Name: Interlude for Una Corda (Piano Day 2020) by Giovanni Renzo
Duration: 4 min 38 s
Description: An improvisation exploiting the sensitive sound of the Una Corda piano, the unique instrument created by David Klavins.

Hi. I added this track to Piano Gems playlist 👏👏👏

I honestly can’t believe that summer is already over. Well, I know that technically, it ends sometime around September 22nd in the Northern Hemisphere (sorry, Australian friends), but still, today is the end of August, and somehow it feels like the last page in a chapter before we move to the next. This one felt shorter and winter is coming. Night gathers, and now my watch begins. Er… sorry, I got carried away there for a second. It’s not nearly as dark here as in the world of ice and fire, and if need a bit of daylight I can turn to Simeon Walker and his upcoming four-track EP, from which I am happy to share a track with you today, appropriately titled “Gleam”. Elegantly executed on his upright piano (recorded in his living room), this charming transitory piece says all there is to say in its brief lifespan. The EP tastefully moves on into a slightly sentimental space, where Walker intimately shares the sound of his ache perceived in silence. And in the span of all of ten minutes of its time the music’s gone, the way the summer’s gone, and all the sunshine with it. The good news here is that I can hit “repeat”. The release has been mastered by Martyn Heyne and the beautiful album artwork drawn by Gregory Euclide. This collection of pieces is the first instalment in the new series of EPs under the name Imprints, with its initial self-released volume out on October 29th, 2021.

"Imprints offered me the opportunity to return to my first love – the felted, solo piano that means so much to me […] The pieces are shorter than I have often released – quick, fleeting moments in time, yet still, I hope, intimate enough for listeners to imagine listening to me playing them in the context of my front room, where I make most of my music and where I feel most at home." — Simeon Walker

Imprints

Gleam

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Weave

It's the 1st advance from my forthcoming album ‘Ver Sacrum’, out on March 10 through ad21
"Spectral and haunting, there’s an almost monastic quality to ‘Sacred Spring’, the first piece to be taken from pianist and composer Bruno Sanfilippo’s forthcoming new album ‘Ver Sacrum’. An air of quiet solitude too; poignant strings wash in and out of focus punctuated by a slow, melancholic organ line. Like all his best work, it’s emotionally resonant yet quietly captivating, a master class in mood and shadow" Derek Robertson, journalist and music writer: Guardian, Independent, NME, VICE, Timeout, The Quietus, The Face.

Vanesa Tomás (Soprano)
Mariel Aguilar (Mezzo Soprano) 
Analog mastered by Ian Hawgood, 
Cover by Javier Guglielmi 

https//www.bruno-sanfilippo.com

Ver Sacrum

Sacred Spring

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Never lose hope (NEW)

"Hello World" is my entry to Piano Day 2016.
http://www.pianoday.org
#PianoDay

Mash Waves Music is a music project by Daniel Soffner based in Melbourne, Australia.

Blog:   http://mashwavesmusic.soffner.com
Bandcamp:  https://mashwavesmusic.bandcamp.com
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Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/MashWavesMusic

Hello World

Bandcamp: derekhunterwilson.bandcamp.com/album/abstraktes-vol-1
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/7xtTdQZlcEdkBKCO8Rg2D7
iTunes: music.apple.com/us/album/abstraktes-vol-1-ep/1503041634
Amazon: amazon.com/Abstraktes-Vol-Derek-Hunter-Wilson/dp/B085ZCKCVR

Recorded in celebration of Nils Frahm's #PianoDay. This is part of an EP of improvised pieces recorded during a recording session in Feb '16 at Type Foundry Studios in Portland, OR by Jason Powers who also mixed and mastered these recordings. 

Read more about Piano Day: www.pianoday.org/

Abstraktes #5

artwork by Colin Herrick - Time Released Sound

Sykkel

The full album can be purchased here (Artwork included):
https://nyctalgia.bandcamp.com/album/a-hint-of-eternity

It is also on Itunes, Spotify, etc. (Artwork NOT included).

I'd really appreciate your support, be it in buying the album or just listening and sharing it with your friends! =)
I hope you'll enjoy it!

Silvio

One Heartbeat Away

I wrote this composition in memory of the 17 victims killed in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.  

@ 2018 Roger Hooper Music

Clouds

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An improvisation exploiting the sensitive sound of the Una Corda piano, the unique instrument created by David Klavins.

Interlude for Una Corda (Piano Day 2020)

There are some pieces that exist quite simply to brighten your day... the instruments dance and you are there, enthusiastically acting along to an indescribable scene....

'People' by @oliver-patrice-weder is just such a piece :) Feeling elated to share it with you, as entry no. 5 in our summer single series.

🎵 orcd.co/opw-people

Artwork by Mikhail Mishin / Mastered by Martyn Heyne

People

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Oliver Patrice Weder - People

Giovanni Renzo  was born in Messina, Italy, in 1962. He graduated from the Conservatorio “Corelli” in his hometown in 1986, continuing his musical education in Rome. He made his debut in 1979 as a jazz pianist. He regularly plays at concerts and festivals, alternating his concerts with teaching and composition. Renzo has composed music for films, theater, ballet, opera, multimedial performances. His first recording, “Eclisse” (1989), is a collection of piano solo compositions. Then he produced “La distanza della Luna” for piano and orchestra (1996 and 2007), “Il mare” (2001), live recording featuring Paolo Fresu and “Suono e ritmo quintet", "Atlas Coelestis", book plus DVD (2008), “Infanzia” (2008) and "Racconti per pianoforte" (2010), again piano solo. The musicbook for iPad "Racconti per pianoforte" is available for free on the iBookstore. Recently Renzo was quoted by the Spanish Blog "Los mejores pianistas del Mundo" as one of the world's greater pianist, mainly for his original work about music and astronomy.

Interlude for Una Corda (Piano Day 2020)

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