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I'm away from the piano at the moment, so I thought I'd share this with everybody...

Compositional sketch for a modern Pastoral Appassionata String Quintet.  Primary composition sometime in November 2013.  Work in progress.

Somebody asked if this is a "sad" song.  Here is my answer:

It is not a "human emotion" song.   It is more a divine/nature/universe  song.  It does not have human emotions like happy/sad.  It has only what is.  It has only pure beauty. Like a waterfall.  Or a mountain.  Or a star. A waterfall is not sad.  Or happy.  It only is. It is simply pure beauty.

Pastoral = of or referring to nature or the creator

Appassionata = with passion  (but in this case, it is not passion like between a man and woman.  it is more passion of the creator for his creation or created for his creator.)

It is more of a spiritual music.  This is what I will do more of later in life. Like these guys:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_minimalism

I aspire to follow in their footsteps one day.

Somebody asked about the plug-ins used:

Solo Bass, Cello, Viola, Violin 1, & Violin 2 from NI Kontact (standard set from Komplete) for this sketch.  Sometime later I will ideally record the real thing... (Or at least use more advanced string libraries.) 6 Instances of 2CAudio Breeze (which I am the developer of) are used here to make the Kontact Strings sound reasonably good. 

http://2caudio.com/products/breeze

The strings samples themselves are not that good.  The reverb is!  :)  That's the trick here.



Many new solo piano compositions to share with you all soon!  Happy New Year!

Andrew Souter -- Pastoral Appassionata For String Quintet (Sketch)

1. Vladimir Dashkevich - Ouverture from Sherlock Holmes, 1979
2. Muzio Clementi - Presto from Sonata #5, F-sharp moll, 1790
3. Anton Batagov - Letter From Sergei Rachmaninoff To Wim Mertens & Niccolo Paganini from Selected Letters Of Sergei Rachmaninoff, 2013
4. Ludvig van Beethoven - Presto from Sonata #14, cis-moll. Moonlight, 1801
5. Fryderyk Chopin - Fantaisie-Impromptu, 1834
6. Simeon Ten Holt - Theme II, Section 95 from Canto Ostinato, 1979
7. Johann Sebastian Bach - Prelude from Prelude & Fugue #10, e-mol, 1722
8. Ludvig van Beethoven - Allegro from Sonata #23, f-moll. Appassionata, 1805
9. Robert Schumann - Hasche-Mann from Kinderszenen, 1838
10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - (Rondo) Alla Turca from Piano Sonata #11, A-dur, 1783
11. Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto #4, F-moll. L'Inverno from Four Seasons, 1725
12. Vladimir Dashkevich - Ouverture from Sherlock Holmes, 1979

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Lawrence Wolfe, double bass; Marylou Speaker Churchill, violin, and Susan Almasy, piano perform Giovanni Bottesini's Gran Duo Concertante for Violin and Double Bass. Recorded live in Jordan Hall April 17, 1978. 

Bottesini: Tarantella Op. 9 No 2

Paul Biss conducts the New England Conservatory Symphony in a performance of Sibelius: Symphony no 2 in D major, Op. 43. Recorded live in Jordan Hall, Boston, April 9, 2014.

Sibelius: Symphony no 2 in D major, Op. 43 Allegretto

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Alone was recorded in December 2008 by Robert Ian Winstin and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra on the ERMMedia label, which ceased to exist following the untimely death of Maestro Winstin. The recording was set to be released on the Masterworks of the New Era series that was in its sixteenth volume at the time of Winstin’s death in 2010. After securing the recording masters from Susan Winstin, I was approached by PARMA Recordings with an offer to release the recording on their label. I am excited about the opportunity to work with PARMA on this, my first release with them.

Alone: Suite for Orchestra

Selection of traditional Irish tunes played on piano, accompanied by a string trio (two violins and one viola).
Played by Paul Clesham and Matthew Stein.
Recorded and mixed at Wesleyan University Experimental Music Recording Studio by Jose Maria Buendia.

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