Piano improvisation performed and recorded on a stray Steinway piano at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music.
The music will feature on a new album of piano compositions and improvisations recorded at The Glasshouse in summer 2025.
More music is available on my Bandcamp page: https://paulstephentaylor.bandcamp.com/
For aficionados of piano improvisation, maximalist soundscapes and everything in between.

Clandesteinway III

5. Tears on the Ivory Path

Nicola Benedetti - Vivaldi - Concerto for Violin and Strings in D Major - I - Allgero [Clip]

Beethoven -  Elise

Carmen: Aragonesa

so after my big looong cry last night..... I woke up ... seeing a silver lining :) ... Things will get better! 
not being in a job is not a good thing really, especially if its essential for you to be working. I guess that's what I needed to see .... for a while. 
Its usually the times that I am overwhelmed ... A song comes around :) 

so here is a new song (another improv) .... its been what? 3 months and not one song came out. so here we go! 

That Silver Lining

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor

UCLU Chamber Choir Winter Concert - 12 December, 2012

Cantata no. 140 ‘Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme’ (1731)
• Chorus ‘Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme’
• Recit ‘Er kommt, er kommt’
• Chorale ‘Zion hort dieWachter singen’
• Recit ‘So geh herein zu mir’
• Chorale ‘Gloria sei dir gesungen’

UCLU's Chamber Choir, a group of 26 experienced singers from around the university, present an evening of stunning choral music in St Olave's Church, joined and accompanied by a number of talented musicians from UCLU Symphony Orchestra.

Soloists: Jade Wong, Frederick Soames, Edward Cottell
Conductor: Charles Peebles
Organist: Luke Moynihan
Rehearsal Pianist: Ashley Harvey

http://www.uclumusicsociety.org

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UCLU Chamber Choir Winter Concert: Bach Cantata 140

One of the "bonus" tracks included in my latest "Autumn Stories" CD. 
Enjoy! 

Week #14 (Piano solo)

The piano score is available for purchase - contact the composer for information! 

About the composition:
This first Fantasie, as suggested by its title, was composed as a response to a number of sleepless nights. The thematic material is found throughout, expressed as an "idée fixe" with an evolving emotional framework. This idée fixe represents the uncontrollable obsessions of the subconscious as they cycle through a fitful, sleepless night. 

The piece moves through a vast range of emotional extremes as the initial expression of melancholy builds and evolves towards increasingly emotional declamations. The traditional Fantasy Form determines that the structure of the piece must be relatively free, so the work is given structure through the symmetry of the large sections. Furthermore, the cohesion of this piece is achieved through balanced phrasing, and the recurring presence of the original thematic material, which is represented not only in many keys, but also in differing registers, in melodic inversion and with thematic variation. The core of the work is where the composition construction is most complex: constantly juggling multiple layers of melodic ideas superimposed upon one another. As new melodic material emerges it encourages a dispute between animated passion and emotions of a more whimsical or reposed state. The coda suggest a delirious, exhausted conclusion to the seemingly endless night, with the last hints of the idée fixe overcome by hallucination and finally yielding to a fanciful flight into dreams. 


Fantasie #1 "Nuit Sans Sommeil" (Night Without Sleep) _

A brief departure from soundtracks and music libraries, a midnight-hour improv for you.

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Oliver Sadie - Improv By Night Light

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Beethoven - Elise

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