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full of feeling and beautifully played again

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Composed, performed & produced by Deryn Cullen

Strange Lullabies

A musical piece I made mixing together the typical score from a movie with some eastern instruments. I also used a Philip Glass chord progression :)

Philip Glass

"Gelido in ogni vena"
Giovanni Battista Ferrandini, "Siroe"
Libretto: Pietro Metastasio

Countertenor + piano accompagniment: Philippe Jaroussky
Live on France Inter Nov 2023
Cosroes' aria (Act III, scene V)

Gelido in ogni vena
Scorrer mi sento il sangue,
L'ombra del figlio esangue
M'ingombra di terror.

E per maggior mia pena
Vedo che fui crudele
A un'anima innocente,
Al core del mio cor.

**
I feel my blood congealing run 
Thro' ev'ry vein, in ev'ry part, 
And the pale ghost of my dear son,
Strikes dread and terror to my heart. 

And still to add to greater woe,
The loyal innocent I've slain,
Of cruelty at length I know,
I, on myself, have fix'd the stain. 

Gelido in ogni vena" is an aria from a libretto by Pietro Metastasio*. It appears in two distinct operas: "Siroe" and "Farnace". (Farnace: 1927, "Gelido in ogni vena" was set to music by almost every composer in Baroque and beyond. The approaches are very different and interesting to hear. They range from Vinci's approach which is more pleasing than it is gripping to Vivaldi's soul-crushing benchmark of what a baroque aria can be.

The fellow Venetian Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (*1710) has a yet different approach. It's not quite clear when his version was composed, only that it happened before 1758. The dread that befalls Cosroe when he imagines seeing his deceased son whom he (justly) feels he has wronged that makes his blood run cold with fear and guilt, Ferrandini illustrates with fragile diminished jumps and subtle harmonic shifts and chromatics as Cosroe's world is coming apart at the seams, shifting and shaking while he tries to somehow smoothen the cracks and live on. More personal and intimate than Vivaldi's, Ferrandini's interpretation is sublime by its own merit.

*) (this seems more likely even though some sources credit Antonio Maria Lucchini, but it seems that his version didn't contain "Gelido ...")

The full radio podcast is still available here: 
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/le-grand-atelier/le-grand-atelier-du-dimanche-05-novembre-2023-5102248

Translation Source: Siroe, re di Persia. Drama per musica, etc.
1736, British library
https://www.google.de/books/edition/Siroe_re_di_Persia_Drama_per_musica_etc/NnkCXEdNB4wC?hl=de&gbpv=0

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Philippe Jaroussky sings "Gelido in ogni vena" from Giovanni Battista Ferrandini's "Siroe"

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Hugh Wolff leads the New England Conservatory Philharmonia and Concert Choir and the Tufts Chamber Singers in a performance of Beethoven's Symphony no 9 in D minor "Ode to Joy." Recorded live in Jordan Hall, Boston February 12, 2014

Beethoven Ninth Symphony: iii. Adagio molto e cantabile

Ballet after hours. Lo-fi beats glide under minimalist piano motifs and graceful, dance-inspired rhythms—adagio to allegro, plié to arabesque. Neon-sunset ambience and warm tape texture set a calm, focused mood for stretching, journaling, or late-night choreography notes. Classical elegance, modern groove—Drift Notion’s lo-fi ballet variations.

A Lost Land

Sentiments (Soundtrack) Musique : de Garcia Del Estad Juan (Eau Rouge) 
Composé avec : Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition , Native Instruments & Nexus 4 Hollywood 1/2/3/4 
Je remercie du fond du coeur tous ceux qui me soutiennent vous êtes les piliers de mes créations.
 Merci Eau Rouge
I sincerely thank all those who support me; you are the pillars of my creations.
Thank you, Eau Rouge.


Sentiments

Ave Maria by Bach, arranged for cello and guitar.

Cello - Lauren Taylor
Guitar - Joel Senior

A rough recording from a rehearsal in preparation for a gig.

Ave Maria - Bach (Guitar and Cello)

"When tragedy strikes our lives, time doesn’t heal wounds. Words of condolence are not enough to alleviate the painful heart, but once we start surrendering our wounded hearts to the magical beauty of music, we may just be able to find solace from within…" excerpt from SOLACE album notes.

Structured around 5 stages of grieving (Denial, Depression, Anger, Bargaining, Acceptance), SOLACE is a personal musical healing project I created to pay tribute to my father, who's life was taken away in a senseless gun violence on the south side of Chicago.  SOLACE stays close to my heart as I process and bring powerful closure to the past 25 years of silently grieving. I share SOLACE with millions of others suffering silently due to such unfortunate events. May the power of music bring us comfort and healing and enable us to seek compassion, forgiveness, appreciation and love for one another. Let's spread MUSIC and LOVE, not bullets and hatred, and make this world a better place. May God bless us all. Thank you!

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Solace 

SOLACE

Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria

New England Conservatory students Zenas Hsu, Yina Tong, Livan perform Tchaikovsky's Trio for Piano and Strings in A minor, Op. 50. Recroded live in Jordan Hall, Boston, February 14, 2013

Tchaikovsky: Trio for Piano and Strings in A minor - Variazione VII  Allegro moderato

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