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Jean Sibelius: Five pieces for piano Op.75 No.5: The Spruce (Kuusi)

(10) Nocturne No. 10 In A Flat Major, Op. 32, No. 2

Miroirs is a suite for solo piano written by French composer Maurice Ravel between 1904 and 1905. First performed by Ricardo Viñes in 1906, Miroirs contains five movements, each dedicated to a fellow member of the French avant-garde artist group, Les Apaches.

Une barque sur l'océan ("A Boat on the Ocean") is the third movement from the work and is dedicated to Paul Sordes, the piece recounts a boat as it sails upon the waves of the ocean. Arpeggiated sections and sweeping melodies imitate the flow of ocean currents. It is the longest piece of the set, and the second most technically difficult.

Miroirs 3 - Une Barque Sur L'Océan

The Flashbulb is one of my biggest musical influences and an unbelievable composer. The piano track used in this tune is "Solitary Living" which can be found on The Flashbulb's newest album "Compositions for Piano", available on his Bandcamp.
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Unsung Hero

When Sunny Gets Blue (Album Version)

Chopin: Preludes etc

24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 4 in E Minor

Chopin: Nocturnes

Chopin: Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1

Back In Black

Hells Bells

Chopin: Nocturne No. 2 In E Flat, Op. 9 No. 2

Chopin: Nocturne No. 15 In F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1

Schubert: Winterreise

Winterreise, D. 911: Gute Nacht

Astral Meditations: The Music Of Alice Coltrane

Journey In Satchidananda (feat. Pharoah Sanders)

Drukqs

Avril 14th

Water

Debussy: Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: No. 10, La cathédrale engloutie

As my father would not buy a record player, I often went to the public library as a teenager to listen to classical music. One of my favourite records was the Boston Pops recording of Gaîté Parisienne, a ballet comprised of tunes by Jacques Offenbach. Offenbach composed nearly 100 operettas in mid-nineteenth century Paris and was a great influence on other composers such as Johann Strauss Jr. He also composed an unfinished opera, The Tales of Hoffmann, which is still performed. When we think of Can Can music, we are likely thinking of the Galop from his operetta Orpheus in the Underworld.

Offenbach had a gift for romantic melodies and one of the most beautiful is the Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann. It is a duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano whose voices intertwine in the same octave. The lyrics extol the beauty of the night and of love ("Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour"). The setting is Venice and the rhythm of the music suggests the gentle paddling of gondoliers.  The word "barcarolle" is derived from the Italian word for "boat".

Source: Wikipedia

Barcarolle - Jacques Offenbach

Solipsism

Sleeping Lotus

Year 1955/56
"the first masterpiece of electronic music" (Simms 1986, 391; Kohl 1998, 61)

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge

Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28, is a piano sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. It was named Pastoral or Pastorale by Beethoven's publisher at the time, A. Cranz. While not as widely recognised as its immediate predecessor, Piano Sonata No. 14, it is admired for the intricacy and technicality in the beauty it portrays. It takes roughly 35 minutes to play the entire work as intended with repeats.
Published in 1801, it is dedicated to the Count Joseph von Sonnenfels. This sonata was written at a time when Beethoven's alarm at his worsening deafness was increasing. Nevertheless, Beethoven paints a serene image with this sonata.

Piano Sonata Op.28 No.15 in D Major "Pastoral" by Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Performed live on 17 January 2020
Weston Gallery (Steinway B)
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

Weston Gallery

César Franck, Prélude, Chorale et Fugue

Abysses

Le salaire de la peur

Classical Alex

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