New piano music for reflective moments
New piano music has something what designer would call "sensual clarity". It has  stimulating contrasts – emotion and intelligence, stunning proportions – balance between strength and harmony, freedom & geometry.

Moving Classics - Reflective Moments

The Hedonist

A great rendition of this awesome song. Elton at his rockiest and we play this at our gigs with as much punch as we can to get the room head banging and everyone doing air guitar! Check out our original songs too!

SATURDAY NIGHT'S ALRIGHT FOR FIGHTING

Listen here to the EP Time - https://ampl.ink/bKlmm

One Day

One Day - Debut EP available now on Spotify

Brown Eyed Girl is track Number 2 on Matt Ganim's Debut Album "Your Songs"

Matt Ganim Facebook/mattganimpianoman

Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison) - Matt Ganim

A cue composed by Josh Stewart for Hans Zimmer's 2017 MasterClass.

Plains

Another soothing, cinematic background music instrumental by relaxdaily for you to enjoy. This relaxing piano music can be your perfect soundtrack when you like calm and peaceful music while you work, study, do yoga, or meditate. It can also serve you in different applications, like spa music, massage music, inspirational music, etc. Tell me what you feel about this tune and how you use it.

>>Watch also my nature video Forest featuring this track: https://relaxdaily.net/video-forest-best-of/

Have a great week, 
Michael (relaxdaily)

...Slow down, use this relaxing background music to improve your mood, enhance your calm, or bring peace to your everyday life. Or maybe you're one of the many people who find relaxing instrumentals of benefit during your workout (yoga, etc.) or playing in the background at work or while your complete household chores. 

... forget about stress and de-stress to this music. Keep balance between work and relaxation. Live your life. Be yourself.

© 2012 relaxdaily.  All rights reserved.

Season 2

N°045

Relaxing Piano Music – work, study, meditation – relaxdaily N°045

Emmy award-winning composer Michael Price will release Tender Symmetry, his second album with Erased Tapes, on August 31st 2018. The ambitious musical project takes in a series of iconic National Trust locations across England as its inspiration, turning them into unlikely recording spaces. Michael and a host of musicians and collaborators — including soprano Grace Davidson (featured on Max Richter’s Sleep) and Shards (the choir on Nils Frahm’s All Melody) — travelled across the country in pursuit of places far removed from the traditional recording studio to create seven unique and moving pieces.

The diversity of Michael Price’s choices ranges from the ruins of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire to the Fan Bay WWII shelter, cut deep into the chalk cliffs of Dover. All owned by the National Trust save one, each venue became both the inspiration and the recording studio for Michael Price and his accompaniment of renowned musical ensembles, choirs and soloists. 

While each piece of music is named after the location in which it was created, William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience courses through them as well. Soprano Grace Davidson sings Blake’s poignant words about nature, religion and the industrial revolution on several of the pieces including the astoundingly beautiful album closer Shade Of Dreams, written after the birth of Michael’s daughter. “The final piece, Shade of Dreams, is part of a group of pieces I wrote for the birth of our daughter, Emilie. It, like all the works on the album, takes its text from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, in this case, A Cradle Song. As much as Tender Symmetry is about the past, it is firmly about the future, and all our of shared futures.”

Alongside soprano Grace Davidson and Shards choir, other performers include virtuoso cellist Peter Gregson, new music experimentalists Immix Ensemble and Manchester Collective. Tender Symmetry will be available worldwide on LP, CD and digitally, including selected National Trust shops, on August 31st 2018. Michael Price will premiere Tender Symmetry live at London’s Kings Place on September 6th.

Released by:
Erased Tapes Records Ltd.

Release date:
31 Augist 2018

P-line:
℗ 2018 Erased Tapes Records Ltd.

Tender Symmetry

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Michael Price - Shade Of Dreams

The Track i wrote for the UEFA short film 'The Truce' (same screenwriter as War Horse) to celebrate the 100th Anniversary for the First World War One truce.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYv6dHy5TJE

Debut EP here including 'Time' : open.spotify.com/album/3eseQo1SgJt7ZUWQG1R4z4

Strings recorded/mixed at Church Hill studios, London by Dan Weinberg.

Cheers,

Joe.

Time

Time - Debut Single available now on Spotify

This piano piece is an impressionistic expression of the feeling known to the  most people. Doubts...

Doubts

Éire

Buy it here

'Music Box' tells the story of a ballerina trapped in a music box who magically comes to life at night, escaping the confines of her box to dance in wondrous beauty and grace reflected through the piano composition. A perfect track for #pianoday2020

Music Box

This is my contribution to the 2019 observance of Piano Day.

Photo by solmaz hatamian on Unsplash

Reverie - Piano Solo #pianoday

Recorded in one take - 'Lost Dream' is a sublime and super chilled solo piano track from Andrew James Johnson. Recorded at Tileyeard Studios on a vintage Steinway upright piano with the full felt treatment, the sonorous sound world is perfect for delicate voicing of the composer. Andrew writes with emotion at the heart of his music, with subtle shifts in texture and tempo to keep the listener engaged and drawn into his mellifluous sound world...

Lost Dream

The first piano interlude from the musical revue The Yellow Cake Revue  "Farewell to Stromness", has become one of Davies' most popular pieces, and has been arranged for various instruments. (1980)

Farewell To Stromness  by Peter Maxwell Davies

Moving Classics TV is a popular platform for new piano music www.movingclassics.tv It is curated by a concert pianist and founder Anna Heller.

Andrew James Johnson is a classical-crossover pianist and composer performing his unique music in the neo-classical genre. His debut album 'Winter's Heart' has been featured on curated playlists on both Spotify (Peaceful Piano) and Apple Music (Piano Chill, Melancholy Piano) and has received well over 1 millions streams to date. The ‘Winter’s Heart’ album features the Chamber Ensemble of London, one of the UK’s finest string orchestras, with whom Andrew collaborated on for his centre piece work from which the album is named. 

Andrew has performed live Classic FM headquarters in Leicester Square, London, had his music videos featured on their Facebook page with over 100K views. In 2018 Andrew headlined 3 sold out concerts in London (Blüthner Piano Centre, St Pancras Old Church, Shoreditch Treehouse) as well as a performance with the St. Albans Symphony orchestra supporting artists such as Pixie Lott and 10CC at the Meraki Festival in Hertfordshire.

Andrew is devoted to education and is CEO of the London Piano Academy and was formerly head of keyboard studies at Central Foundation Boys School in London. He has lectured at junior and undergraduate level at the Royal Academy of Music and Regents International College.

Currently, Andrew is working with online tutorial company Music Gurus, heading up a team of professional pianists who perform and discuss musical works across multiple genres to a global audience of piano students in the Rock School syllabus.

Andrew’s next musical release is a 4-track solo piano EP called ‘The Music Box’  that explores the more introspective sound world of the piano, recorded using felt on the hammers of the keys for a translucent tone. ‘The Music Box’ has melody at its heart, conjuring an ethereal dream, with reflective moods and emotions that take the listener on a journey from start to finish. Beautiful memories and stories are encapsulated in this miniature musical masterpiece.

To keep up to date wit Andrew's music please sign up to his email list via his website www.andrewjamesjohnson.co.uk and you can also buy and download the sheet music for all of Andrew's music via this link: https://www.andrewjamesjohnson.co.uk/product-category/sheet-music/


In the press:

‘It's music to lift the heart and inspire all who listen’- Classic FM

‘Winter’s Heart is a masterpiece in emotionally compelling contemporary classical music, and wise listeners should keep a close eye on Johnson as he continues to create in the future.’ – Piano and Coffee Records

‘Johnson’s performance is consistently delicate but thought-provoking that keeps the listener engaged with every note… it is hard not to be swept away by every song.’ Love London Love Culture 

…’a new composer and solo pianist whose compositional style oozes a rich harmonic language that’s contained within an uncluttered template… Prizing intuition and purity.’ PRS For Music

Lost Dream

Andrew James Johnson

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