Recreation-by-ear of 'Brasiliana', a 'light orchestral' composition by Cor Lemaire from the late 1950's or early 1960's, using Apple Logic and Spitfire Audio's BBCSO Core orchestral library.

I created this as a tribute to Cor Lemaire, to become more familiar with the BBCSO library and to get a feeling for how the orchestration of the original was achieved.

The track starts with the tuning sounds from the original audio (taken from a television registration) and fades into the recreated version a few seconds later. After the music ends the original ambient studio sound fades back in for a few seconds.

The original video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45lHFbxV38U&t=1543s

Brasiliana  (Cor Lemaire)

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I'd love to identify this piece of music that features prominently in the VPRO documentary "Twintiger & Dertiger jaren" from the 1970's (by Hans Keller et al. It has resisted all identification attempts until now.

Unknown music from 1970's VPRO documentary "Twintiger & Dertiger jaren"

Recreation of a classic BBC Dance Orchestra arrangement, done in Logic Pro using stock instruments and Spitfire Audio's BBCSO, Musio & Project Sam's Swing! instrument libraries. Original composer: Robert Schumann; arrangement by Henry Hall for the BBC dance orchestra

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Instrumental version of this song, sung by Donald Jones in the tv series "Hommeles".

Ik zou je het liefste in een doosje willen doen (Cor Lemaire)

Tune for a fictional Astid-Lindgren-ish tv series about a boy (Elianto) with his super-seagull ("Semio") who deal with the baddies in their town

Elianto och hans Semio

Recreation of Kurt Drabek’s “Cuba Baion”, a song found by youtuber Techmoan on an old Tefifon cartridge (see youtu.be/nBNTAmLRmUg and here: youtu.be/9tTURrAWVYE where the original can he heard)
The song seems to intrigue some people. Someone made a midi version when asked so by Techmoan (youtu.be/XRl453Tfybg), but since that was purely synthesised I thought I could do better than that ... so here goes.

I made this on my laptop using Apple Logic and the included sample libraries, except for the strings. They're from the free BBC Symphony Orchestra “Discover” version running in Spitfire Audio (the high trill excluded, that’s Logic’s own Strings).

Cuba Baion

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Intro tune for fiction Astrid-Lindgren-ish tv series "Elianto och hans Semio" about a boy with a seagull who go after the crooks in their town :) (something like Pippi Longstockings)

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