Orchestral Prelude (Orchestral Pieces Set 2) Work in Progress Nicolas Kingman

Hope you enjoy this piano piece recorded on a Bosendorfer.

Now I Know

Concerto per Pianoforte e Orchestra da Camera
   I - calmo, simpatico e sereno
   II - veloce, giocoso e furioso / serioso e sfacciata / veloce, giocoso e furioso / energico e bruto
   III - sereno e quasi nebbia

Note:
This concerto is the first significant work composed having moved to Italy.  There is a new found peace in this work, even if the second movement is intentionally exciting.  However, the music's harmonies are more open and purposefully beautiful.  The work, cast in three movements, has no programmatic intent, but there is a clear musical journey, based on a mix of dialogue between soloist and orchestra, where ideas bounce back and forth, and where independence of spirit is always evident, even if the two characters (so to speak) are good companions.  The work is dedicated to my wife, Giuliana.

This electronically created audio version is intended for study purposes only.

image: Creative Commons Licence

Concerto per Pianoforte e Orchestra da Camera

Recorded live on What ever Works! contemporary music festival in concert "Five Inner Worlds" at Sigyn Hall on 7th February 2016.

Varvintori Orchestra
Conductor: Lauri Haapanen
Piano: Elvin Agakishiev
1st violins: Vadim Grumeza, Irina Rusu, Emmi Salmi, Riitta Taara,  Ferhad Mehmet, İlayda Köksal
2nd violins: Vilma Tumanoff, Li Qi, Mari Oksanen, Elsi Goesch, Çınar Yazgan
Violas: Iida Falck, Eeva Tenkanen, Katriina Rautio
Cellos: Anni Manninen, Aki Yrjä, Oliver Müller
Double bass: Elli Helske

Chrysalism

Arrangement/transcription of Por una Cabeza for string quartet, inspired by the version heard in the movie "Scent of a Woman".

Performed by Lumo Ensemble:
Emmi Salmi, violin
Liisi Uusitalo, violin
Tuuli Amrahova, viola
Johanna Jaakkola, cello

Por una Cabeza (excerpt)

Concerto in Clockwork is a piece that tells the story of a lonely voice that is lost in clockwork. 

The piece was performed live at the Royal Academy of Music on the 1st of December 2019 by Umberto Jacopo Laureti, alongside the Olyver New Music Collective Orchestra. This was the first venture of the Olyver New Music Collective Orchestra.

The piece was premiered by the London Mozart Players and Soma Balázs-Piri on October 12th 2019 at St. John the Evangelist. You can read more about the piece here:

Concerto in Clockwork - for piano and small orchestra

This is the first movement of a big Tone Poem in 15 movements that I composed and completed in its basic notation in March/April of this year.   Unfortunately I almost completely forgot about the expression marks, and I was hoping that human players would be available so I could explain to them how the different movements should be performed.  But, alas , no human players were available, so I've added quite a lot of expression indications to this first movement called "Preamble" and the computer therefore makes a reasonable performance of the piece.  I will add more expression marks but for tonight this is what I could do.   
      All 15 movements were completed by the beginning of April, and since then I've been desperately looking for human players. But, nobody has time to try my pieces.  The whole work lasts 110 minutes, for which I have been criticised . It's a tone poem describes the life of an imaginary, and somewhat heroic character called Arghrard Vestipherty, in pure music without any words at all.   "Preamble" is just a long introduction to the Tone Poem, giving an idea of what is to come.

Vestipherty Trio I ,Preamble.

Cocktail Dress

Oboe d'amore, Viola, Viola da gamba and Harpsichord. Keyboard realisation by Nicolas Kingman.

Bach Trio Sonata BWV 526 C Minor arranged for ensemble by Nicolas Kingman

Etude 1067 for violin & 2 analogue synthesisers(17nov20-8,8)

etude1067

See the score: https://issuu.com/utsyochakraborty/docs/chakraborty_a_concerto_for_piano_and_orchestra

A Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (2020-21) 

1. A Triptych: Prelude - Partita - Toccata I (0:00-10:30)
2. Introduction - Cadenza - Nocturne (10:30-20:05)
3. Finale - Toccata II (20:05-29:12)

to Nicolas Kingman, on his 45th birthday. 

"A Concerto for Piano and Orchestra" was composed between the months of August and December 2020, with revisions being made in January 2021. Writing a concerted piece for piano with orchestra had always been something I wanted to do. After six abortive attempts over a span of 7 years did this piece come along. As time passed, my own conception of the work changed. I wanted to create a piece in which the orchestra had an important role to play and was not just merely accompanying the piano. Each instrumental group is an individual voice, or as Harry Birtwistle says "voices in a football chorus". The piece is laid out in three movements, closely interconnected to each other. The first movement is a Triptych, beginning with a brash and aggressive prelude and then leading into a playful game (thus, partita) before concluding with a rhythmically agile toccata. The second movement, a nocturne, is linked to the previous movement via a cadenza. This movement features a melody, developing slowly in the winds and brass, with commentary from the Piano, percussion and strings, till there is an almost exultant release of energy making that developing melody present itself uninterrupted. This leads directly into the third movement, which transforms the material of the toccata of the first movement into a frantic, jovial dance which dies away in the spirit of the nocturne. 

The work is a 45th birthday present for Nicolas Kingman, with whom I have had some wonderful conversations in music and who "wanted to hear the Piano Concerto quite eagerly!" 


Vestipherty Trio I ,Preamble.

Julian Abbott

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