fantastisch cooles Stück, meisterhaft eingespielt!

tolle Improvisation...superspannend...klasse cover

Piano and arrangement........Philip/Classical Glass (@classicalglass-1)
Lyric and voice ....Paolo Pieraccini / MayaDog

Philip did yet another masterpiece with his piano and I was inspired to write and sing a love song ... a poignant love

"Let there be light" Classical Glass - Vocal version by MayaDog

The free improvisation "Not Yet Titled" is the final track of our recording-session from thursday, october 17, 2013.Wim Van Stiphout  https://soundcloud.com/wim-van-stiphout played the electric guitar, and i improvised with a setup of up to 6 instruments, played more or less simultaneously. A production of  "Times In Presence"  https://soundcloud.com/times-in-presence. Artwork by Isaac Cordal http://www.isaac.alg-a.org/ Hope, you enjoy  !  

Johannes Heinen & Wim Van Stiphout - Not Yet Titled

Venetian Boat Song No. 2 (Op. 30, No. 6) - Felix Mendelssohn

One of my favorite tracks in recent times. You can listen to the original composition here: https://soundcloud.com/oraafat/remember (as well as the rest of Omar's great music). I fell in love with the mood of the original, the emotions it evokes and, of course, the beautiful melody. And so I decided to try to make my own version. Thank you Omar for such a wonderful work and for allowing me to interpret it in my own way. I hope I did well :)

Omar Raafat - Remember (Junai Niyane's Orchestral Version)

my last piano track, made for piano day 2023

A Morning Light

https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/product/our-duty-to-care-song-cycle-for-soprano-piano-trio

Our Duty to Care is a cross-disciplinary music composition based on the legal case Sharma v Minister for the Environment [2021] FCA 560, where eight Australian teenagers (namely Anjali Sharma and Isolde Raj-Seppings, Ambrose Hayes, Tomas Arbizu, Bella Burgemeister, Laura Kirwan, Ava Princi & Luca Saunders) represented by an octogenarian nun (Sister Marie Brigid Arthur) as their litigation guardian, sued the Minister for the Environment (Cth) and Vickery Coal Pty Ltd.
They successfully argued that the Minister owed them and other Australian children a duty of care, which was supposedly breached when the Minister approved the extraction of coal from a coal mine.

Whilst this decision was later successfully appealed by the Minister, this case monumentally established that climate change is legally real – with all submitted scientific evidence un-refuted. This denotes a significant shift, as we are no longer fighting to prove our climate crisis, but rather urging all to fight the crisis itself.

This work sets newly commissioned text by poet, close friend & regular collaborator Savanna Wegman, who has re-interpreted my own legal research about the case into a 3-part poem, which has in turn structured the song cycle. It embodies climate anxiety, the nervous excitement of the trial and its success, and the melancholic yet hopeful transference of ideology: how far we’ve come & how far we still have left to go.
Composed as part of and made possible by a 2022/23 University of Melbourne Wattle Fellowship.

Timing: ~ 18 minutes 
1: Robed in Apocalypse (~6min)
2: they will rise, as birds fall (~5min)
3: The Changing Wilds (~7min)

Written for Bridgette Kelsey and Solstice Trio. Dedicated to all current and future generations of Australians who inherit a climate crisis. 

Bridgette Kelsey, soprano
SOLSTICE
Isabel Hede, violin (guest)
Stephanie Arnold, cello 
Georgina Lewis, piano

Commissioned Cover Art Illustration © by Lucinda McIntyre.

Commissioned Sext Text: ‘Prophecy, as a fire comes’ by Savanna Wegman © 2022 
Text used for 1: Robed in Apocalypse:
No more prophecy 
until the sky begets a softer 
Everlasting sun 
or
the youth unravel 
braided darkness
rushing innocence
all over Earth 

Shadows designed 
for our tired birth places
ghosting the new life 
upon babbling breaths  
 
And so the young are born 
New guardians 
Robed in 
Apocalypse

Text used for 2: they will rise, as birds fall:
Know they will rise
As disappearance is written  
on ancient weather 
become beast
She watches above 
as birds fall 
out of the mother sky 

March into the high courts 
of creators and destroyers
Anjali Sharma and the army 
                  Future keepers
Enter this laced arena 
burning horizons in their bellies 

The Minister surveys the gravity
how deep we may breathe
how quickly we will fall
when the Earth veins split 
and the sanctuary howls 
at its open flesh  

The weather sounds like a whisper 
in these walls that stand for justice 
Lay down a pocketful 
of bird bones
of poison oceans

Text used for 3: The Changing Wilds
They speak for the
forgotten
Their ancestral home-body
Their drowning, burning worlds
for their lands that have lost hope 
together their voices are louder
Becoming suns
Becoming rains 
Becoming rivers multiplied 
Becoming the skyward call 
of protection 

this call
Is honoured
the duty of care rewritten
A first for acknowledging
the changing wilds

Evidence now held
in palms that believe in
collapse
and might begin to
listen
Blessing the horror 
with a soft breath of courage 

Remember how
young sacred tears 
are greeting Earth 
like miracle seeds

Our Duty to Care (LIVE)(song cycle for soprano & piano trio)(2023)(Bridgette Kelsey & Solstice Trio)

Look around... everything comes back to disappear again... like clouds in the sky…
I invite you to listen to my piano improvisation "Cloud Rondo".
The sheet music of some of my compositions can be downloaded from my website https://pianoimprovictor.com/ Some new works are available on  https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/victor-birkan-sheet-music/3028943?isPLP=1
Find all my music here: https://linktr.ee/victorbirkan

Cloud Rondo - Improvised Piano Piece

Her timelight glow

Presenting my original classical composition
"Crimson Horizon"

I have creatively used the following instruments to create an atmosphere of corrupted people in the otherworld, there are some that choose to stay till nearly the end of the composition, leaving the harp to enter into the crimson horizon, night sky alone.

I have played each of the following instruments:
Piano
Cello Legato
Cello Staccato
Cello Tremolo
Violin Section 2 Legato
Violin Tremolo
Harp playing madly as it enters the crimson horizon which appears at the end of the composition
Alchemy pads & structures

Composed & Produced
in the
ARAPA Music Studio
Sydney - Australia

11.4.2024

Crimson Horizon

Remastered by Houman (https://soundcloud.com/houmans)

Flying in the Dream

A Letter from the Past

A Letter From The Past

This piece starts off from the repeating 4 notes of the 3rd movement from Beethoven's Tempest Sonata (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRoZgmqlfso) but takes off in a much different direction with new melodies. The piece borrows from Beethoven only those repeating 4 notes and the figuration of the left hand... everything else being my own. Though the feeling is overtly Beethovian too (with all due distances, of course)... And do you sometimes hear echoes of the Für Elise? (To my ear, the Für Elise itself has echoes of the Tempest's 3rd movement, even in its opening theme.)

The title "After the Tempest" has double meaning. It "takes after" Beethoven's Tempest's 3rd movement. And it also represents the sunlight and freshness felt after a storm's atmospheric depression has passed. Triple meaning, actually, as we endure this terrible worldwide depression and wish for the day it will past us somehow...

Played by software, sorry...

The painting shown is by Thomas Cole (1836), entitled "The Oxbow" and represents an oxbow in the Delaware River after a passing storm. Beethoven's Tempest sonata was written 1801-1802 and Für Elise dates from 1810.

After The Tempest (#piano)

Welcome!

 I'm a composer, pianist and music-teacher.
 
Based on the piano, my music contains a wide range of different styles and genres:
 contemporaryclassical , orchestral, filmmusic, electronicambient, urbanelectro, chillout, jazz/fusion , avantgarde,  free improvisation , etc. I have written music for bands,  theatre, ballet, art-videos, films and features. I am available for original scoring of films, television productions and art-videos. 

 THANK YOU ALL  for listening and posting so many positive comments on my tracks! 
If you like to support my work, please feel free to make a donation: paypal.me/JohannesHeinen
 
If you like  to listen to my other projects, please visit :

http://soundcloud.com/ludwig-edel
http://soundcloud.com/interartcorporation
http://soundcloud.com/lorchestre-du-midi
http://soundcloud.com/piano-and-drums
http://soundcloud.com/times-in-presence
http://soundcloud.com/janice-9
http://soundcloud.com/johannes-10
http://soundcloud.com/groups/wave-of-silence


all the best - Johannes Heinen

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