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Suite for Lower Strings

Suite for lower strings

This is the Valse all my more than 100 collabs with great pianists on SoundCloud started with!
Now you can listen to a lovely interpretation by Paul de Clerck (https://soundcloud.com/paul-de-clerck) from Belgium.

Please have a look at my website www.beneking.com 
where you can find the score for this piece and many others for free download.

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Picture: Die kleine Tänzerin, Susanne Kühne, Berlin

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Valse melancolique II - played by Paul de Clerck - www.beneking.com

The great success of my "Valses melancoliques" (including the award-winning No. VIII - le desir eternel) encouraged me to continue this musical idea of melancholic valses, resulting in 12 new valses from C minor to B minor, created in a 14 day "composing rush" in April 2013 :-)

Pianist Carlos Marquéz (https://soundcloud.com/cmdigital), whom many of you know for his outstanding piano recordings, was so kind to play some of the "Swans". 
Enjoy his breathtaking performance of this piece!

Carlos played all 10 Valses melancoliques Series I, which you can find on iTunes and many other platforms. Truly can recommend this!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/beneking-10-valses-melancoliques/id600563482

All 12 "Swans" will also be published as an album towards the end of 2013, performed by pianist Danaë Vlasse (https://soundcloud.com/danae-vlasse).
Here is a "Preview" of the first 6 valses: 
https://soundcloud.com/stephan-beneking/preview-valses-melancoliques

The scores for this series you can find here: http://www.beneking.com/swans
The direct link to the booklet with all scores:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4v1JwJiY6oJVURybWNwbURSLUU/edit?usp=sharing


Valses melancoliques I

Valses Melancoliques II - "The Swans" - No. 3 played by Carlos Márquez www.beneking.com

Franz Schubert: Sehnsucht

A metaphysical journey in the snowy garden of ancient gods

Coco

NEW CENTURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PERFORMS MY ARRANGEMENT OF "TODO SENTIMENTO" BY CRISTOVÃO BASTOS & CHICO BUARQUE AT SYMPHONY SPACE, NEW YORK CITY, 2011.  

Todo Sentimento - Cristovão Bastos & Chico Buarque - arr. Clarice Assad

Clarice Assad's Arrangement of NIMROD (Elgar) for the New Century Chamber Orchestra.  

NIMROD (ELGAR) From Enigma Variations

"In her typically imaginative style, Assad has taken a dozen or so of Bach’s greatest hit tunes, from the opening of the Toccata in D Minor to “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,” and whirled them through a music processor. Some melodies are truncated and cut up, while others are spiced with dissonance in the manner of Peter Warlock’s Capriol Suite, and some are placed in playful counterpoint against each other. Much passing around of parts among the individual players allows me to point to violist Elisabeth Prior and cellist Robin Bonnell in the back rows as outstandingly strong, lyrical performers. The violins got an occasional descant accompaniment, notably a pizzicato rendering from the Well-Tempered Clavier. At one point, the cellos are running a theme from one of the unaccompanied cello suites, the violas play the “Air on the G String” over it as a counterpoint line, and the violins chip in with a fragment from a Brandenburg Concerto. Listeners who love their Bach but refuse to take him too seriously would enjoy this." 

San Francisco Classical Voice

Suite For Lower Strings Mov. 1

"In her typically imaginative style, Assad has taken a dozen or so of Bach’s greatest hit tunes, from the opening of the Toccata in D Minor to “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,” and whirled them through a music processor. Some melodies are truncated and cut up, while others are spiced with dissonance in the manner of Peter Warlock’s Capriol Suite, and some are placed in playful counterpoint against each other. Much passing around of parts among the individual players allows me to point to violist Elisabeth Prior and cellist Robin Bonnell in the back rows as outstandingly strong, lyrical performers. The violins got an occasional descant accompaniment, notably a pizzicato rendering from the Well-Tempered Clavier. At one point, the cellos are running a theme from one of the unaccompanied cello suites, the violas play the “Air on the G String” over it as a counterpoint line, and the violins chip in with a fragment from a Brandenburg Concerto. Listeners who love their Bach but refuse to take him too seriously would enjoy this."

SF Classical Voice

Suite For Lower Strings Mov. 2

Suite For Lower Strings Mov. 4

"It was thus amusing to note that Assad used her suite also to turn the tables on Bach, devising a mash-up of all the tracks from some imagined My Favorite Bach recording refracted through a series of movements, each of which takes a different approach to instrumentation. The resulting effect was probably closer in spirit to PDQ than to Johann Sebastian, but all the gags emerged through some highly imaginative writing for individual instruments that are too often dismissed as accompaniment support."

Examiner.com

Suite For Lower Strings Mov. 5

Suite For Lower Strings Mov. 3

folksong arranged by Len Williams
"just for fun"- recording during a rehearsal
guitars: F.Hiemenz & O.Kälberer
'88
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more of these folksong arrangements:
http://soundcloud.com/fhgitarre/boleras-sevillanas-fh-ok
http://soundcloud.com/fhgitarre/tutu-maramba

"Cubana" (played by F.Hiemenz & O.Kaelberer)

2.movement from "Les Elfes" (Suite for guitar) by Nikita Koshkin
guitar : Frank Hiemenz
(painting : John Bauer, edited by FHgitarre)
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All movements from "Les Elfes" (The Elves) :
1. "Allegretto grazioso" http://soundcloud.com/fhgitarre/1-allegretto-grazioso-suite-les-elfes-by-nikita-koshkin
2. "Tempo di valse" (you're just listening)
3. "Marciale energico"  http://soundcloud.com/fhgitarre/marciale-energico-suite-les-elfes-by-nikita-koshkin
4. "Andante"  http://soundcloud.com/fhgitarre/andante-suite-les-elfes-by-nikita-koshkin
5. "Vivo"  http://soundcloud.com/fhgitarre/vivo-suite-les-elfes-by-nikita-koshkin
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more music by Nikita Koshkin :
http://soundcloud.com/fhgitarre/sets/koshkin-toys/
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recorded in puzzlepie studio Munich/Türkenfeld 
('90)
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restored from a CompactCassette Copy with WaveLab 7 (2013)

2.Tempo di valse (Suite "Les Elfes") by Nikita Koshkin

“… a serious triple threat… a veritable musical dynamo.” – San Francisco Chronicle

A bold composer, a brilliant pianist and an inventive vocalist all rolled into one, Clarice Assad floats freely across musical idioms, drawing on an array of sounds from Amazon forest wildlife to operatic arias. A classically-trained pianist, Assad is deeply rooted in the earthy, folkloric rhythms of Brazil, capturing the attention of international audiences with her stunning talent. The term “world music” is redundant when applied to her style, a reflection of Brazil’s musical melting pot heritage of African rhythms mixed with European melodies and harmonies. 