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

Surrender

Music, piano, prog. strings, mix: Vicente Bueso

Moon

Hey, it’s me again!
Butterfly is a single presented in three distinct versions, each offering a unique perspective on one central musical idea.

The main track opens with a delicate Moog sequence that gradually blossoms into a flowing felt piano motif. This progression mirrors a metamorphosis—symbolizing the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly, both sonically and conceptually.

The two companion versions zoom in on the gentle piano theme. By shifting tempo and texture, they unfold into their own quiet spaces—each one intimate, warm, and introspective, offering a softer lens on the original idea.

If you’d like to play it yourself, the sheet music is available for free on Bandcamp: ttps://sebastianmorawietz.bandcamp.com/album/butterfly-piano-solo-free-sheet-music-pdf

Butterfly

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Today, I’m sharing the second version of my track Butterfly (with the third and final version coming next week alongside the official release). This Slow Piano Version is noticeably slower and more atmospheric than the previously released Piano Solo Version, offering a gentler, more introspective experience.

Remember, if you’d like to play it yourself, you can also grab the sheet music on Bandcamp via this link:
https://sebastianmorawietz.bandcamp.com/album/butterfly-piano-solo-free-sheet-music-pdf

Enjoy the music, and let me know what you think in the comments! 

Yours truly,
Sebastian

Butterfly (Slow Piano Version)

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Amy's Tune

Music, piano, synths, mix: Vicente Bueso

(c) Science Teheran 2025 / Luminous Path

Pandora

Sheet Music: https://sebastianmorawietz.bandcamp.com/album/passage-of-time-free-sheet-music
Video: https://youtu.be/A-NPT_9SKG4
Hey, it’s me again!
This piece has a long history. I wrote it many years ago, back when I was living in Liverpool. The original title was Waterloo – named after the small seaside town just outside the city. I often took the train out there, just to walk along the shore and gather my thoughts.

The sea has always had a deep, humbling power to me – vast, strong, timeless. It teaches you humility. Being near it felt like standing next to something ancient and wise.

Recently, I rediscovered this piece and played it again. It felt like a quiet conversation with the sea – me asking, the sea answering. That’s how I shaped the sections of the piece: a dialogue between the searching and the still, the questioning and the calm.

The visuals in the video are simple – I’m still learning and experimenting – but they’re meant to hint at that inner process, that silent exchange with something greater.

Thank you for listening.

Yours truly,
Sebastian Morawietz

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Passage Of Time (Notes From The Shore)

Hey, it’s me again. I just uploaded a new piece – something quiet, something gentle.

This piece was written and recorded in my small studio in Berlin,
on my felted Bechstein piano.

It’s a quiet track – not slow, just gentle.
There’s a kind of weightlessness in it
that reminded me of how things felt
before we started calling them memories.

The title came early. Letters of Lightness.
I didn’t imagine them written down.
More like: moments you carry without knowing.
Not written, but felt.

I’d love to hear what it brings up for you.
Thanks for listening.

Yours truly,
Sebastian Morawietz

Letters Of Lightness

Of course, it's not Halloween yet, but here's a sneak preview 😀
The choice of title reveals that this is a traditional folk song with elements of neoclassical music.

Samhain, which is pronounced “Sauwen” (with a breathy “w”), marks the beginning, end and new beginning. While the time of summer has finally come to an end, a new year is already beginning...

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Samhain

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]

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]

Summa for Saxophone Quartet :

Annick Henquet (sax soprano)
Jori Klomp (sax alto)
Adèle Querinjean (sax tenor)
Thibault Collienne (sax baryton)

Summa (composed by Arvo Pärt)

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)

The Flight of the Bumblebee, composed by Rimsky-Korsakov, arranged for piano by Rachmaninov. This is originally an orchestral interlude composed in 1899 for some opera nobody knows about, but this little interlude is so fun and famous.

I took me lot of hours practicing like a parrot, for this so-so result. I'm not very good at this and enjoy better non percussive Vangelis style better but this is a good track to show off. :-)

The instrument is a Clavia Nord Stage 2 using a sampled Petrof upright piano with lot of reverb and some overdriven synthesizer. Speed is 170BPM (more than 11 notes per second).

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiTgcVl41sQ

Flight Of The Bumblebee [amateur piano + synth]

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

Flight Of The Bumblebee [amateur piano + synth]

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