordings, and it was intended so. 😊


Copyright 2023 Alexandru Sorin Ciobanu Al Rufei

However of the copyright, I would be more than happy if this composition would be transformed by another musician with the little request I believe, that my name should be mentioned as the composer.
Thanks!!

I don’t believe in copyright though!! 🙂

As in the end it’s not that music belongs to us it’s that we belong to the Music.

Enjoy! 😉🤗

Update:- some instruments edits with Logic Pro. august 2025

thanks for listening

Leave in the comments how this song made you feel and please share for more people to hear it.

thank you.

Alexandru

The return

Composed by myself in 2005, I had the pleasure to record it once more in a new fresh vision today, 25 April 2024.

Enjoy!

Dedicated to all of you but especially to my wifey Meem and my mom who have been my strongest supporters.

Thank you!

Undulating in the Sunshine. April 25'th 2024 version

2 years after creating it and finally, Le Grand Pirouette, my composition, continues to evolve I believe!
As I have already mentioned, my purpose isn’t to record 0 mistakes, flawless, or even edited recordings BUT TO TAKE YOU ON THE JOURNEY from when it appears in my mind and my heart and then slowly emerges and shines in something new every time.
A new recording is pending 😄
Let me know in the comments your feedback!
Thanks!
Alex
P.S. Inspired by the beautiful Ballerinas during the actual Pirouette exercise and the hard work and dedication of the brilliant Ballet Teachers Colleagues  from Liceul de Coregrafie "Floria Capsali" #bucharest #romania

Le Grand Pirouette 14 May 1st Take  - 15.05.2024, 21.18

Hello my good people! 🤗

Here you have my latest recording done in one take 2 days ago which I named “Just a thought”

Hope you will enjoy it! 🙂

Just a thought - 28.05.2024, 22.46.wav

To the memory of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
The guitar sound is very rudimentary, like the ‘heavier-than-air’ machine that first lifted off the ground with a pilot on board in late 1903.

Cover picture: first successful flight of the Wright Flyer. 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress - cph.3a53266)

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Composed by Michele Ansani (2025).
Posted on SoundCloud: 2025, January 17.

Will you fly with me? *

Here’s my heartfelt take on “Love Story” by Andy Williams—a classic reimagined with love and soul. This rendition is dedicated to my wifey, Meem, for Valentine’s Day, celebrating the timeless magic of love. I poured all my passion into this version, and I truly hope you all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it. Happy listening and Happy Valentine’s Day!

Love Story

This track is for Matilda ,an amazing artist ,whose kindness is overflowing .
Thank you so much Matilda ,you are an inspiration ,Thank you so much 
 Shine on .

Check out Matilda's Proud Dad ,and musical giant 

https://soundcloud.com/thebeautifuldark

Thank you both for making such special gestures to me.

Shine on , Be Well :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Matilda's Dub

Taken from the 'Beyond the Veiled Horizon' series of tracks

https://soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki/sets/beyond-the-veiled-horizon-series

Dee Zee and Mr B YouTube Channel 

https://www.youtube.com/@DeeZeeandMrB
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This track is is part of an ongoing  SoundCloud collaboration with accomplished keyboard player and Prog Rock enthusiast Dave Zeitlin.

Be sure to check out more of his music here :- @dee-zee

Dave had worked on an outline track for this with fairly ominous chords building into the actual storm section. It did sound quite stately rhythmically and in my head I could hear more of a driving pulse to reflect an oncoming storm and the storm itself.  The addition of more of an Eastern pulse utilising Darbuka and Rik in the early part and Davul in the ending added the feeling I was looking for. 

Some orchestral brass was added to the start of the storm section which gave it a bit of majesty and I also added a bit of string ensemble too.  I've often used the 'Eduardo Tarilonte', Shevannai vocal VST library in my music. The pure tones of 'Lara Ausensi' are perfect to add an element of mystery to a piece like this. 

Oud (a Middle Eastern short-neck lute) and Ney ( Persian End Blown Flute) add melodic interest and colour to the early part of this track. Use is also made of a Kanun (Qanun) a Middle Eastern stringed instrument, a type of zither.  This appears just before the storm hits. 

Dave had already supplied a solo section and I added some early electric guitar that morphed into more of a supporting riff when his solo started. It worked well that I could bring together electric and synth at the end of the storm alongside a final slightly dissonant chord on the brass. 

The overall piece is very much a weird hybrid of Eastern influences, Prog Rock and Orchestral instrumentation. I think we managed to capture some energy in this piece ... I  hope others think we did too. :-)  

Instrumentation

End Chords - Dee Zee
Lead  Synth - Dee Zee
Main String | Brass Chords - Dee Zee
Echo Chords - Dee Zee
Early Fx - Dee Zee
Piano Chords - Dee Zee
Block - Dee Zee
Timpani Pattern - Dee Zee 

Chris Hein French Horn Ensemble - MrBouzouki
Chris Hein Low Brass Ensemble - MrBouzouki
VSL Epic Horns - MrBouzouki
Chris Hein String Ensemble - MrBouzouki
Shevannai Vocal Library - MrBouzouki
Darbuka - Percussion - MrBouzouki
Rik - Percussion - MrBouzouki
Electric Guitar - MrBouzouki
Oud - MrBouzouki
Ney - End-blown Flute - MrBouzouki
Kanun - MrBouzouki
VSL Timpani - MrBouzouki
Albion Orchestra (Phasing Octadrone) - MrBouzouki

Into the Sandstorm - in collaboration with D Zeitlin

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"Hommage"

«WALKING UNDER THE MULBERRY TREES». Op.91 (2017). New edition and execution (2025).

Redemption Train

In collaboration with Francess Harris. She played the piano composition and I did the composition of the orchestral arrangement. Thank you for listening and enjoy. Any comment is appreciated always.

Collaboration Timothy McGuire / Francess Harris

Nightfall

Nightfall (feat. Fr. Harris)

the script- for the first time piano cover

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Emily Spinach

Welcome to My SoundCloud!

My name is Alexandru Ciobanu Al Rufei, and I am a Concert Pianist, Composer, Songwriter, and Ballet Piano Accompanist. As a classically trained pianist with a Bachelor in Arts/Piano Performance and over 15+ years of teaching experience, I am thrilled to share my musical journey with you.

Here’s a glimpse into my musical achievements:

	•	2002 – Concert with the George Enescu Highschool Orchestra, Auditorium Hall, Bucharest. Conductor: Bogdan Voda
	•	2001 – Third Place, International Piano Competition “PRO-PIANO-ROMANIA”
	•	1999 – First and Special Place, PRO-PIANO-ROMANIA
	•	1998 – First Place, National Music Olympiad
	•	1997 – First Place, International Piano Competition, Brasov, Romania; Recital, Marcelino Botin Foundation, Santander, Spain
	•	1996 – First Place, International Piano Competition, Agropoli, Italy; Awarded the Eugen Barbu Prize
	•	…and many more!

Since 2002, I have performed at 4 and 5-star venues such as the J.W. Marriott, Grand Hotel Continental, Casino Palace, and many others, playing a range of genres including jazz, classical, and cafe-concerto music.

Feel free to connect with me on my Facebook Page!

Thank you for visiting, and enjoy my music, our music!

Love Story

Alexandru Sorin Ciobanu Al Rufei

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