Last two movements from my Clarinet quintet.

Clarinet Quintet: III. Lento - IV. Allegro

I'm away from the piano at the moment, so I thought I'd share this with everybody...

Compositional sketch for a modern Pastoral Appassionata String Quintet.  Primary composition sometime in November 2013.  Work in progress.

Somebody asked if this is a "sad" song.  Here is my answer:

It is not a "human emotion" song.   It is more a divine/nature/universe  song.  It does not have human emotions like happy/sad.  It has only what is.  It has only pure beauty. Like a waterfall.  Or a mountain.  Or a star. A waterfall is not sad.  Or happy.  It only is. It is simply pure beauty.

Pastoral = of or referring to nature or the creator

Appassionata = with passion  (but in this case, it is not passion like between a man and woman.  it is more passion of the creator for his creation or created for his creator.)

It is more of a spiritual music.  This is what I will do more of later in life. Like these guys:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_minimalism

I aspire to follow in their footsteps one day.

Somebody asked about the plug-ins used:

Solo Bass, Cello, Viola, Violin 1, & Violin 2 from NI Kontact (standard set from Komplete) for this sketch.  Sometime later I will ideally record the real thing... (Or at least use more advanced string libraries.) 6 Instances of 2CAudio Breeze (which I am the developer of) are used here to make the Kontact Strings sound reasonably good. 

http://2caudio.com/products/breeze

The strings samples themselves are not that good.  The reverb is!  :)  That's the trick here.



Many new solo piano compositions to share with you all soon!  Happy New Year!

Andrew Souter -- Pastoral Appassionata For String Quintet (Sketch)

David Loebel conducts the NEC Symphony in a performance of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 with soloist Elina Akselrud. Recorded live in Jordan Hall November 13, 2013 by Jeremy Sarna.

Chopin: Concerto for Piano no 1 in E minor- Romance  Larghetto

David Loebel conducts the New England Conservatory Philharmonia in a performance of Mendelssohn's "Scottish" Symphony no 3 in A minor. Recorded live in Jordan Hall December 4, 2013 by Alex Hug.

Mendelssohn: Symphony no 3 in A minor- Adagio

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Broken City

New England Conservatory piano major Chuang-Chuang Fang performs Beethoven's Sonata for Piano no 23 in F minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata." Recorded live in Jordan Hall in Boston February 20, 2014.

Beethoven: Sonata for Piano no 23 in F minor, Op. 57  Allegro ma non troppo

Divertimento for Clarinet, Flute and Oboe - Malcolm Arnold (4th mvt)

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An Irish Tale - Clarinet Concerto

This is an orchestral arrangement, I started right after my first string quartet in 2000. It is Beethoven's "Rondo a capriccio" or better known as "Rage Over a Lost Penny" / "Die Wuth über den verlornen Groschen" for solo piano. I had no time to finish it in 2000. But a month ago, I rediscovered it and sat down to finish it. This is the result. I hope you enjoy it. Any comments appreciated.
This is written for (2, 2, 2, +bass, 2 - 4, 2, 3, 1, timp, str).

The original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKXZeUOKVdo

"Rage Over a Lost Penny" (1798 Beethoven / 1828 Diabelli, arr. 2000, 2012)

Cello: Nil Kocamangil
Piano: Kira Ratner

An Irish Tale - Clarinet Concerto

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