Superbly crafted and performed, a beautiful, reflective and ethereal piece!

Nothing you do is the same, and I feel elevated into the realm of a refined human being. This defines the best human existence. Music cannot be better.

A lonely piano with hands holding life in its palm...

Lovely moment. This elicits the feeling of time passing to me, of nostalgia. Appreciate your choice of images on your tracks too.

When the Sea Speaks: A Prelude

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxpKNJFDUm4
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Someone once said that symphonic orchestra is the most sophisticated musical instrument humanity ever invented. And I always felt like this is an ultimate challenge for a composer to write music for such a giant. I started my first shy attempts to compose orchestral music a few years ago. Of course, at that time it was all done using digital libraries. I did dream that one day I may experience the thrill of hearing a live orchestra performing my compositions but that was truly an ephemeral dream, no actual plans to do it. Until now.

This summer my husband and I took a composing course (focusing on film composing). As a part of that course I had a homework: to compose a piece for a string orchestra. I chose the solo piano piece I wrote earlier this year as a foundation. It took a few evenings to come up with the orchestral arrangements - again, using digital libraries... at first! But then my husband said that he feels like this piece deserves to be recorded with live orchestra. And so it happened - two months ago we hired a session orchestra from Budapest. We only had half an hour session to record 2.5 minutes of this composition. Gosh, it was such an amazing experience! When I heard 40 musicians playing the harmony I burst in tears. Then I was shocked again to learn that my composition was nominated for Hollywood Music in Media Awards.

I called this piece "Distant Memories". It was written during one of the lockdowns when I was on the edge of breaking down. I devoted it to my mom, who lives on the other side of Atlantic but she used to come here every year.. until 2020.. and then 2021.. I hope we will see each other next year. But meanwhile all we have are those "distant memories".

The original piano solo version is coming next week!

"Distant Memories" (Orchestral) by Milana Zilnik

Far From the Madding Crowd

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Instruments used: 
- nylon classical guitar (lead, main voice, second voice)
- orchestral strings (legato, pizz), cello, women choir, surdo, marimba

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Unedited piano improvisation with EQ and reverb. Moves around a theme of delicate dancing high notes over a thick repeating bass drone. Reminded me of walking through a rainforest at night, encountering spiders, frogs, snakes and other creepy-crawlies!

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In Solitude

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Composed for Piano Day 2017
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Inspired by the wonderful Rilke poem.
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"The most powerful and magical language is music. The reason for this is that music is the original language. Music is not ornamented poetry, and poetry is not ornamented prose. Poetry is fallen music, and prose is fallen poetry. Prose is not the original language; it is poetry made practical. Even poetry is not the original language; it is music made speakable, it is the words of music separated from their music. In the beginning was music." (Peter Kreeft, Philosophy of Tolkien)

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