such a haunting and mournful piece...  it sounds like dying, and mourning what will be left behind....  life is beautiful.  listening to this, really moved me, makes me appreciate all that there is.

yup.  this is definitely my favourite track of yours, Philip.  it is like glass... crystal production.  so moving.  damn.  it's just too beautiful for words

So many enchanting touches - the use of xylophone (?) is lovely. The transition at 2:18 is gorgeous and the change in tempo and dynamics at 3:28 is very nice indeed. I really envy the string vibrato you achieve - so beautiful.

Is this the best piece by Classical Glass? Piano and strings in perfect conclave. Magnificent

After working on the album for several months, I decided to take a break and compose something simpler, but just as heartfelt as before. This is one of these pieces of music.

Those Who Will Not Be Forgotten

Solstice

Far From the Madding Crowd

Inspired by the poem "Acquainted with the Night" by the American poet Robert Frost. 

Acquainted with the Night

I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain—and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
One luminary clock against the sky

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. 
I have been one acquainted with the night.

Acquainted with the Night

Remains of the Day

Rozechvělá...

Thinking about my daddy and me.  Our last picture together.

Many thanks to David Dunham for mastering my track. @david-dunhamuser589535203

I Wish

hope

There are transparent walls between us, we do not hear each other ... Answer me, do not be silent!
I invite you to listen to my piano improvisation "Talk to Me".

Watch the video version on my Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/9FKpsbhfAJ0

The sheet music of some of my compositions can be downloaded from my website https://pianoimprovictor.com/ Some new works are available on  https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/victor-birkan-sheet-music/3028943?isPLP=1
Find all my music here: https://linktr.ee/victorbirkan

Talk To Me! - Improvised Piano Piece

arctic silk

Tristesse in F minor

“A painter paints pictures on canvas but musicians paint their pictures on silence.” -  Leopold Stokowski

A member of Cellar Door which you can find here: https://soundcloud.com/cdoor

"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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