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David Loebel conducts the New England Conservatory Symphony in a performance of Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances. Recorded live in Jordan Hall November 13, 2013 by Jeremy Sarna

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances-Andante con moto  Tempo di valse

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-Allegro maestoso

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

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

I wrote this piece in memory of a dear life-long friend who passed away in April 2020 after a long battle with ALS. The title is from Walt Whitman's poem of the same name which he wrote after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. It is for a large string orchestra. Score/parts are available for sale/hire through music publisher Universal Edition at https://www.universaledition.com/en/Works/When-Lilacs-Last-in-the-Dooryard-Bloom-d/P0334603

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

18. Oboe sonata in C minor - Allegro assai

Grand Duo Concertant Op. 48 II. Andante con moto

An Irish Tale - Clarinet Concerto

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - String Quartet No. 17 in Bb Major, K. 458 'The Hunt' - Allegro vivace assai

Soyoung Yoon's debut album, released in 2012, contains recordings of two of most famous works for violin. The violin concerto in d minor, Op 47 of Jean Sibelius and well as Piotr Tchaikovsky's violin concerto in D major, Op 35. 
Th CD-album has been nominated to the International Classical Music Award (ICMA) 2013.

04 Tchaikovsky_ Violin Concerto In D, Op.35 - 1. Allegro Moderato.mp3

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Oboe Quartet in F major, K. 370 I. Allegro

This track can still be downloaded here:
https://deryncullen.bandcamp.com/track/andante-from-symphony-no-5-tchaikovsky

An Irish Tale - Clarinet Concerto

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