Cant believe Vangelis is well in his 70s and still going strong

Uma música de uma sensibilidade genial. Aliás, toda essa OST é uma obra prima!

A song of great sensitivity. In fact, all this Blade Runner OST is a masterpiece of Vangelis!

Cinematic

Vangelis' Prelude from the "Voices" album released in 1995.

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhkRKpFzgdw

The instrument is a Nord Stage 2 using a sampled Steinway Model D grand piano, sampled Mellotron flute, and some virtual analog synth. Lot of reverb with a hint of echo.

Video

Vangelis - Prelude (Voices)

Live video: https://youtu.be/VacHQfyaas8

The iconic track composed by Vangelis in 1980.

Piano / Orchestra / Electric Piano echoes : Dexibell VIVO S9
Brass: Yamaha reface CS
Mr Bean: Sequential OB-6
Beat: Elektron Rytm

Vangelis - Chariots of Fire [cover]

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

Abraham's Theme composed by Vangelis for the iconic Chariots of Fire soundtrack in 1980.

Electric piano + pads: Dexibell VIVO S9 + Strymon NightSky reverberator
Synth: Sequential OB-6 + Strymon Volante magnetic echo with Expressive E Touché
Additional electric piano: Yamaha reface CP + Korg NTS-1 reverb + delay

Vangelis - Abraham's Theme [cover from Chariots of Fire]

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

Live video: https://youtu.be/9UkfFSejzq8

Acoustic version of Vangelis' Prelude from the "Voices" album released in 1995.

Piano: Klavins Una Corda

Live video: https://youtu.be/I1JrKgQDTB4

The iconic soundtrack composed by Vangelis in 1980.

Acoustic piano : Klavins Piano Una Corda
Digital wind: Haken EaganMatrix ContinuuMini

Vangelis - Chariots Of Fire Suite [Switched-Off cover]

Extrait de la musique du long métrage de fiction "Le Bout du monde" d'Hakim Noury, interprété au concert de musique de film pour les 10 ans de l'Union des Compositeurs de Musique de Films (U2C), "B.O. concert" au Grand Rex à Paris, le 10 janvier 2014 par l'orchestre COGE sour la direction d'Aurélien Azan-Zielinski.

Filature

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)

In The Doors album, An American Prayer, Jim Morrison recites poetry with what seems to be an adapted musical arrangement of the "Adagio in G minor" being played in the background for Feast of Friends. Yngwie Malmsteen's Icarus Dream Suite Op. 4 is inspired and based mainly on "Adagio in G minor."

Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (b. June 8, 1671, Venice, Republic of Venice; d. January 17, 1751, Venice, Republic of Venice) was a Venetian Baroque composer. He is remembered today primarily for his instrumental music, particularly the oboe concertos. Albinoni's work is still regularly recorded and the The "Adagio in G minor" attributed to him (actually a later reconstruction) is one of the most frequently recorded pieces of Baroque music. Known in his day as an opera composer, he wrote some fifty operas, 28 of of which were produced in Venice between 1723 and 1740.

His instrumental music greatly attracted the attention of Johann Sebastian Bach, who wrote at least two fugues on Albinoni's themes and constantly used his basses for harmony exercises for his pupils.

Part of Albinoni's work was lost in World War II with the destruction of the Dresden State Library, thus little is known of his life and music after the mid 1720s.

The Albinoni "Adagio in G minor" is a 1958 composition by Remo Giazotto, allegedly based on fragments from a slow movement of a trio sonata he had been sent by the Dresden State Library. 

Adagio - T. Giovanni Albinoni

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/pAfsEEChPDU

The iconic theme from Chariots of Fire, composed by Vangelis for the 1981 British award winning movie.

The instrument is a Nord Piano 3 using a sampled sampled Shigeru Kawai SK7 grand piano with delay and synthetic strings with phaser.

Vangelis - Chariots of Fire [soft piano cover]

This is the main theme from Missing composed by Vangelis. The film, directed by Costa Gravas, was released in 1982.

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/copynotice?feature=vm&video_id=jyJlc6TN-1k

The instrument is a Nord Stage 2, using a sampled Steinway grand piano with boosted pedal noises and virtual analog synthesizers controlled with an expression pedal, along with a very generous amount of reverb and a hint of echo.

Vangelis - Missing

Abraham's Theme composed by Vangelis for the legendary Chariots of Fire soundtrack in 1981.

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNfLGn9xZho

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.

Vangelis - Abraham's Theme (Chariots of Fire)

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)

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

Vangelis - Piano in an Empty Room (Blade Runner)

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