Impressionistic Piano

Some beautiful, quasi-impressionistic works for solo piano.

Thanks to a promo that my printing company is running, I'm able to sell these couple of pieces for the printing cost (About $7.50), and have them shipped to most countries *free* for a very limited time, which is very cool... So I wanted to use this as an opportunity to try and get some of these pieces onto pianos around the country and abroad!
If you're interested in getting your hands on some new, beautifully printed, and beautiful sounding works for solo piano, please take a moment to check these two out as I don't think you will be disappointed! smile emoticon

The Mountain Stairs - $7.50 *Including Shipping*
http://chrishealey.tictail.com/product/the-mountain-stairs-for-solo-piano

Six Piano Miniatures - $7.50 *Including Shipping*
http://chrishealey.tictail.com/product/six-piano-miniatures-solo-piano

Works for Solo Piano (Six Miniatures / Mountain Stairs)

Sample Recordings

Harmonic Waves

Composed by Christopher Healey

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Piano: Corey Sinclair
Soprano: Marielle Allan

Original Text:
When death comes and whispers to me,
"Thy days are ended,"
let me say to him, "I have lived in love
and not in mere time."
He will ask, "Will thy songs remain?"
I shall say, "I know not, but this I know
that often when I sang I found my eternity."

From Tagore Rabindranath's 'Fireflies'

Text as set:
"Thy days are ended,"
"Will thy songs remain?"
let me say "I have lived in love."

St Tagore's Cathedral - Thy Days

An piano tune I wrote reminiscent of the impressionistic style.

Wanting

This is a live performance from the 3MBS Performer of the Year Awards at the Australian National Academy of Music.

Gypsy Trio is a fiery piece that uses Gypsy scales and syncopated rhythms. It is filled with rhapsodic virtuoso passages which help to build the work to a climactic end. 

Gypsy Trio

Miniature 6

Miniature 4

Miniature 3

Miniature 1

Miniature 5

Miniature 2

Birches

Birches was written several years ago and was one of the very first works I wrote after starting my Bachelor of Music degree. The work is very much inspired by the poem by Robert Frost of the same name. The first few lines begin as follows:
  
When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.  

If you haven’t read the poem before, I recommend it. The imagery and the themes of youth, spirituality, natural world and the human imagination, make it beautiful in Frosts unique, controlled and metaphorical style of writing.  In particular, the crystalline imagery of vast snowfields and bent Birches really spoke to me musically. The opening lines capture this, as well as a sense of fragility that I find runs through Frost’s poem.  A few other lines worth mentioning here are:

 I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.

The work’s structure reflects this journey, moving from the snowy ground, up, up, towards the heavens, only to fall back to earth.

Performed by Brijette Tubb

Birches for Solo Flute

Impressionistic solo piano by Conrad Askland (ASCAP). This track was created as a background to still pictures of farmland photography of the US Pacific Northwest. 

Skagit Impressions One - Solo Piano

Young and Wandering is about a journey that doesn't travel from start to end. It is an aimless wander, enjoying the beauty in resonant sounds. The piece celebrates the timbral differences and similarities amongst the jazz quartet, in ways not often explored with these instruments. 

Alto saxophone - Holly Moore 
Piano - Selene Messinis 
Double bass - Isaac Gunnoo 
Drum kit - Maddison Carter

Young and wandering

The wonderful Flinders Quartet premiered this piece along with my other work "Exhale" in concert in Melbourne, December 2017. Originally written for the Goldner String Quartet, "The Rose that Wept" pays homage to the dark, Hans-Chrisitian-Andersen type films of my childhood.

"The Rose That Wept" - Live By The Flinders Quartet

Rising Tide is a section from my 1 hour suite for Sirens Big Band, entitled [A]part. It expresses my feelings on climate change; its sheer enormity and devastation, my fear that it is unstoppable, and heartache for our beautiful planet. This is a live recording by the ABC, from the 2017 Freedman Jazz Fellowships, in which I was a finalist. Performed by Sirens Big Band, mixed by Matthew Stuart.
The album recording of the full [A]part suite, which Rising Tide is only a small part of, is available here - https://ellenkirkwood.bandcamp.com/releases

Rising Tide

3 miniatures for piano solo (≈ middle grade) with an impressionistic touch. Recording in the white hall at Royal Conservatoire Antwerp (De Singel). Thanks to Babette Craens for her wonderful touch.

A Cloud Evolution - 3 miniatures for piano solo (2017)

From the Colours of Creation 2012 Concert. Performed by John Addison (cello) and Adam McMillan (Piano). This was a live performance and they didn't have very long to learn the piece it so forgive them the occasionally rough edges. They did a wonderful job and I'm very very thankful to them both!

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Cello and Piano Sonatina

A beautiful, flowing solo piano track with a classical style closest to the French movement of impressionism mixed with a modern cinematic sound. This music brings a constant stream of rich arpeggios moving through a varied set of harmonies.

This music is ideal as a background for film,tvt, video games, trailers, and web videos looking to heighten the sense of emotion and inject an elegant sentimentality to the visuals.

Five versions included:
Impressionistic Clouds: 2:56
Impressionistic Clouds 90 second edit: 1:34
Impressionistic Clouds 60 second edit: 1:04
Impressionistic Clouds 30 second edit: 0:35
Impressionistic Clouds 15 second edit: 0:17

166 BPM

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Impressionistic Clouds

Premiere performance by DR VokalEnsemblet for Pulsar Festival 2019. 

In emptiness we speak
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Speak

Soprano: Amber Evan's
Piano: Adam McMillan


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Text:
Let me not grope in vain in the dark
but keep my mind still in the faith
that the day will break
and truth will appear
in its simplicity. 
(From Fireflies by Tagore Rabindranath)

Miniature 1

Chris Healey - Composer