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Variation 18 of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini composed in 1934. Rachmaninoff said of this piece: "This one, is for my agent." as he sensed it would become a commercial hit. It's composed by playing upside down the original melody from Paganini. The original is like a piano concerto (solo piano vs orchestra) and I'm trying to do it on a single keyboard with sampled sounds.

The theme was used in the movie Somewhere in Time in 1980 starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour.

The instrument is a Clavia Nord Stage 2 using a sampled Bösendorfer grand piano and sampled orchestra strings.

Transcription for solo piano by Hermene W. Eichhorn. Re-uploaded with new take on Jan 26, 2014.

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgj3lVcaGT4

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Somewhere In Time: Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini, Variation 18

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Chopin Nocturne Opus 9 No 1

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Chopin - Nocturne Opus 9 No1 (Glenn Morrison playing on a Steinway D Grand)

Soundtrack of the 1993 film The Piano, composed by Michael Nyman.

Live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?ny8-EtKWiKE

This theme is reprised several times, called The Heart Asks Pleasure First/The Promise/The Sacrifice. It is based on a traditional Scottish tune titled "Gloomy Winter's Noo Awa".

The instrument is a Clavia Nord Stage 2, using a sampled Yamaha C7 grand piano, and one single note of sampled strings.

Note: replaced with a better take on June 3, 2014

Michael Nyman - Theme from The Piano

F. Chopin - Prelude e-moll, op.28 №4 / Ф.Шопен - Прелюдия e-moll, op.28 №4  (by Kridlatec)

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Park bench (rework)

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Park Bench (rework)

Prelude Op. 28, No. 4, in E minor – "Suffocation" – by Frédéric Chopin.

“And then the 'note bleue' resonates and there we are, in the azure of the transparent night.” – George Sand

Live video: https://youtu.be/aL-l_JjLES0

Piano: Klavins Una Corda with light felt
Synth: Waldorf Blofeld
Controllers: Dexibell VIVO S9 + Expressive E Touché
Additional effects: Elektron Analog Heat +FX

Chopin: Prelude 4

Live video: https://youtu.be/Y2QzFZ8fedw

Instruments:
Klavins Una Corda acoustic piano + Lewitt 040 mics + Extinct Audio BM9 mic
Dexibell S9 sampled electric piano + Strymon NightSky reverberator
Waldorf Blofeld synth + Elektron Analog Heat saturator
Behringer Solina String-Ensemble synth + Strymon Volante echo machine
KORG ARP 2600 M synth

Vangelis ~ Prelude ~ electro-acoustic cover

Nocturne No.1, Op.9 in B flat minor, composed by Chopin in 1830.

Live video: http://youtu.be/nbM0I_jC3b8

This piece is one of my favorite solo ever, even better than electric guitar solos. I skipped the middle section (that is more ambient) in this take. Probably more takes to come...

The instrument is a Clavia Nord Stage 2 using a sampled Bösendorfer mellow upright piano.

Photo by Kay Arne Jensen https://www.facebook.com/kayjensenphotography

Chopin - Nocturne No.1, Op.9 in B flat minor

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The great Polish composer Frédéric Chopin wrote this marvelous work when he was about twenty. It is widely regarded as Chopin's most famous piece, and is regularly featured in films, television programs and video games, e. g.  

- Bones (TV series) (2009)
- 127 Hours (2010)
- The Raven (2012)
- Mad Men (2013)
- The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
- BioShock Infinite (2013)
- Hetalia Axis Powers (2007)
- Muse's "Collateral Damage" is the same as Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 in Eb, with slight modifications, a handful of changed notes, an added string section, children's laughter and jet fighters. (from Wikipedia)

Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2

Chopin - Nocturne op.9 No.2 (255 Million+ Views YouTube Legend)

Attempt to electronic dance music on the chords of Chopin (prelude no.4 in E minor). The style is influenced by Jean-Michel Jarre.

Live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Q7bJXUrCo

The instruments are a Nord Stage 2, using slightly modified Arpamed preset arpeggiators, synced to an Elektron Rytm using a slightly modified Mysko preset.

f r y d e r y k [Nord Stage 2 + Elektron Rytm]

Chopin's Nocturne No. 2, Op. 9 in E flat, composed in 1830.

Live video: https://youtu.be/7g1UBFbBCkU

The instruments are a Kawai VPC1 controlling a Nord Stage 2 using a sampled Yamaha C7 grand piano.

Replaced with a new take on Oct 04, 2015.

Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/kayjensenphotography/

Replaced with a better take on Sept 25, 2015.

Nocturne No. 2, Op. 9 In E Flat

4. Ф. Шопен Ноктюрн Ми Бемоль Мажор Ор.9 №2

7. Ф. Шопен Этюд №7 Op. 25 (до Диез Минор)

A short piece I did for a group that requested music that sounds like Vivaldi, 

hope this is somewhat like Vivaldi

Done only with Berlin Strings 

Sounds like Signor Vivaldi? - Berlin strings

Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041

Thomas Gould, violin
Senesino Players

Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor: 1.

Samuel Barber's Adagio For Strings. This is from 1936, earlier than the 60's but so much more modern, isn't it? The ultimate ambient trance-ish piece... Tried to make it sound like metallic yet organic strings, mixing Clavia's string orchestra samples with synthesizers.

Live video: http://youtu.be/NdXiKehJCrI

If this is too ambient for you (sometimes it is for me), Tiësto used the first notes ad nauseam in an upbeat trance track.

Barber - Adagio For Strings

1ère Gymnopédie.

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZd4BYOzXBo

Lent et douloureux.
Slow and sorrowful.

"Oblique et coupant l'ombre un torrent éclatant; Ruisselait en flots d'or sur la dalle polie; Où les atomes d'ambre au feu se miroitant; Mêlaient leur sarabande à la gymnopédie."

"Slanting and shadow-cutting a flickering eddy
Trickled in gusts of gold to the shiny flagstone
Where the atoms of amber in the fire mirroring themselves
Mingled their sarabande to the gymnopaedia"

- Contamine de Latour

The instrument is a Clavia Nord Stage 2 using a sampled Yamaha C7 with a generous amount of reverb and phaser, and a thin layer of strings.

Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No. 1 [phaser]

Hope everyones enjoying the sun! 
Mad love!
Peace

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To The Sun

Trying to replicate Vangelis' Memories Of Green from the Blade Runner soundtrack.

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqn6AuCiA_s

Vangelis composed (improvised?) Memories Of Green in 1980 for his album See You Later, but it's not as famous as the Blade Runner soundtrack in which the track was included too.

The instrument is a Nord Stage 2, using a sampled Bösendorfer piano with a flanger effect, some synthesizers controlled with an expression pedal, and a generous amount of reverb.

Vangelis - Memories Of Green (Blade Runner)

Piano Concerto No. 23 K. 488, 2nd movement: Andante/Adagio in F-sharp minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1786).

The instrument is a Clavia Nord Piano 3 using a sampled extra soft Bösendorfer 130 upright piano, with effects, and a sampled Willow flute.

Live video: https://youtu.be/eL8_ZJcO27M

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Adagio from Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 [solo fragments]

This is Piano in an Empty Room from Vangelis' Blade Runner Trilogy 25th Anniversary album released in 2007.

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok0ZMA7_88M

Photo (cropped) by Kay Arne Jensen - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=653845857961186

Vangelis plays it on an acoustic piano with beautiful ambient room noise. I tried to replicate the feeling by boosting the pedal noise on my synth, and I added some pads that get pretty dark and intense towards the end.

The instrument is a Nord Stage 2, using a sampled Steinway grand piano and virtual analog synthesizers controlled with an expression pedal, and a generous amount of reverb.

Vangelis - Piano in an Empty Room (Blade Runner)

Live video: https://youtu.be/TLDZ02-1LYw

J.S. Bach composed this prelude for harpsichord in 1722 in the first book of The Well Tempered Clavier. In the Baroque period, the piano – meaning "soft" in Italian – didn't exist yet; in other words, each keyboard note sounded as loud as each other. This is a beautiful arrangement for piano transcribed in 1912 by Siloti, a pupil of Tchaikowsky.

The instrument is a Clavia Nord Piano 3 using a sampled Blüthner Model 1 grand piano, with reverb and delay, and an Oberheim OB-6 synth.

Bach/Siloti - Prelude in B minor

The Woman theme, aka Sherlocked, from the BBC Sherlock TV series, composed by David Arnold and Michael Price in 2012.

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJWZ5bI0Ksk

The original features a lot of violin and beautiful sounds, I'm trying to do a rawer keyboard version of it.

Sheet music: http://www.michaelpricemusic.com/products-page/scores-shop/woman-theme-from-sherlock-violin-piano-sheet-music/

The instrument is a Nord Stage 2 using a sampled intimidating Yamaha S4 grand piano, some virtual analog synthesizer, echo and a very generous amount of reverb.

Sherlock BBC TV series - SHERlocked (The Woman Theme)

Live video: https://youtu.be/_Yyzo9RDf7o

“The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.” – Chopin

The instrument is a Nord Piano 3, using a sampled extra soft Bösendorfer 130 upright piano with effects and angelic synthesizer voices.

Chopin - Suffocation (Prelude No. 4 in E minor, Op. 28)

Frédéric Chopin - Prelude in E minor Op. 28 No. 4 "Suffocation" (1835)
So emotional yet so logical, so easy yet so tricky.

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47lM6Hvin-0

I took some liberties with it, replacing the chords on the left hands with mini arpeggios, and playing it on electric instruments. I call this take "Electrocution". :-) A little bit Vangelis-style.

The instrument is Clavia Nord Stage 2 using a sampled Rhodes Mark I electric piano set to low and a pulse wave virtual-analog waveform oscillator.

Chopin - Prelude No. 4 "Suffocation" [Electrocution]

Prelude in C Major, BWV 846, written by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1722.

Piano: Klavins Una Corda
Additional Reverb: Arturia Rev PLATE-140 (emulation)
Recording: Lewitt 640 TS, placed near the floor in front of the soundboard

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Bach Prelude No. 1 In C Major

Рубинштейн Артур - Шопен Ноктюрн Larghetto in B-flat minor, op 9, No 1

atmospheric piano + electronica

playing Barber, Beethoven, Chopin, Craig Armstrong, David Arnold & Michael Price, Ennio Morricone, Erik Satie, Handel, Harry Gregson-Williams & John Powell, John Ottman, John Williams, J.S. Bach, Kanye West, Leonard Cohen, Ludovico Einaudi, Max Richter, Michael Nyman, Michel Polnareff, Mike Oldfield, Mozart, Nino Rota, Philip Glass, Pink Floyd, Ravel, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Serge Gainsbourg, Vangelis, Vladimir Cosma, Yann Tiersen, Yiruma

Chopin: Prelude 4

Piano in a Living Room