Urgency

A Warrior's Quest

This is a new version of a piece that has had a long histroy and means a great deal to me too.  It is taken from a much longer orchestrated piece called Flight which is posted.  If any of my pieces are autobiographic Flight is that piece and, if it is about me, it is the journey of me growing up and coming to America only to discover that we can not run-away from our past.  The adagio section (which is just orchestrated for string orchestra in this version) represents the mourning of the untimely loss of my beautiful mum.  It occurred just as my first child had been born in the States.  I dedicate this work to her.

I would also like to share Mariza Costa-Cabral comment at 6:09 as I think she has described it the best "Beautiful. It seems to be a person overwhelmed with emotion, as when they lose one of their most beloved and important persons in life. Painful and poignant. Of course, it is impossible to represent this kind of pain without beauty, because the pain is all about the beauty and the precious value of what is lost. And it is in fact a piece filled with beauty."

Thank you again Mariza so much.  Your comment goes beyond music.

As always, I hope you enjoy.

P.S. Please let me know if anyone is interested in performing this work, the score is available.

Farewell Revisited - An Adagio for Strings (Score available)

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Is this Real or is this a Dream?
May 2020
Duration: 2:50
"...is this real, or is this a dream, or maybe a bit of both? "  Heidi Schnicker 1976
Artwork: John-Marc Ventimiglia
For strings, woodwinds, harp, vibraphone, celeste, virtual instruments and percussion

Is this  Real or is this a Dream?

Tom Bombadil

Nature's Way

Latitudes

This track uses mostly sounds from Spitfire Audio's 'Olafur Arnalds Stratus' library plus a few taken from Olafur's other Spitfire libraries.

Tumble

The Guiltless (with Tim Watt)

Marco Lucchi : organ

5 novembre 2020

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Is this a holy thing to see,
In a rich and fruitful land,
Babes reducd to misery,
Fed with cold and usurous hand?

Is that trembling cry a song?
Can it be a song of joy?
And so many children poor?
It is a land of poverty!

And their sun does never shine.
And their fields are bleak & bare.
And their ways are fill'd with thorns.
It is eternal winter there.

For where-e'er the sun does shine,
And where-e'er the rain does fall:
Babe can never hunger there,
Nor poverty the mind appall. 

William Blake

organ verses n°3

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Nature's Way

Kailesh Reitmans