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New album "The Swans" - 12 Valses Melancoliques
The great success of my first series "Valses melancoliques encouraged me to continue this musical idea of melancholic valses, resulting in 12 new valses from C minor to B minor.

Now I am more than happy to announce that the brilliant pianist Danaë Xanthe Vlasse (https://soundcloud.com/danae-vlasse) from Los Angeles / USA has recorded the whole series! Danaë performs these works in a masterful way, bringing interpretive variety to each waltz such that each piece portrays distinct character, and all are a delight to hear!

This album is available on iTunes, AmazonMP3, Spotify and many other platforms:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/stephan-beneking-swans-12/id748395369
A physical CD will be available on Amazon and on CreateSpace soon: https://www.createspace.com/2209540
As usual it is also available on BandCamp for the price of a coffee: https://beneking.bandcamp.com/album/the-swans-12-valses-m-lancoliques

The scores for this series you can find here: http://www.beneking.com/swans
The direct link to the booklet with all scores:
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A printed booklet with all scores will be available on Amazon soon:
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Valses Melancholiques II - "The Swans" No 1 - played by Danaë Xanthe Vlasse - now on iTunes

This is my own classical guitar arrangement of this song by the band Alter Bridge. Work in progrss

Watch Over You - Alter Bridge

- Nr. 14 (Andante) from "Introduction à l'Étude de la Guitare" op 60 -
music: Fernando Sor
guitar: F.Hiemenz
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part of a recording session, mostly in "prima vista" playing, to produce background music for a spoken therapeutic CD. 
recorded in puzzlepie studio Munich/Türkenfeld
('93)
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Find more Études from Fernando Sor at :
http://soundcloud.com/fhgitarre/sets/fernando-sor-estudios-easy-to-medium/
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restored from a CompactCassette Copy with WaveLab 7

Étude in E-minor (Andante, op.60 Nr.14) by Fernando Sor

Live concert with Siri and Elena (voice).

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Epilogue (Επίλογος)- Piano Live Somewhere in Italy.

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Regina Of The Rain

Premiere of Joel Puckett's Concerto Duo (for solo flute, solo clarinet and orchestra)
Demarre McGill, flute
Anthony McGill, clarinet
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra Allen Tinkham, conducting
Recorded live at Orchestra Hall in Chicago on May 13, 2012

PROGRAM NOTE: As I began work on this concerto for the brilliant brothers, Anthony and Demarre McGill, my thoughts naturally turned to family and
childhood. To shared experiences and the joy of comradery and sibling rivalries. Although the entire piece is dedicated to the
brothers, the movements take their inspiration from, and their dedications are given to, three very special toddlers.
The first movement carries the title, “Great American Scream Machine.” Growing up in Atlanta, my folks used to take my sister and
me to Six Flags over Georgia every summer. That park features the world’s largest wooden rollercoaster, the Great American Scream
Machine. Even as a child, I knew in my heart that it was probably a terrible idea to build a rollercoaster out of wood and an even
worse idea to be proud of having the LARGEST one. Needless to say, this thing terrified me [and does to this day].
This movement is dedicated to Roya McAllister whose parents are my dear friends, Roshanne Etezady and Timothy McAllister. I first
came to know Roshanne’s music when we were in graduate school together. She wrote a fantastic piece about motorcycles [and life]
for the Albany Symphony’s Dogs of Desire project. I remember thinking, “That first measure is AWESOME!”
In December, Roshanne and Tim welcomed their daughter Roya to the world. I stole my memory of her first measure and created a
sketch version of what eventually became this movement as tribute to her and a testament to little Roya to make sure she knows how
cool her mom is. Roya, you are a lucky little girl!
If you have ever tried to put a toddler down for a nap, you will understand the sentiments behind the second movement. The image
of the soft lullaby gently and smoothly soothing children to sleep seems ridiculous in the face of my nightly reality! My daughter fights
sleep like a heavyweight prizefighter.
Our nighttime routine has become set in stone. I give her a bath, put her in her pajamas, and we read a book or two. And then we
come to my favorite portion of the routine: the lullabies. Doing my part, I sing her slow lullabies while rocking her and she does her
part, fighting the onset of sleep.
By far her favorite lullaby is the one my grandmother [Mama Dee] used to sing to me: “Sail Far Away, Sail Across the Sea, Only don’t
forget to Sail, back again to me.”
At least, I THOUGHT it was the one Mama Dee used to sing to me. I got curious about the rest of the verses and found that the
song was written in 1898 by Alice Riley and Jesse Gaynor and has only a passing resemblance to the song I remember Mama Dee
singing to me. Better yet, it has virtually no resemblance to the lullaby I had been singing to my daughter!
So this movement is both a journey of daddy trying to coax daughter to sleep and a journey of daughter enjoying the song, fighting
sleep and eventually succumbing to slumber.
I have had this material in my head, virtually nonstop, since the day my daughter was born. I first created a winds only version of this
“lullaby” as a gift for my daughter on her 1st birthday.
Following an extended introduction of the lullaby material by the soloists, you will hear the soloists take turns trying to coax the
toddler to sleep only to be interrupted by the little stomps of a very tired and stubborn [but very cute] little girl. Approximately two
thirds of the way through the movement a dramatic change over occurs where all involved [daddy and daughter] begin to succumb to
sleep.
As the haze overtakes daddy and daughter, the lullaby appears in four-part canon, with half the orchestra singing and half the
orchestra playing the lullaby then slowly dissolving into a sleepy A-flat major chord that is sung by the entire orchestra.
Happy birthday, little A!
The soloists emerge from this singing to begin the third movement by passing apeggiations back and forth, slowly picking up more
and more steam and launching into a sounds that are reminiscent of the cool breezes and sunshine of Southern California, which is
the birthplace of Audrey Simonds’s father. This movement is dedicated to the daughter of CYSO’s own general manager, Joshua
Simonds, who has been a sounding board and source of constant support throughout my time as CYSO’s composer-in-residence.
Audrey, your Dad is a very special person.
Concerto Duo is dedicated to the amazing brothers, Anthony and Demarre McGill and their parents. They are an inspiration and
fantastic models for how to live as an artist and, more importantly, as a human. I am humbled and grateful to have them turn their
attention to my notes.
Concerto Duo premiered on mother’s day 2012, in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall by the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra
with Anthony and Demarre McGill, soloists and Allen Tinkham, conducting.

Concerto Duo with Demarre and Anthony McGill [LIVE]

Angry, angular, aggressive, all the As. Bach owning the upside down fugue :)

Partita No. 6 In E Minor, BWV 830  Gigue (James Rhodes, piano)

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my list for my midnight

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