Concerto pour flûte et harpe K299 - EXTRAIT 3

Antonin Dvorak - Humoresk

https://cullens.bandcamp.com/track/solveigs-song-grieg
Cello quintet arranged and performed by Deryn Cullen.
Solveig's Song is one of the movements from Grieg's Peer Gynt, Op. 23. It was the incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play of the same name.

Grieg - Solveig's Song (cello quintet)

London Academy Premiere Sinfonia, presents its Debut Concert. Held on 1st of July at the Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music with conductor Dominic Grier. The concert includes world premieres of 4 new orchestral works by Academy composers.


Khachaturian Adagio from Spartacus

Chopin: Waltz in Db ("Minute" Waltz) op.64 no.1

A new composition for cello and piano - composed and performed by Deryn Cullen
© Striking Media Music/ Cullen Media Music 2016

Feather Flight

My next piece is the theme song from the movie Requiem for a dream. Now this piece has a pretty interesting history. So let me take you through it. Yes you’ve to learn something before you get to listen to my songs :P .

Requiem is generally used in the context of a Requiem Mass, meaning a Mass (Church Mass) for the dead.

Now going back in history, around 1791, there was a brilliant composer and musician by the name Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, or Mozart :P . The count Franz von Walsegg commissioned Mozart to create a Requiem through a lot of agents, supposedly to take the work and call it as his own among his audience. Mozart was already very sick at that time. Even with his sickness, the genius composed the first movement of the song called the Requiem aeternam before he passed away! The count was willing to pay only half the money since only part of the work was completed. Hence his Widow approached other composers to help her out in finishing Mozart’s work. Joseph von Eybler, Franz Xaver Süssmayr and Maximilian Stadler and many others helped complete the song that has hence been called Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor.

Zoning back to our times, Clint Mansell, a famous Music composer decided to take Mozart’s Requiem as an inspiration and compose a Requiem named Lux Aeterna. This was orchestrated in many places like the title song for Requiem for a dream and in Lord of the Rings and so on.

The song itself is incredible powerful. This might be because of the fact that Death in itself is a very powerful entity in human minds. The original song is orchestrated. I’ve tried to capture the orchestration and the song’s mood into a piano cover. Just as usual, be my guest and let me know how I’ve done.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem for a dream

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto No23 in A

This track is from the album A. Borodin: The Two String Quartets and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/spsq

Borodin: String Quartet No. 1 in A Major: IV. Andante - Allegro

Interpretada por la Orquesta de Cámara Encuentro, del Proyecto Encuentro, perteneciente al Collegium Musicum de Bs. As.

Elegía para Orquesta de Cuerdas - P. Tchaikovsky

Written by: Ludwig van Beethoven
Performed by: Sean Myerovich

Borodin: String Quartet No. 1 in A Major: IV. Andante - Allegro

Alla Aranovskaya