Felipe  Pedrell (1841 –  1922) was a Spanish composer, guitarist and musicologist. Among his main direct disciples are Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Cristòfor Taltabull, Pedro Blanco, Joaquín Turina and Manuel de Falla.

Felipe Pedrell: Mazurka

"Besides being makers of music, the most compelling composers are also storytellers and “The Rainy Road” has certainly has the magic dust of an alluring narrative written all over it.

By Francesco’s own account, it sums up feelings associated with all of the traveling, leaving, loneliness, and relocation that have been constants in his life over the past ten years. [...]

Everything revolves around a recurring melody that was sketched on a piece of paper while staying in an apartment in Kraków (Poland) last year and which proved be the catalyst."

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The Rainy Road (Orchestral Version)

From the album "Ver Sacrum"
“Throughout history, this expression has been used to describe various ritual group expulsions and the deduction of colonies, particularly with regard to people getting back to nature.
For example, the Italian town of Nocera was founded in the 7th Century BC by inhabitants from Camerinum, who left their ancestral homeland during a so-called Ver Sacrum.
In ancient Rome, during times of calamities such as pandemics, earthquakes, wars, or plagues, they used to devote children born in spring – from the 1st of March to the 30th of April – to the gods Jupiter and Mars. Then, when they turned 20 or 21, these children were required to leave the community to begin new settlements”
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Sounding like some long lost, sacred canon, Ver Sacrum – the new album from Bruno Sanfilippo – marks something of a departure for the Barcelona-based pianist and composer. Far more orchestral in nature, there’s a spiritual, quasi-religious force to these pieces; strings swoop and soar, maudlin organs plough slowly, sorrowfully forward, while several sopranos add to the ecclesiastical air. But there’s hope and joy here too, and a childlike playfulness – playing these tensions against each other is what makes Ver Sacrum such an intense, rewarding listen. Inspired and informed by the ancient custom of ritualised expulsions of the same name, one can find the whole spectrum of humanity within these nine pieces: sorrow, loss, love, rebirth, change, hope, and the indefatigable human spirit. It’s what gives this music its power. Derek Robertson, journalist and music writer: Guardian, Independent, NME, VICE, Timeout, The Quietus, The Face.

Ver Sacrum

Yersinia Pestis

Spotify/AppleMusic

Beethoven 126_5

This set of SWWs was written in memory of a wonderful singer, teacher and friend, Diana Walkley. Here, significant reference is made to Elgar's Music Makers - a score of great insight, I now understand, into a lonely composer: a true 'dreamer of dreams'

SWW22.5

perfect (beautiful piano)

Written and performed by Tim Fain

All proceeds from downloads and streaming in 2016 went to support Made in a Free World, to help put an end to modern slavery.

I wrote and recorded Freedom to support Made in a Free World, an organization dedicated to putting an end to modern slavery. As a father of two young girls, I was deeply moved by its mission to make the world a safer place for all our children. Every day I’m inspired by the boundless creativity I see in my own daughters. As a musician, I’m continually amazed by the power of music to connect and heal.

It pains me to recall that we still live in a world where many young people are not allowed the basic rights of education, play, and the liberty to make their own choices in life. In composing this work, I was inspired to imagine a future in which freedom is within every child’s reach.

The music is an expression of joy, and an attempt to capture a feeling of flow and weightlessness, but also empowerment. There is a kinetic quality in the music as it unfolds, with the faster rhythms in the violin giving way to larger, broader phrases, as if “zooming” out, revealing the ways in which we are all interdependent and connected to one another.

I was also particularly satisfied in having the opportunity to collaborate with my elder daughter, who created the recording’s cover art. In this spirit of intergenerational collaboration, I hoped that in some way the song would help to empower my daughters and other young people to embrace a new way of living that will enable us all to be free in mind, body, and soul.

Freedom

"Encima de las Nubes" - Above the Clouds
Soaring above the clouds, gliding through the sky. 

Latin tune with some Jazz and rock influences.

Encima de las Nubes

live performance from Harpa Concert House - hommage concert to Glenn Gould on his 80th birthday.

J.S. Bach Partita no 6, Tempo di gavotta - Vikingur Olafsson

Anonyme - Chanconeta Tedescha Tenor (Ferrara Ensemble)

original music: @ascoltadi
piano: Carlos Márquez

image by Luis Argerich
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lrargerich/3100004767/

Reflections

Dirk Maassen: Fragile

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

Felipe Pedrell: Mazurka

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