Name: Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker - Overture by Fiona Bechmann
Duration: 1 min 13 s
Description: Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker - Overture

"Offrande" ("Offering") for piano solo, beautifully performed and recorded by the amazing Phil Best, to whom I give my profound thanks.

Score available for purchase at: http://www.swirlymusic.org/music/solo-piano/r-a-moulds-offrande-for-solo-piano/

Offrande (performed and recorded by Phil Best)(Op. 88, 2013)

Grieg - Arietta - Op 12 no 1

From a collection of 66 lyric piano pieces composed by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

Recorded by Fiona Bechmann November 2021

Grieg - Arietta - Op 12 no 1

Grieg - Arietta

inspired by 
"To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.—Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd."
Hamlet, Act III, Scene I
William Shakespeare

to sleep; perchance to dream

Part of the Facet series of sculpted improvisations.

Facet 8

Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker - Overture

Part soundtrack and part piano concerto (slow movement) "Adagio" combines cinematic piano playing surrounded by a rich string orchestra in the style of the great romantic orchestral composers of the late 19th and early 20th century. A stirring and highly emotional soundtrack for an epic love story. 

Journey of the Heart

Adagio For Piano And Strings (Cinematic Love Theme)

Just found this recording in my archive, hope you enjoy!

Bach Partita C - Moll - Courante

Aquarelles: I. Chrysanthèmes (Chrysanthemums) performed by the amazing Phil Best. So beautiful.

Aquarelles: I. Chrysanthèmes (performed by Phil Best)

David Robertson, conductor
Recorded at the Sydney Opera House on 15 February 2014
Audio kindly supplied by Silver Partner ABC Classic FM

BEETHOVEN Symphony No.7: 1. Poco sostenuto — Vivace

Nocturne No 6 Hommage a Erik Satie

"La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin" by Claude Debussy

Violin: Lelie Cristea
Piano Instrumental Accompaniment: Tamilla Guliyeva
Sound Recording by Arthur Jogerst

Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker - Overture

Fiona Bechmann

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