Phil Best, virtuoso pianist and composer releases new album - 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 & 𝘔𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴.

An album of 20 short piano improvisations, occasionally with sections repeated, Phil creates a completely spontaneous outpouring but with a powerful sense of rhythmic unfolding or storytelling that renders even trivial events, dramatic, momentous or pivotal. Nothing is planned or contrived but never whimsical or random. Just true! Phil uses improvised piano music to describe deep inner states - beyond the scope of language - and does so with real precision and clarity.

Forces & Moments

This is everything to me

39 Progressive Classical Guitar Solos - Book 2 - 04 Romance

last two movements of Sonata no. IV in G Major Op. 5 - George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)

live performance with Dana Maiben October 10, 2010 Synod Hall, Pittsburgh, PA

Gigue and Minuet - Handel

In January I am always caught by a strange melancholy... I don't know why, but my piano is the best friend then to make it leave! :)



Januarmelancholie

Improvisation for Piano Day 2016 by Michael Ford. #PianoDay
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Rainy Daydream

D.Castello -  Sonata seconda a Sopran solo from "Sonate concertate in Stil Moderno, Libro secondo", Venice, 1629

Katarzyna Solecka - baroque violin
Rossella Policardo - harpsichord/ organ
Giovanni Bellini - theorba

Live recording, 29.04.2016
Church Santa Maria in Valverde, Palermo

D.Castello -  Sonata seconda a Sopran solo

"When tragedy strikes our lives, time doesn’t heal wounds. Words of condolence are not enough to alleviate the painful heart, but once we start surrendering our wounded hearts to the magical beauty of music, we may just be able to find solace from within…" excerpt from SOLACE album notes.

Structured around 5 stages of grieving (Denial, Depression, Anger, Bargaining, Acceptance), SOLACE is a personal musical healing project I created to pay tribute to my father, who's life was taken away in a senseless gun violence on the south side of Chicago.  SOLACE stays close to my heart as I process and bring powerful closure to the past 25 years of silently grieving. I share SOLACE with millions of others suffering silently due to such unfortunate events. May the power of music bring us comfort and healing and enable us to seek compassion, forgiveness, appreciation and love for one another. Let's spread MUSIC and LOVE, not bullets and hatred, and make this world a better place. May God bless us all. Thank you!

Read More of SOLACE album notes on ISSUE: https://issuu.com/musicasolis/docs/solace_by_seunghee_lee_cd_booklet/1

Solace

SOLACE

Danny Boy

Hugh Wolff conducts the New England Conservatory Philharmonia in Shostakovich: Symphony no 1 in F minor. Recorded live at NEC's Jordan Hall February 9, 2012.
For more information: http://necmusic.edu/concerts

Shostakovich: Symphony no 1 in F minor, Op. 10 -  Allegretto  Allegro non troppo

Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon 1959-1965 CD023

J.S. Bach - Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major BWV 1068 - Herbert Von Karajan

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor

Gigue and Minuet - Handel

Chatham Baroque

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