can't wait till Vivaldi drops a new album, he probably cooking sum.. hasn't released in years

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Arguably Chopin's greatest composition. If you can offer a description using words you're much smarter than I am...

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Chopin Ballade No 4 In F Minor Op 52

Antonio Vivaldi - La Follia, Op. 1 N. 12 Sonata For 2 Violins & B.c. In D Minor

My take on Chopin's saddest little prelude.  Two and a half minutes of ache.


Chopin Prelude No. 4 In E Minor, Op. 28

Antonin Dvorak - Humoresk

Yet another collaboration with Fivos... a music for your next film. 
Original piano track by Fivos Valachis (https://soundcloud.com/fivosvalachis/sets/the-next-film-open/), arranged for orchestra - and, again, piano.

The Next Film

The Next Film (collaboration with Fivos Valachis)

#1 Billboard Classical
#1 iTunes Classical Album (US)
#1 Amazon Classical

License this piece at - 
https://www.musicbed.com/songs/nocturneinfminore28093op552cno128variation29/12742

Steinway artist, Chad Lawson, decided Chopin needed a new introduction.  Along with violinist Judy Kang (Lady Gaga, Ryuichi Sakamoto) and cellist Rubin Kodheli (Kanye West, Norah Jones), Lawson has arranged ten Chopin works into a minimalist landscape.

It's a risk editing the "poet of the piano" but one that Chopin would be proud of.  

Taking 10 Chopin works, Lawson decided to scale the works down to a minimalist setting.  "I knew even if bare-bones, Chopin's works could still be as spellbinding as the original compositions we are so familiar with." says the pianist.  

Produced by Chad Lawson & Alejandro Clavijo. Mixed by Stephen Lee Price.  Mastered by Michael Graves of Osiris Studios (Atlanta, GA).

Chopin Nocturne in F Minor-Op. 55, No 1 (Variation) Piano, Violin, Cello - Chad Lawson

https://cullens.bandcamp.com/track/solveigs-song-grieg
Cello quintet arranged and performed by Deryn Cullen.
Solveig's Song is one of the movements from Grieg's Peer Gynt, Op. 23. It was the incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play of the same name.

Grieg - Solveig's Song (cello quintet)

A story of love, science, and hope in times of war and climate catastrophe. It is a musical about responsibility, resistance, and how a single voice can change the world – even in the deepest silence

THE VOICES IN THE SILENCE

The Connection

A new composition for cello and piano - composed and performed by Deryn Cullen
© Striking Media Music/ Cullen Media Music 2016

Feather Flight

My next piece is the theme song from the movie Requiem for a dream. Now this piece has a pretty interesting history. So let me take you through it. Yes you’ve to learn something before you get to listen to my songs :P .

Requiem is generally used in the context of a Requiem Mass, meaning a Mass (Church Mass) for the dead.

Now going back in history, around 1791, there was a brilliant composer and musician by the name Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, or Mozart :P . The count Franz von Walsegg commissioned Mozart to create a Requiem through a lot of agents, supposedly to take the work and call it as his own among his audience. Mozart was already very sick at that time. Even with his sickness, the genius composed the first movement of the song called the Requiem aeternam before he passed away! The count was willing to pay only half the money since only part of the work was completed. Hence his Widow approached other composers to help her out in finishing Mozart’s work. Joseph von Eybler, Franz Xaver Süssmayr and Maximilian Stadler and many others helped complete the song that has hence been called Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor.

Zoning back to our times, Clint Mansell, a famous Music composer decided to take Mozart’s Requiem as an inspiration and compose a Requiem named Lux Aeterna. This was orchestrated in many places like the title song for Requiem for a dream and in Lord of the Rings and so on.

The song itself is incredible powerful. This might be because of the fact that Death in itself is a very powerful entity in human minds. The original song is orchestrated. I’ve tried to capture the orchestration and the song’s mood into a piano cover. Just as usual, be my guest and let me know how I’ve done.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem for a dream

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto No23 in A

Chopin - Prelude in E Minor, No. 4, Op. 28

This track is from the album Saint-Saens violin Concerto, Beethoven Triple Concerto and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/allaa

Camille Saint-Saens, violin concerto N.3 in B minor op 61, 3rd m

With over thirty years of professional music experience as a recitalist and concerto soloist, Michael Ward is a pianist of outstanding gifts.  In possession of a prodigious virtuoso technique, deep music insight and thorough understanding of all the music he performs,  Michael is in total command of his art and he uses all his considerable musical and pianistic skills to communicate the music he plays in a sincere and genuine manner to every member of his audience. 

Michael gave his first public piano recital aged 9 and after a period of study with the celebrated pianist Danielle Salamon he won the International Fritz Gottlieb Memorial Scholarship for excellence in piano performance which resulted in two years study in London with Vera Yelverton.  During this time he was offered recitals and concerto performances throughout the UK and consequently Michael was invited to study the piano works of Franz Liszt privately with the famous Hungarian concert pianist Louis Kentner. 

Throughout his career, in addition to his concert activities as a soloist,  Michael's skills as a piano accompanist and chamber musician have been much sought after by countless instrumentalists,  singers and chamber ensembles in music from Baroque to the present day.  As a consequence,  in all three roles Michael has amassed a vast repertoire and he has given concerts throughout the world in many of the most prestigious venues as well as making numerous commercial recordings and playing for both Radio and Television broadcasts in the UK and abroad.


'I have performed many recitals across the UK with Michael.  An innate sense of phrasing, articulation and presentation distinguishes all his performances and lends all his concerts a real sense of occasion.  It is a rare privilege to meet such a distinguished and unpretentious musician. I have always admired Michael’s commitment to music and he continues to inspire those with whom he comes into contact.’     
David Pyatt,  Internationally renowned French Horn Virtuoso and Principal with the London Symphony Orchestra.



Antonio Vivaldi - La Follia, Op. 1 N. 12 Sonata For 2 Violins & B.c. In D Minor

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