Orchestral Compositions from 2022 and 2023

This piece moves through its various phases at a slow and deliberate pace overcoming difficulties encountered along the way and moving on to a relaxed ending. This remix contains edited segments improving the voice leading which in some places is unusual to say the least. The track has also been updated using the Soundcloud automatic mastering service.

Solemn Aria 19 April 2020 Remixed 4 July 2022 (Mastered)

On Approaching an Oasis during a Storm

This piece explores my emotional response to climate change, something which is very much part of the historical moment of the world into which I was born.
The music is dissonant, the harmonies all being derived from the chord of the augmented eleventh familiar to many as a jazz chord also used in blues. The modification of an idea at the end of a fast rising octaphonic scale, inverting its first appearance (descending), is intended to convey the important message of spirited hope coming from practical activists such as Greta Tunberg who work to alter the balance of power between institutional inertia and ecological necessity.

I am dedicating this piece to her and to all fellow climate change activists both old and young.

Production and mastering by John Cafarella. 

This track uses the East West Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Library.

Cafarella

On approaching an Oasis During a storm (Revised 30 December 2022)

Night of Golden Stars
A neo-classical  piece for (virtual) Orchestra featuring French Horn.
Revised 4 January 2023
Produced and mastered by John Cafarella
This version uses the East West Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra sample library and features the French Horn samples.

Night of Golden Stars (EWQLSO)Revised 7 January 2023

My 'Adagio for Expanded Chamber Orchestra' draws heavily on the music of the late romantic composers Bruckner Wagner and Mahler but does its (acknowledged)borrowing in a uniquely improvisational and individualistic style style for which I make no apology.
The music in this piece is sometimes dramatic, and as the piece unfolds, its structure in terms of the golden section durations it employs become evident and I hope pleasing to the listener
This track was mastered by John Cafarella.

Adagio For Orchestra An Exercise in Late-Romantic Harmony (Remix 24 February 2023)

This is a variation of a sort on a musical fragment which appears in the theme  music for the TV series 'All Creatures great and Small' and also in  the first movement of my Tripartite Fantasy and is  constructed as a free flowing set of improvisations on a simple basic idea This simple idea is treated in a linear polyphonic way resulting in a texture which moves between consonant and dissonant harmony ending on a C major chord.
N.B. A similar musical idea treated in a much different way also appears in the first movenent of my Tripartite Faantasy posted here: https://soundcloud.com/julian-cafarella/allegro-vivace-for-chamber-orchestra
This version was mastered by John Cafarella

Dr M : Sort of a TV Theme (Revised 17 March 2023)

Four preludes ranging over the instruments of a Large Concert Orchestra,
1 C major for two pianos
2 in D major for large wind ensemble
3 in A minor: a canon for Horn and Flute 
4 in C major/minorfor full band of orchestra

These are essentially improvisations for sampled instruments carried out in a music notation program.
This track has been mastered by emastered online mastering service.

4 Preludes for expanded Chamber Orchestra (Revised 12 June 2023)

From four preludes ranging over the instruments of a Large Concert Orchestra,
this is the fourth Prelude 4 in C major/E flat for full band of orchestra

This is essentially an improvisation for sampled instruments carried out in a music notation program. (Dorico)
This track has been mastered by emastered online mastering service.

Prelude 4 in E flat/C for Chamber Ensemble (Revised 12 June 2023)

Chordal Mixtures

This piece features harmony made by superimposing tonally related triads and explores many different textures in a fairly experimental style/
This track is mastered by the Soundcloud mastering service.

Chordal Mxtures 21 June 2023

A new remix of my track using a fresh set of sampled orchestral sounds and subjected to further editing of the score.
With many thanks to John Cafarella who has done the mastering for this track.

Andante-Allegro

At a gentle Walking Pace with Gathering Momentum Remix July 29

A fairly uninhibited venture into traditional tonal Melodic-Harmonic territory in which the object of the exercise was to please the senses with completely recognisable tonal stimuli, this track is a reworking of f,,,Mmm,m,mmmm a piece I composed originally in 2019. In the current revision I could not resist the impulse to make several 'daring' modulations which may place more of a burden on the listener than was my original intention
I made use in this case of the eMastered online mastering service.

Recapitulations 1 August

This piece is a remix of my piece 'Rondo'  using a wide range of samples and along with the software Noteperformer to get a very different outcome whose divergence from the original astonishes me
Rondo follows fairly closely a classical ABACACABA form, but far from traditional rondos in its harmonic and rhythmic character Rondo uses augmented triads and whole tone scales in an unusual percussive way
The two interspersed episodes (B and C in the pattern I referred to above) are more melodic although still quite dissonant These passages are repeated exactly when they recur but the A section which is easily recognisable by being carried by the strings is subject to development throughout.
This Remix has been mastered by John Cafarella

Rondo Remix 16 August 2023

I was preparing the solo horn instrument in EW-Hollywood Brass Orchestral library for use in the Dorico notation program  when this tune started to coalesce around various great sounding horn samples and this Solo came into being almost accidentally.

For Solo Horn

Solo in a contemporary style for Trombone encompassing a riddle.
(N.B.My attention has been drawn to the fact that this piece may not be playable at this tempo by a real trombonist in which case I would advise a slower tempo e.g. 105-110bpm insteadof 120bpm)

The Pilgrims Walrus for Solo Trombone: A Nominal Riddle (Revised 4 December 2023 Tempo110bpm)

A short venture into atonality after a long sojourn in the tonal sphere. Instrumentation: Harpsichord Celeste Horn Tubular Bells and oboe and Base Clarinet

Atonal Tune

A suite of four movements for Small Orchestra and Percussion compiled from revisions of earlier uploads: 1: Ostinato (March 2020)
                                               2: Adagio   (April 2022)
                                               3: Allegro   (May 2022)
                                               4: Epilogue (October 2023)
Suite for Small Orchestra and Percusson was mastered by John Cafarella

Suite For Small Orchestra And Percussion (Remix 12 November 2023)

A revision of Chordal Mixtures a piece originally uploaded in June this year.

Chordal Mixtures

Chordal Mixtures Remix 5 Nov 2023

Adagio responding to international events suggests to me the question; 'Is catharsis a valid aim in music today'
This piece was mastered by John Cafarella

Adagio for Our Times (Remix VIII 3 December 2023)

This is a variation of a sort on a musical fragment which appears in the theme music for the TV series 'All Creatures great and Small' and also in the first movement of my Tripartite Fantasy and is constructed as a free flowing set of improvisations on a simple basic idea This simple idea is treated in a linear polyphonic way resulting in a texture which moves between consonant and dissonant harmony ending on a C major chord.
This is an updated revision of the original track using different samples.
This version was mastered by John Cafarella

Dr M Sort Of A TV Theme (Revised 5 December 2023)

Modelled on a movement of the Danish composer Carl Neilsen's  4th Symphony this short piece unfolds in a series of terse dramatic interludes.
My heartfelt thanks go out to John Cafarella for his sensitive mastering of this piece
.

Allegro Moderato (After Carl Nielsen) Remixed 15  December 2023

An extended and modified version of 'Allegro Presto Assai' now For Brass Choir and Orchestra originally uploaded to Soundcloud on December 6 2023 as a for Orchestra alone piece. 
Parts of this piece have been rewritten and I provide a new ending.
This upload has been mastered by John Cafarella.

Orchestral Compositions from 2022 and 2023

ui@gmail.com