Brian Crain

Brian Crain - Canon In D (piano & Violin )

Brian Crain - Canon In D

Brian Crain Moonlit Shore

A brilliant rework of a very famous song.


Brian Crain - Hallelujah

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

Brian Crain - Lavender Hills

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This is the first track of my new album "Eleven", released on February 11, 2016. 

It's inspired by an Andrea Moro's song, titled "Ho creduto di poterti trattenere", you can listen to the original version here: https://soundcloud.com/andreamoro/ho-creduto-di-poterti-trattenere

I hope you like this piano version, it's available on: 
Bandcamp: https://gianmarcolaserra.bandcamp.com/track/prelude

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/it/album/prelude/id1072670906?i=1072670910&l=en

AmazonMP3:
http://www.amazon.it/dp/B01APTIK7U/ref=dm_ws_tlw_trk1

PlayStore:
https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Gian_Marco_La_Serra_Eleven?id=Bsqygv4up3anf3kx2sdoicu6muu

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/7BEmKsfWluXpABuTHuobNx

Deezer:
http://www.deezer.com/track/117726144?utm_source=deezer&utm_content=track-117726144&utm_term=641814581_1457440062&utm_medium=web

Buy on Bandcamp

Prelude - Eleven

Some of the songs are featuring Cello & Piano others just fir the new age piano category. I'll keep updating as I go along. This entire set is by Brian Crain except the last two. Those are by Phillip Wesley

Go here to listen to even more of his songs and albums and I can get the song for you. Most of them I already got though.

http://www.briancrain.com/newpages/PCDuet1.html


Brian Crain - Song For Sienna

Brian Crain - Wind

Brian Crain - Rain

River flows in You - Original by Yiruma - RLP Version (Mashup)

From the award winning release, The Piano, Nocturne in A Minor is an original composition by Steinway artist, Chad Lawson.

Nocturne in A Minor

Music by Fabrizio Paterlini

Fabrizio plays the piano

Violins: Eugenio Gargiola
Viola: Jessica Orlandi
Cello: Silvia Dal Paos

Drums: Luca Modena



Not from the past not for the future

Yiruma - The Sunbeams They Scatter Remix

I've created this page just to show my support and spread the word about this very talented and creative pianist. 

Brian was born in Hollywood, California. He has been composing music as long as he can remember. Family members tell him that when he was very young he began whistling nearly all the time. When someone would ask what he was whistling, Brian would usually answer something like, "I don't know. I just made it up."

He was only six years old when his parents bought a baby grand piano, thinking that Brian's musical talents could use a more polished medium. But Brian continued to whistle his songs. He was not drawn to the keyboard.

When he was ten years old, Brian began taking piano lessons, but he soon became bored with the lessons. Besides, the piano took time away from his new passion, baseball. So he gave up the piano. His need to compose, however, would not be stopped. His friends would often hear him whistling his newest compositions during practice or games on the baseball diamond. At this young age, Brian was dreaming of becoming a professional baseball player while whistling his own songs.

When Brian was fifteen years old he began editing award-winning educational films. While he was still a teenager, he began doing sound on Hollywood films. At nineteen years of age, he built his own sound studio to complete the first feature-length film in Hollywood to be finished in R-DAT digital audio. Some of his technical innovations in post-production sound became standard Hollywood practice.

During this time Brian would occasionally sit down at that nearly forgotten piano. He would improvise at the keyboard, just as he had always improvised with his whistling, playing with the notes until something started sounding just right. He was, without realizing it, teaching himself to play the piano.

Also without intending to do it, Brian was training himself to compose at the piano. By his early twenties, he was composing songs for award-winning children's films. He was also still nurturing his dream of playing professional baseball, but after unsuccessful tryouts with professional teams, he sadly let that dream slip away.
It was during this time that his family suggested he record his personal piano works and release them on CD. He had never seriously considered recording for CD release, but when he recorded the first album, it was so well received that he now spends all his time composing and recording his own works. He continues to be encouraged by loyal fans who frequently tell him that his music has changed their lives. Now he jokes that the best thing that ever happened to him was not becoming a professional baseball player.

Brian's compositions Butterfly Waltz, Northern Lights, A Walk in the Forest and Lavender Hills are used as theme music and background music for television dramas and commercials in Asia. The use of Brian's music in this fashion has made him very popular in all of Asia.

In 2005 Brian composed his first two symphonies, entitled Spring Symphonies, which were recorded with the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. Brian debuted these symphonies with the Dakota Symphony Orchestra on Oct 8th 2005. He also performs regular piano concerts in Asia and the U.S. and is currently working on his eleventh album.

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