Mussorgski: Trepak

I Cameristi del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Giorgio Mezzanotte Nehamas

Opera di Firenze, 29.10.2014, live.

Richard Strauss, Metamorphosen, studio per 23 archi soli

The feeling of loss and recovery during a relationship breakdown - everything seemed like a sweet dream...

Composer and Pianist: Shirley Ly
Violinist: Anya Birchall

© SHIRLEY LY

Sweet Reverie

Sweet Reverie | Violin and Piano Duet

Swallows swoop in the sunset. We see their strong, deep wingbeats at a distance. A storm amounts. Clouds are thick and swallows lose their senses of direction in the darkening skies. Raindrops batter their wings. 

The clouds disperse and the swallows emerge slowly and cautiously to find their way back to their warm clay nests.

Composer and Pianist: Shirley Ly
Violinist: Anya Birchall

© SHIRLEY LY

Swallows Silhouette

Swallows Silhouette | Violin and Piano Duet

The Lesson. Fantasy for symphonic orchestra based on the Eugène Ionesco's drama. 
Symphony Orchestra of the Theatre-College "Galina Vishnevskaya"
Conductor - Airat Kashaev
Урок. Фантазия для симфонического оркестра
по мотивам драмы Эжена Ионеско.
Симфонический оркестр колледжа-театра "Галина Вишневская"
Дирижёр - Айрат Кашаев

The Lesson. Fantasy for symphonic orchestra

Chopin: Valse Brillante Op. 34 No. 2 in A Minor

Melting snow dampens the earth beneath, sunlight becomes clearer and clouds become lighter against the bluing sky. Anticipating renewal and revitalisation of life in all forms.

Composer and Pianist: Shirley Ly
Violinist: Anya Birchall
Cellist: Patrick Tapio Johnson

© SHIRLEY LY

Spring Fantasy | Violin, Cello and Piano Trio

This is a piano arrangement of "Bastian's Happy Flight" ("Flug auf dem Glücksdrachen") from the "The NeverEnding Story" ("Die Unendliche Geschichte"). 

When I was in school, there was an outstanding musician, who used to play this on the piano. His name was Andrés Atala-Quezada (my, what a name...)  When I asked him to write down, what he was playing, he said he wouldn't for no reason. In 2005 I remembered  him and this fantastic piece by Klaus Doldinger. So I sat down and wrote my own version heavily influenced by what I could recall of his playing at that time.

"Bastian's Happy Flight" (1979 Klaus Doldinger, 2005, rev 2013) - Piano

Song from the Musical "Nix"
Music : M.Malavasi
Lyrics: K.Fredrics

Defend Us

Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde, trascr. Schönberg/Riehn

Benedetta Mazzucato, mezzosoprano - André Post, tenore - 
Camerata RCO (Musicisti di Royal Concertgebouworchestra) - Giorgio Mezzanotte Nehamas, direttore

Mahler, Das Lied Von Der Erde (12.11.2012).WAV

Hello fellow music addicts!

I love to listen to every kind of good music. Good music for me should be unique in its rhythm, harmonies, sounds or interpretation. Good music should captivate the listener from the first note on and never let him go until the last.

I write my own music in a mostly contemporary classical style, which is inspired by the great composers from the past as well as from the 20th century (like Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Strawinsky, Bartók, Strauss, Eisler and many more).

I'm looking for artists, who want to interpret my music. I send sheet music for free to anybody in the world, who is interested in performing my music live on stage, in studio, in your music class or anywhere. The only condition I have is, that you record it in any possible way, so I can hear your interpretation.

I hope my music captivates you as it captivates me.

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There's a nice youtube tutorial on orchestration approach by Thomas Goss, I highly recommend to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9D3C645B0B7C75D8

For me it makes perfect sense, what Thomas says.

"Bastian's Happy Flight" (1979 Klaus Doldinger, 2005, rev 2013) - Piano

Sebastian Wurm | Composer