15. Journey (Wind Of Italia)

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Ysaye - Sonata No 3 for solo violin 'Ballade'
Tchaikovsky - Melody Op. 42

Ysaye - Sonata No 3 for solo violin 'Ballade'

Rhapsody In Blue

Salut D'amour

Erlkönig Translation 
Source: Wikipedia

Who rides, so late, through night and wind?
It is the father with his child.
He has the boy well in his arm
He holds him safely, he keeps him warm.

"My son, why do you hide your face in fear?"
"Father, do you not see the Elf-king?
The Elf-king with crown and cape?"
"My son, it's a streak of fog."

"You dear child, come, go with me!
Beautiful games I'll play with you;
Many colorful flowers are on the beach,
My mother has many a golden robe."

"My father, my father, do you not hear
What the Elf-king quietly promises me?"
"Be calm, stay calm, my child;
Through dry leaves the wind is sighing."

"Do you, fine boy, want to go with me?
My daughters shall wait on you finely;
My daughters lead the nightly dance,
And rock and dance and sing to bring you in."

"My father, my father, don't you see there
The Elf-king's daughters in the gloomy place?"
"My son, my son, I see it clearly:
There shimmers the old willows so grey."

"I love you, your beautiful form entices me;
And if you're not willing, then I will use force."
"My father, my father, he's touching me now!
The Elf-king has done me harm!"

This horrifies the father; he swiftly rides on,
He holds the moaning child in his arms,
Reaches the farm with great difficulty;
In his arms, the child was dead.

Tenor- Joe Mikolaj
Marquand Chapel, Yale University

Erlkönig- D328 - Franz Schubert

One Summer's Day - Joe Hisaishi - Spirited Away

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One Summer's Day

The Girl Who Fell From the Sky - Joe Hisaishi - Castle in the Sky

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The Girl Who Fell From The Sky

The Russian Souvenir

Waltz of The Flowers

To me this piece will always be about the death of youth...either literal or symbolic. It's not a funeral march, but a languid, bittersweet remembrance. 

When I was 15 years old, my Mother died suddenly of a heart attack. She was only 51. In that moment, both literal and figurative collided, my youth ended, and my mother died far too young...

Many years later, when Lindsey and I married, I played this arrangement with a trombone choir at our wedding. This was not only a remembrance of my mother but Lindsey's as well. Her mother died far too young at the age of 50 as well. Sad that we share this difficult past, but we both know they left their marks on our lives and our futures.

This overdub recording is in their memory.

Ravel Pavane for a Dead Princess

I produced this track using midi and EW Gold Pianos in order to perfection the performance as I imagine it.

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