Beautiful. Hopefully this is the beginning of more collaborations.

Folk and Trad of the Celts and others

The Cinematic Orchestra - Lilac Wine

Recorded at Soup Studio, London
Sound engineers : Giles Barrett and Simon Trought
Introduction arranged by Marianne Schofield

From the New Country/Star of the County Down

Recorded at Soup Studio, London
Sound engineers : Giles Barrett, Simon Trought and Arie van del Poel
Arrangement : Maya Amin-Smith 

Green Groves of Erin / Flowers of Redhill

This is a track from Bill's recent release on his Live Download Series 019 featuring Bill Frisell on guitar, Viktor Krauss on bass and Jim Keltner on drums.  http://www.billfrisell.com/downloads written by Hank Williams Sr.

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

Recorded in April 2005 at Abbey Road Studios, this album is the definitive compilation of the music from the Nyman/Greenaway collaboration.

Miranda is taken from 'Nyman/Greenaway Revisited'...a collection of the most popular music from the five soundtracks provided by the composer for Peter Greenaway's feature films from 1982 – 1991. Music from The Draughtsman's Contract, A Zed and Two Noughts, Drowning By Numbers, The Cook The Thief His Wife And Her Lover, & Prospero's Books is included.

Greenaway & Nyman had a very different relationship from that of most directors/composers, with Greenaway giving Nyman immense scope for the music. Nyman responded in kind with some of the best film music of the last quarter century. The working methods even varied from film to film. While the score of Zed and Two Noughts was composed without the composer even having seen a single frame of the film, the climactic scene of The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover was quite deliberately choreographed to the pre-existing piece Memorial. The music for these films became widely known & hugely influential on a succeeding generation of composers and directors.

One of Nyman's most recently completed film scores (for The Libertine) returns the composer to a film with a 17th century setting, with director Laurence Dunmore claiming it was the memory of hearing the music to A Zed and Two Noughts many years ago that led him to commissioning Nyman for this film, while Michael Winterbottom (a director who has also worked extensively with Nyman), used music from The Draughtsman's Contract for his newest film A Cock and Bull Story. This collection of music has also become immensely well known to a wide public audience. Among the most frequently performed contemporary music, whether on classical radio stations, or through use in film, TV programming or advertising use, these pieces are as familiar to a mainstream audience as many contemporary pop and rock songs.


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Miranda (Nyman Band Version)

The Newstead Trio, a marvelous piano trio with whom I have had a working relationship since the early 00s approached me to compose something for them in honor of the opening year of the new Philip Johnson-designed Pennsylvania Academy of Music Hall in Lancaster, PA. "Ode to Piazzolla" is the 3rd movement of my "Musescapes"

Ode to Piazzolla  wav FIN

From Desert Songs (EP) out on January 15th 2016, via Beating Drum in Europe and via Six Degrees in America.

Vinyl 12' http://shop.beatingdrumrecords.com/
iTunes http://smarturl.it/desert_songs

Between takes whilst recording the EP Desert Songs, the two songwriters Dawn Landes and Piers Faccini found inspiration for the songs they were writing together by walking in the stark and beautiful mountain scenery around Piers’s studio in the Cevennes region of the south of France. Chatting as they walked, they swopped tales of desert mystics and seekers that would inspire them to write the songs for their collaborative EP. Dawn and Piers wove the arrangements together using the rich collection of instruments in Piers’s studio, a Malian Kora, a 1930’s National resonator guitar, West African percussion and an Indian dulcimer and tampura. 

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http://www.dawnlandes.com
http://facebook.com/dawnlandes
http://www.piersfaccini.com
http://facebook.com/PiersFacciniMusic

iTunes

Dawn Landes & Piers Faccini - Heaven's Gate (From Desert Songs)

First-generation American Primitive guitarist Richard Osborn studied and performed with Robbie Basho in the 60's. After 45 years, Osborn finally recorded, appearing on Tompkins Square's 'Beyond Berkeley Guitar' comp in 2010. 'Endless' is his first widely available solo guitar album. 

"[Osborn has] an unhurried, quiet spirit of adventure, a love of ringing strings and slowly revelatory meditations on the natural world." 
-Acoustic Guitar Magazine

"He's a student of mine and he's better technically than me or Fahey." 
- Robbie Basho

Richard Osborn
Endless
Available Jan 27, 2017 LP (TSQ5340) CD (TSQ5333) Digital
Tompkins Square is distributed by INgrooves and Revolver in the US
Cargo UK for Europe

Endless

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In A Monastery Garden by Richard Osborn

You can learn to play this piece. FREE scores and parts, among other materials, are available online: kronosquartet.org/fifty-for-the-future

Composed by Rhiannon Giddens on banjo; Arranged for string quartet by Jacob Garchik
© 2016 Kronos Arts Publishing
℗ 2016 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet
Recorded March 2017 at 25th Street Recording, Oakland, CA
Engineered and mixed by Laura Dean
Assistant Engineers: Gabriel Shepard, Peter Labberton, Ryan Ellery
Production Assistant: Reshena Liao
Mixed at Women’s Audio Mission, San Francisco, CA
Assistant Mixing Engineers: Molly Bolten, Adria Otte, EA Allen, Maira Clancy

At the Purchaser's Option with variations

Rhiannon Giddens - At the Purchaser's Option with variations

You can learn to play this piece. FREE scores and parts, among other materials, are available online: kronosquartet.org/fifty-for-the-future

Composed by Philip Glass
© 2017 Kronos Arts Publishing
℗ 2018 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet and Reshena Liao
Recorded March 2018 at 25th Street Recording, Oakland, CA
Engineered and mixed by Zach Miley
Assistant engineer: Gabriel Shepard
Mixed by Zach Miley and David Harrington at Decibelle Recording, San Francisco, CA

Quartet Satz

Philip Glass - Quartet Satz

Dustin O'Halloran - An Ending, A Beginning

Cover #24 from the series "Songs I Love" by Piers Faccini

The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s musical arrangement of the poem ”My Heart's in the Highlands" by Scottish poet Robert Burns for countertenor, organ and bagpipes is without doubt, one of the most haunting songs I’ve ever heard. I was utterly spellbound the first time I heard the version recorded by the organist Stephen Layton and countertenor David James in 2003. Even without the music, the poem with its vivid picture of the Scottish highlands is majestic enough but with Pärt’s masterful composition, it becomes the song of a universal longing to return home and seems to speak to all of us, whether we come from the mountain, the desert or the sea. I’ve recently been collaborating with guitarist and oud player Gregory Dargent and chatting one day about what we could play together, we realised we were both unconditional Arvo Pärt fans. Being mostly for choir or orchestra, there’s not much of Pärt’s music that could work with just a voice and guitar but ”My Heart's in the Highlands" seemed a perfect piece to try and paint as if it were a timeless, traditional folk song. 

Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,
The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.
2: 
Farewell to the mountains, high-cover'd with snow,
Farewell to the straths and green valleys below;
Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods,
Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.
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'Songs I Love vol.1' still available on:
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/songsilove1
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/1jbGOfl
Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/album/8050372
Google Play: http://bit.ly/songsiloveplay
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Piers Faccini : https://www.facebook.com/PiersFacciniMusic
Beating Drum : http://www.beatingdrumrecords.com

SONGS I LOVE #24

Piers Faccini - My Heart Is In The Highlands ft. Gregory Dargent (Songs I Love #24)

Joe Jackson and Rickie Lee Jones - For No One

Metamorphosis 2 by Philip Glass
arranged using UVI Ircam Prepared Piano

Philip Glass - Metamorphosis 2

Jigs, Jives & Jacobites

Ye Jacobites by Name (Live)

Kronos Quartet is David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin), Hank Dutt (viola), and Sunny Yang (cello).

http://kronosquartet.org/

Here you will find our recordings of new work commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire. Released over five years beginning in 2016, this collection of 50 compositions by 25 men and 25 women from around the world will be devoted to the contemporary approaches to the string quartet and designed expressly for the training of students and emerging professionals. Scores and parts, audio recordings, composer interviews, and many more resources are available for free on our website.

Founded over forty years ago, we are a San Francisco-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. For more recordings, please visit http://www.nonesuch.com/artists/kronos-quartet or http://kronosquartet.org/recordings Thank you!

Rhiannon Giddens - At the Purchaser's Option with variations

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