Retro Electro

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

Dante's Prayer

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

Oscillation

tenerife sea (lovely & beautiful piano)

Serein II

A lot is happening in my life at this moment. Sometimes for me music is a way to escape all the stuff, that makes life complicated. I started working on this new ep and had a lot of emotions and thoughts, which were in need of some form of expression. I really hope you like my compositions, because I put a lot of love, time and work into these. From writing to playing the tracks in a recording environment - I did everything on my own! :) 

Special thanks to DSN Audiprodukion for recording me in his studio, mixing and mastering!

What do you feel when you hear this music?

Stories Unwritten

Dirk Maassen - Winter Blue

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]

Send me your flowers, of your december..

(Eng) First track that opens the album "A Dream Come True" by Javier Quilis.
It´s a composition inspired by the Monastery of La Murta, a beautiful place located in his hometown (Alzira).
The music was performed by more than 60 musicians from the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, in Hungary.
(Esp) Primer tema que abre el disco "A Dream Come True" de Javier Quilis. 
Se trata de una composición inspirada en el Monasterio de la Murta, un precioso lugar situado en su ciudad natal (Alzira).
El tema fué grabado íntegramente en Hungría, con más de 60 músicos de la Budapest Symphony Orchestra.

Monastery Of La Murta (Tribute I)

المقطوعة الأصلية:
Vadim Kiselev - Ave.

شتات.

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]

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)

Electric Violin meets Deep House in this anthemic motivational track dedicated to living your passion. The arrangement leans towards deep house with a twist, using various electric violins as main instruments and sound design materials, to create a brighter emotional vibe.

Live Your Love

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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

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