Study Music/Piano/Classical

The Piano - The queen of all instruments ! A curated selection from my compositions where the piano is in the foreground. Enjoy listening, and let the music carress and move you !

Piano Passion

Romantic, caressing Music for String Orchestra.

Enter a world where every bow caresses the heart and every note lingers like a whispered memory. These strings ache, seduce, and embrace. 
Let the lush melodies wrap around you like silk, drawing you into a reverie of romance, yearning, and timeless passion. 
This is music for stolen glances, midnight dreams, and hearts that remember how to feel.

Emotional Strings

Orchestral Compositions. 
Music for every mood. Musik für jede Stimmung. Musique pour chaque humeur.

Sound and Moods - Orchestral Compositions

What a magic moment of seeing the sun rise !

Experience the beauty and serenity of the morning sunrise through the uplifting and emotive sounds of this orchestral morning prayer. 
This piece captures the awe-inspiring moment when the sun first rises over the horizon, filling the world with warmth and light. 
Let the music take you on a peaceful journey of reflection and renewal.

Let the Sun Rise

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Album "The Swans" - 12 Valses Melancoliques
Pianist Danaë Xanthe Vlasse (https://soundcloud.com/danae-vlasse) from Los Angeles / USA has recorded the whole "Swans" 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!

If you can´t wait for a whole year until all 12 "Swans" are uploaded onto SoundCloud -this album is available on iTunes, AmazonMP3, GooglePlay, Spotify and many other platforms:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/stephan-beneking-swans-12/id748395369
http://www.amazon.com/Stephan-Beneking-Swans-Valses-Mélancoliques/dp/B00GOG5KJK
https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Danaë_Xanthe_Vlasse_Stephan_Beneking_The_Swans_12_?id=B2fxybykicezubvzcu6lgbp3g5u
http://beneking.bandcamp.com/album/the-swans-12-valses-m-lancoliques

You can also listen to all Albums on Spotify in this 7 hour playlist of my pure neoclassical piano music here:
https://open.spotify.com/user/1155850710/playlist/754hMzwRzbXaVixnFYdcO1

A physical CD is available on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Swans-Valses-Melancoliques-played-Xanthe/dp/B00H7LI2D2/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1386957246&sr=1-1&keywords=Stephan+Beneking

The scores for this series you can find here: http://www.beneking.com/swans

A printed booklet with all scores is available on Amazon (also Amazon Europe and UK):
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Stephan+Beneking&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3AStephan+Beneking

Valses Melancholiques II-"The Swans" No 9-played by Danaë Xanthe Vlasse-on iTunes, Spotify, BandCamp

How to cope with a grave personal loss ?
This concert tells the stirring story.

First, you go through pain and despair. Then follows a rebellion and call for encouragement, repeatedly interrupted by flashbacks and sweet but painful memories.
In the finale, you accept the new reality and you move boldly to new horizons.

The 1st movement "Keys of Letting Go" begins with deep sadness, melancholy and dejection.
Slowly, note by note, chord by chord, the piano rises from the vast valley of sadness.
It throws itself into a wild dialogue with the orchestra. Angry interjections interrupt the flow several times, but the piano and orchestra always manage to pick up harmonic motives.
The movement ends powerfully, but in a minor key.

Keys for New Horizons

Keys for New Horizons - 1. Letting Go

Keys for New Horizons - 1. Keys of Letting Go

Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra in G-major.

When the sun is fading, hiding behind the leaves, 
the nature loses its fresh strength,
all colorful beauty takes a last breath.
This is the magic of fall !

The narrative of this composition:
Starting with melancholy, the lonely piano introduces the farewell of summer.
Continuing with exuberant joy, as the leaves swirl through the autumn air one last time.
Cevouring Strings carry the autumn up, into the air, in all directions.
Finally the fall gives space to winter, presented by brass instruments. Like fanfares, they blow their expectations into the wideness of space.
The music closes with a fierce repetition of the initial melody, 
all wishes and promises are now directed to the long cold winter.

Sound of Fall

Orchestral Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra about the main emotions of our life.
The first part contains an introduction and describes flavors of fear and anxiety.

Season of Mind

Fear

Season of Mind - 1. Fear

Orchestral Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra about the main emotions of our life.
The 2nd part describes flavors of Joy.

Season of Mind - 2. Joy

Orchestral Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra about the main emotions of our life.
The 4th and final part concludes with a combination of all Joy, Fear, Love and a Viennese waltz.

Season of Mind - 4. Coda

From the stillness, a tentative whisper grows slowly into a powerful declaration for peace.
This is a segment from my "Symphony of War and Peace".

Echo of Peace

The city dreams, the city lives. 
Walking through a rainy city at night.
The saxophone duels with the piano in a whisper of the city’s relentless pulse and its enduring spirit.
Every beat tells a story of passion, struggle and resilience.

A neo-classical jazzy composition for Piano, Saxophone and Orchestra.

Urban Call

Orchestral Fantasy.
Peace does not shout loudly. It is composed of many notes and small pieces of love.
Extract from my "Symphony of War and Peace".

Whisper of Peace

A love story about the beauty of nature,
a love declaration to the sea.

Prerelease of an episode from the Pandemic Symphony.

Seaside Serenade

A musical outcry from the silence of the pandemic times: I Am Alive !

This is the 1st movement of my Symphony "Alive!".

Shattered Silence

A lite Happy Birthday Song, featuring birds, instrumented by orchestra.
A delightful journey through the sounds of nature. 
An enchanting orchestral piece captures the whimsical charm and beauty of bird songs, crafted as a heartfelt birthday greeting. 
From the gentle whispers of the morning lark to the vibrant calls of the nightingale, each note weaves together a tapestry of joy and celebration.


Birdsong Birthday

Piano Quintet

Elegie for String Orchestra, Adagio in C-major.
The composition starts like a simple romance in C major, but gradually unfolds, measure by measure, into modulations that at times push the boundaries of tonality.
This music expression gives voice to the pain of the last encounter, the deeply felt affection, the memories, and the sense of loss.
The pitch and tone shifts repeatedly, mirroring the ever-changing inflection of one's voice in moments of intense emotion.
At the musical journey's emotional end, the piece resolves in the same key as it began: with a simple C major chord, softly fading into nothingness, carried gently by the contrabasses.

The Last Embrace

A veil of melancholic reflection and memory drapes itself over every sense. Gentle string music, in the spirit of Nordic Romanticism, descends like mist upon the snow-covered landscape.

Pandemic Suite – 12. Veil of Sorrow

Composer Monica Xiao
@monicaxiao

From her album "Piano Droplets"
monicaxiao.bandcamp.com/

Exquisite piano music with a jazzy touch!

Background texture by Skeletalmess
https://flic.kr/p/9z9xef

Monica Xiao: My Baby Girl

Brodmann PE-187 grand piano. AKG microphones. Pro Tools recording.

Bach - Siloti Prelude In B Minor

Vals que Frederic Chopin dedicara a Maria Wodzińska

Valse de l'adieu

Frederic Chopin Nocturne g moll Opus 37 Nr 1

Violinist, pianist, chamber and orchestral musician, devoted to composing neo-classical music. 

I want to weave a gentle, emotional orchestral language, that speaks about live and touches the heart. I try to capture these ephemeral, timeless, and moving moments, transcribing them with devotion to sound and recording them in the sound studio.

The music creations are a testament to the value of retreat,
where silence gives birth to the most profound expressions, contrapuncting the noise of our world.

Thanks for your kind listening and commenting !
Helmut / HELMUTunes