Piano

Watermark

Alicja Maciejko
Composition 16.11.2023, played and recorded 23.11.2023
Art: Alicja Maciejko 

Message and Doubt

Close your eyes and let the ivory keys transport you to a world of dreams. "Orkhan Aliyev - You and Me In My Dreams" is a tender piano solo that paints a sonic portrait of love and longing. Gentle melodies dance amongst delicate chords, evoking a sense of intimacy and shared secrets whispered in the moonlight. Escape the ordinary and slip into a realm where imagination and reality intertwine, all painted with the soul-stirring beauty of a piano and duduk.

Flower in the Garden

Demo

You and Me In My Dreams

I created a music video for this. If you would like to see it . . . https://youtu.be/2AIT4-99U-M?si=bcJ4Sxt_-GQ_c1S_

It was 3 hours before midnight and it would become a new year. It was an ominous feeling. All year it had been building. 2024 was going to be a defining year, and maybe not in a good way. There will be changes in who we are. A year that will affect the world. I felt I needed to put my feelings into music, not where I control what I play, but to relax into it and let my fingers tell the story. When I "try" to write music it is work and it takes planning and many hours to perfect, especially if I write the piano score. When I improvise it is played in one take, never to be played again. It took my whole life to be able to play this way. It is who I am, not trying to do or sound like anyone. I hope you enjoy. Thank you for listening.

I was tired.I had spent many hours working on a go fund me for a families in the Congo - the DRC. I've known them for 8 years, and have helped them with money for medicine and food quite a few times, but this needed more help than I can do. I made a video for it as well as a written story. My music is the soundtrack for that with 20 photos. If you would like to see it and help me share it I would be indebted to you.

https://gofund.me/f2c2d76f

Artwork by Armando Macias
Death row, San Quentin
I've known him 20 years

Everything Changes At Midnight

The Chinese New Year starts 10 Feb. We welcome the year of the dragon! The dragon is powerful and the year is said to be very high or low.
🤍The battle between forces of light and dark represents our internal struggles. The continual cycle of darkness turning into light is important as Hope springs from sadness. 
🖤 In Chinese culture it is called yin-yang; a cyclical balance between female and male energy produces harmony.

The Dragon Waltz is out now, available on all streaming platforms.  恭喜发财! https://iwd.lnk.to/TheDragonWaltz

Compilation of women composers for International Women's Day..
Harmonies of WoMen..

31 Jan newlsetter: https://shoutout.wix.com/so/83OrXcO6X?languageTag=en

The Dragon Waltz

Jean Sibelius: Laulu ristilukista - Sången om korsspindeln - Das Lied von der Kreuzspinne. Op.27 No 4 (1898). Read & reproduced for piano by VV on the original score. Rec. worked out on a pair of modeled Petrof Mistral 284 grands, revoiced & reconfigured by VV, as well as the rec setup made by VV. - And the rec updated by VV Nov.10, 2024.
'Laulu Ristilukista' lyrics with one of the most legendary interpretations of this song (see the link):
"Tuol korpien kätkössä ruohikon
Ja paisteessa siel auringon
Käy lukki niin suuri ja musta kuin yö
Se saalista vaanii ja syö
Sadepäivä sen vangiksi..."
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/matti-lehtinen-laulu-ristilukista-lyrics.html 

Sången om korsspindeln:
Bak villande skog på en grönskande slätt,
där solskenet gassar så hett,
där sitter en spindel så svart och så stor
i gräset och stirrar och glor.
Ha
https://lyricstranslate.com/sv/jean-sibelius-sangen-om-korsspindeln-lyrics.html

Jean Sibelius Ristilukki. Sången om korsspindeln.

Jean Sibelius: Laulu ristilukista - Sången om korsspindeln  - Das Lied von  der Kreuzspinne

I invite you to listen to my piano improvisation "What's it for?".
Find all my music here: https://linktr.ee/victorbirkan

What's It For? - Improvised Piano Piece

Here's a little blabbering on my older digital piano which decided to have "some fun" with me. But I showed her :)))

It is a one-take recording, with a hint of Piazzolla's "Adios Nonino" theme at the end.
An amazing theme isn't it?!

Soon I hope I'll be able to record my take on it but FOR the full version

I hope you enjoy it!

Please Like and share if you do!

!We are all or almost all "starving" musicians around here :D, like Damien Rice has said in one of his concerts. So it helps a lot.😊

Nonsense on "Adios Nonino"  Theme By Astor Piazzolla - 01.06.2024, 16.13

In collaboration with Francess Harris. She played the piano composition and I did the composition of the orchestral arrangement. Thank you for listening and enjoy. Any comment is appreciated always.

Collaboration Timothy McGuire / Francess Harris

Come Take My Hand

Come Take My Hand (feat. Fr. Harris)

Track 16 of Album "Paisaje Andaluz". 
Available in Google Play, Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer.

from "Spanish Dances" by Enrique Granados
piano: Carlos Márquez

background image:
flic.kr/p/nrzH1m

Paisaje Andaluz

Danzas Españolas: 5. Andaluza

Enrique Granados: Spanish Dance No. 5

In 1943, 70 years ago, guillotines in Munich and other german cities beheaded human beings every day. Among them were the young members of "Die weiße Rose".

The composition:
"Die weiße Rose" is composed in A minor, on white keys only as a tribute. 
It is a bittersweet piece. 
The white Rose is one of the most beautiful flowers - but it always will be associated with "Die weiße Rose" and their message: "We will not be silent."
"Die weiße Rose" has thus become a symbol for the fight for freedom, worldwide, in all times.
May our music contribute.

The booklet with descriptions about the historical background and scores / sheet music can be downloaded for free here:
http://www.beneking.com/hrs

Pianist Hal Freedman (@classical-soul-pianist) from Philadelphia / USA made again a touching interpretation of this piece, performed on a Steinway. Dear Hal, thank you so much for your support on this difficult and important project!

Please do have a look at the very moving short video that Hal created with some pictures while the music is playing.  You find it on both our YouTube Channels:
http://www.youtube.com/user/steveberlin0815
http://www.youtube.com/user/hmfreedman/featured

Picture: Cover of the US edition of "The White Rose", written by Inge Scholl, the surviving sister of Hans and Sophie Scholl.

About "Die weiße Rose"
Die Weiße Rose ("The white Rose") was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy/musicology professor.
Wikipedia:
English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose
German: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weiße_Rose

Among various other actions they wrote 6 well-written leaflets ("Flugblätter"), which were printed and distributed in secret to make German population aware of the atrocities of Nazi Regime.

One of the most famous statements, which is still an important message today, is from the 4th leaflet:
"We will not be silent. 
We are your bad conscience. 
The White Rose will not leave you in peace!"
Leaflets in 
English: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/White_Rose
German: http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/nazi/widerstand/weisserose/

This piece of music goes out to the members of the White Rose, who got caught and beheaded by the guillotine in Munich. They sacrified their young lives for freedom and peace in Germany and the world.

Sophie Scholl 9.5.1921-22.2.1943
Hans Scholl 22.9.1918-22.2.1943
Christoph Probst 6.11.1918-22.2.1943
Prof. Kurt Huber  24.10.1893 - 13.7.1943 
Alexander Schmorell  16.9.1917-13.7.1943
Willi Graf  2.1.1918 - 12.10.1943

We also remember the many thousands of brave women and men in Germany and other countries, who were active in the Resistance and got beheaded, hung, shot or beaten to death. 
Our message also goes out to those, who even today raise their voice, fight and sacrifice their lives for freedom in countries like North Korea, Syria and many others.
"We will not be silent."

Memory:
The "Weiße Rose Stiftung", founded by relatives, keeps the memory.
White Rose foundation: http://www.weisse-rose-stiftung.de/
Dozens of schools in Germany are named "Geschwister-Scholl-Schule", streets in nearly every city are named after the members of the group.
Organisations worldwide remember and spread the message.


iTunes

Die weiße Rose - The white Rose - played by Hal Freedman

This is my second recording taken from Mr Stephan Beneking's rich archive of wonderful pieces.
Having been already recorded by much better pianists than me  I  tried to differentiate a little introducing some little dissonance and a closed "finale" which probably is not in Stephan's intentions. But as he already said me once  "the interpreter  is not the slave of the compeser". So I did it;  forgive me Stephan if  you should not like it :)

Stephan Beneking - Petit reve bizarre N°20

NEW ALBUM! We are "starting" with No. 8, which has only been composed recently. It is inspired by the eruption of the vulcano "Krakatau" in 1883, so 130 years ago. It was the biggest explosion of a vulcano in mankind.

Pianist Michael Hauber (https://soundcloud.com/michael-hauber) from Stuttgart / Germany played all 8 "Preludes fantaisies", so we decided to create a new album. I am sure you will enjoy it, as it contains some of my most extraordinary works...

You can download the album on BandCamp for the price of a coffee (3 Euro / 4 USD) :-)
http://beneking.bandcamp.com/album/8-preludes-fantaisies

It is also available on iTunes and Amazon MP3
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/stephan-beneking-8-preludes/id666414315
http://www.amazon.com/Stephan-Beneking-8-Preludes-Fantaisies/dp/B00DNK1PHQ/ref=sr_shvl_album_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1372489651&sr=301-2
and many other platforms like Spotify, GooglePlay etc.

You can also "Flattr" this piece. Flattr is a social microdonation system.
https://flattr.com/t/1566610
Thank you for supporting Creativity!
Thank you also for reposting or sharing on your social networks!

The score booklet for all Preludes can be downloaded for free here:
www.beneking.com/booklets

BandCamp Album 3 Euro 

100th recording! Prelude fantaisie No. 8 "Krakatau" -played by Michael Hauber- beneking.bandcamp.com

Classically trained pianist. I enjoy playing not only the traditional repertoire but also pieces from unusual composers.

Enrique Granados: Spanish Dance No. 5

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