Orchestral Mix of Dirk Maassen's White.
(Original Version @<a href=https://soundcloud.com/ascoltadi/dirk-maassen-open-collab-white>White</a>)

Dirk Maassen @<a href=https://soundcloud.com/ascoltadi/>ascoltadi</a>

Dirk Maassen & Four Walls - White (Orchestral Mix)

RED VEIL

This track is from the album Lifelines of Music and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/martinherzberg8

A River Moves My Time

An journey into the "Lost Horizon" that is full of sound and colour.

Ascending Into the Light

AMORE E PSICHE

Composer’s Note
Today, new music — or perhaps more accurately, postmodern music — has found within the contemporary soundscape its own set of conventions. These conventions impose upon the composer a particular mode of sonority and a specific way of handling the musical material. In the present work, I have sought to distance myself from such prescriptions by remaining faithful to my own aural heritage, for it is precisely this heritage that sets my musical imagination in motion.
No tradition, rule, or sound possesses the power to mend the fractured porcelain of our listening experience. Only the composer, through the act of composition itself, can forge a new alloy from all that exists — granting melody a renewed definition and being.

The recording was made in Iran, by an Iranian performer, for I believe that both the performer and the real context of performance constitute the final link in a work’s contemporaneity — capable of reawakening, within the piece itself, the very wounds that first set its creation into motion

2. Lament (for Ghazaleh Alizadeh)

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Blossom

Composed by David Julyan. String Quartet arrangement of 'Let Me Sleep' originally composed for the soundtrack for Christopher Nolan film 'Insomnia'. This piece is taken from the album ISKRA by the Iskra String Quartet. Download/Stream entire album: https://lnk.to/-pjxU 

Let Me Sleep

A track from my first album revisited and rearranged for Piano Day 2016-03-28.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJPXNNpUT34

Hej (Revisited & rearranged for Piano day 2016-03-28,video link in description)

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'Pianette' consists of a collection of solo piano compositions inspired by dreams and the bucolic fantasy of mechanical toys, the dolls, the essence of the circus and the puppets.
Available on CD, Sheet Music Book & digital.
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Fragments

La Plage / New album "Fragments" Out Now

Iskra means 'a spark' to ignite. 

Iskra is a collaborative group of string players who enjoy making music together regardless of genre. The quartet has travelled extensively across Europe with Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson, performing at various prestigious concert halls and festivals, including the Steve Reich 75th Birthday celebrations for the Barbican, London and Cork Opera House, Ireland. A highlight includes performances of 'The Miners' Hymns' collaboration with American artist film maker Bill Morrison.

Iskra has also enjoyed working closely with pianist/composer Olafur Arnalds. A concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and European tour led to an invitation to perform at the sold out launch of the album “For Now I Am Winter’ (Mercury Classics 2013) at the Barbican Concert Hall accompanied by the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Andre de Ridder.

The quartet’s work with producer Jamie xx featured on the No. 1 best selling album by The xx entitled ‘Coexist’ (Young Turks/XL 2012). Recently Iskra contributed strings to Jamie's score for Tree Of Codes, a contemporary ballet created with choreographer Wayne McGregor and visual artist Olafur Eliasson for the Manchester International Festival.

Iskra’s collaborations with composer Alex Baranowski have featured on the soundtracks to the twice BAFTA nominated film McCullin (David Morris and Jacqui Morris, 2013) and for Sir Nicholas Hytner’s production of Hamlet at the National Theatre, London starring Rory Kinnear.

In 2007 Iskra were commissioned by Radiohead and XL Recordings to create a string quartet remix of their song ‘The Reckoner’ as part of the promotion of the album ‘In Rainbows’ (XL 2007).

Other highlights include collaborations with artists such as Vampire Weekend, Sufjan Stevens, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Katie Melua, Duke Special, My Brightest Diamond and composers Dustin O'Halloran and David Julyan. Recently Iskra performed as a trio alongside The Lone Bellow on Later...with Jools Holland (BBC Two).

Their forthcoming album celebrates their 10th anniversary and includes contributions from composers Johann Johannsson, Olafur Arnalds, David Julyan, Peter Gregson, Alex Baranowski, Isobel Waller-Bridge, Luke Anthony and Paul Frith.