At the risk of repeating myself - this is a beautiful piece, Dirk. The silences are as perfect as the notes.

Fluctuation of tempo is very comfortable...I like this.

Wunderschöne Melodien, DIrk! Der Anschlag ist mir allerdings manchmal ein wenig zu hart für ein Schlaflied ;)

Maassen - Solstice d' Ete (out on spotify, iTunes, amazon...)

... a breeze of summer with the wonderful Jens Felger ! Enjoy your holidays !

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Déjà - Vu (with Jens Felger)

My wife bought a fabulous original watercolour painting of purple poppies and she left it on the music stand of my piano. As I sat down to practice I gazed at the painting and improvised this track. It has two aspects - the present day image of poppies blowing in the wind and the associated remembrance of soldiers who died in battle.

I recorded the improvisation and practised it until I could play the left hand part without it sounding too amateurish - at the end of recording the track my left hand felt about ready to fall off!

The painting is by a wonderful artist called Anna and was bought from eBay - you can see her other works here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/fabulous.2008/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

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Legions Of Poppies [Re-recorded August 2014]

Bach: Lute Suite in G Minor. Played on a harpsichord after Philip Denis of 1674 with the buff stop on the front 8'. 

Pitch a'= 415 Hz
Tuning: Bach 1722

Bach Lute Suite G Minor: Prelude: Dominic Eckersley, Harpsichord

INORI(instrumental)

Following the death of my friend Mandy Morris in 2002, I was finding it difficult to compose, or do much else for that matter.  Towards the end of the year, I turned to one of my favorite composers – one who relished in writing music with a melancholy theme.  This was the renaissance composer John Dowland.  Using his music as inspiration, I filtered my own personal pain through his, and created a concerto of lamentations for alto flute and strings. Stylistically, I imagined the string orchestra as one giant consort of viols, and they are asked to mimic the play style and sound as closely as possible.

The first movement, inspired by Dowland’s Flow My Tears, is scored for strings only, and recalls the 5-part choral writing of that time. This movement serves as a kind of prelude.

Three Lamentations, I. Flow My Tears

An improvisation from "Leah's Farewell" by Michael Ford
http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1038482905?ls=1&app=itunes
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Missing You

Emotional instrumental piece for piano which I wrote back in 2012. It is included on my 2017 debut album "Ballerina". You can buy the track here https://oliverbohovic.bandcamp.com/track/l-enie-farewell
I hope you'll enjoy!

Ballerina

Lúčenie(Farewell) - for Piano Day 2018

Andromeda Suite

Today I was lazing by Rutland Water (in England) with my fiancée and I had this feeling of complete and utter calm, peacefulness, and contentment. And at the same time I had the inspiration for the sound of this piece - not the melody, rhythm, or chords.... just the sound.

I managed to retain that feeling and somehow combined a couple of effects plugins to recreate that sound... and here it is (together with a melody of course).

All in all the effect took about 20 minutes to get right and then the writing and recording took another 20 minutes... sometimes when the muse gives you an idea she gives it complete!

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Lazing By The Lake

Piano solo improvisation on a beautiful sunday morning in July....

Julifreuden

when I composed this piece by the end of last summer I felt like gazing into the sun through the trees feeling the warmth of the sparkling sun and in mind travelling down memory lane....

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Dirk Maassen - Solstice d'été  (pls. find me on spotify)

Happy to announce this wonderful collab with Purple Rhapsody (aka. Terry Robinson) who created a wonderful symphonic arrangement for this one. 

Terry is a great musician and you should check out his cloud

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Crossing Oceans (follow @dirk_maassen on instagram)

Everyone of us has some "unforgettables".... just close your eyes remember these and enjoy !

the beginning reminded me of an old U2 tune so the title has a second meaning also.... ;-)

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Dirk Maassen - The Unforgettable (please support and follow me on spotify)

I have known recently Dirk Maassen for his wonderful music and as a person.
Generous in any sense and deeply dedicated to his and other people work.
His piano, a bliss.
Here I have only contributed with an orchestral arrangement which was due to the inspiring song Dirk has created. A full collaboration will come soon.
Thank you Dirk 

Dirk Maassen (feat. London-DC) -To the sky (Symphonic version)

Solstice de Ete started with a valse "Stella" and now I like to close this album with another valse "Luna"... So here it is... enjoy !

The complete album will be on iTunes and amazon soon

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Dirk Maassen - Luna (www.maassen-music.com)

This is a re-recording I did exclusively for my upcoming album. This little song came to me while I was improvising one night and since the melody did not get out of my head I decided to take a short break and release this one inbetween ...

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Dirk Maassen - Lullaby for the Sleepless - Album Version (www.maassen-music.com)

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