"We Wish You A Merry Christmas" arranged by Daniel Patrick Cohen. Performed in Cluj-Napoca on 17th December 2013 by my favourite people:

Nicolae Făgărășan and Liliana Făgărășan - Violins
Alexandra Făgărășan - Piano

We Wish You A Merry Christmas arr. Daniel Patrick Cohen

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Reciprocity is a 28’ chamber work for voice, taped narration, eight celli, piano, and percussion. This exciting piece was developed by the composer Daniel Patrick Cohen from six poems by Darya Farha, a Canadian poet, therapist, filmmaker and clothing designer who died of breast cancer in 2011; she was 46.

Darya was an extraordinary woman whose sharp intelligence, dry wit, distaste for orthodoxies and boundless empathy fuelled a restless journey through her unfinished life. Reciprocity was commissioned by her sister, Juliana Farha, who lives in London.

Reciprocity is not about cancer, and this piece is not a personal tribute. Instead, the work’s human and universal themes of joy, pleasure, fear and anger, alongside its intriguing instrumentation, are sure to engage a broad audience. And the Reciprocity premiere featured the terrific young jazz singer Alice Zawadzki, nominee for UK Vocalist of the Year at the Jazz FM Awards 2015.

The poem ‘The Birds of Mexico’ is the centrepiece of Reciprocity, and it closes with an arrangement of ‘Spirit of God’ (used with permission) which was written in 1965 by Sister Miriam Therese Winter for the Medical Mission Sisters, and was a favourite hymn from Darya and her sisters’ schooldays. Other poems include ‘What Can’t Be Helped’ and ‘We Were Always Modern’.

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Reciprocity Trailer

Written in 2010, shortly after leaving the Royal Academy of Music, Fata Morgana is inspired by the optical phenomenon of the same name. It was written originally for Rafał Łuc and Jess Hayes, and was finished off on an intercity train from London to somewhere prettier.

This recording is a combination of different performances and sessions in which the piece was performed by Rafał Łuc, Jess Hayes and Ian Anderson. Rafał and Ian now play as Duo van Vliet.

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Fata Morgana

Organ - Teodora Cîrciumaru

Live performance in Macon, Georgia on 14th April 2016.

Written for Teodora Cîrciumaru, with fond memories of
her trip to London in 2013 and in recognition of her warm
hospitality during my trips to Sibiu.

It is dedicated to her godson Quentin Cohen-Făgărășan,
who politely popped out the morning after this was
finished.

With hope that it inspires the trips and adventures of both.

A complete performance of the work lasts 4'20". 

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The Trips (Live)

Composer specialising in film music. Check out my debut album here: http://www.danielcohenmusic.co.uk/thepassenger

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