Name: Variations on Contrapunctus III for Orchestra by Robert John Brooks by Paul Maurice Roche, Composer
Duration: 5 min 31 s
Description: For my finest tutor and friend, Robert John Brooks.

Thank-you very much, dear friend. I am honored.

Strange World

Piano Improvisation based on original music by Jean-Pierre Dubois.  Thank you Jean-Pierre for allowing me to play your music in my own fashion.
Performed by Debra Buesking
Sincere thanks to @david-dunhamuser589535203  for his help in mastering my track.

Song For the Soul

Song for the Soul (Piano Improvisation based on original music by Jean-Pierre Dubois)

SUPERSONIC SKY

This track at first seems to be a straight forward instrumental rocker, but from there hovers into different modes and territories where I try to give a free and more floating exploratory feel. At times while playing I imagine the sensation of flying through the clouds at supersonic speed...

From your captain on this ship wishing you a pleasant flight! -Dan

Music written, arranged, recorded and mixed by Dan van den Berg, April 2024
Guitars, bass and drum programming by Dan van den Berg
Guitar: Charvel Pro-Mod DK24 HSH 2PT CM Mahogany Natural
Bass: Fender Performer Jazz Bass
Guitars recorded with AmpliTube
Music mixed and mastered in AURIA PRO
Cover art in Midjourney AI by Dan van den Berg

SuperSonic Sky | Dan van den Berg

Inspired by the final lines from the poem Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

"The Clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober colouring from an eye
That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality;
Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."



Intimations: A Prelude

1904, March 27, Genoa.
It is said that by studying well and taking advantage by the direction and strength of the wind, Étienne Bugnion that day, at Ponte Carrega, had scored Juventus a goal from the middle of the field.
Will it be true?
It matters little. It was the only goal in the final of the italian national football championship (senior category). The Genoa Cricket and Foot-ball Club was taking its third consecutive title, winning therefore also (and definitely) a silver cup put up for grabs by its president, George Fawcus, and to the same entitled. Very nice - you can see the remembrance photo (a bit touched up, you can tell); the gentlemen posing are footballers and are holding on to it, but to be honest there was little risk of that the cup would end up in different hands.
Of seven national trophies awarded until then, only one did not show itself in the Genoa's FC trophy museum; twelve games at all since 1899, six titles won. How many clubs in the world can boast such an average?
At its dawn in Italy, it was skimpy football, a game that few could really play.

The song was composed and performed by Manuel. I slightly arranged and mixed it, and wrote the related story.

Sulle ali del vento (with Manuel Davide Pietra) *

RESSURECT / RESOLVE

This track is about the struggle in life to overcome hardship, to being able to reinvent yourself after facing dark days and difficult times, about accepting the scars and ressurecting a new self, although partly broken. - for my dad

- Dan

Music written, arranged, recorded and mixed by Dan van den Berg, May 2024
Guitars, bass, keyboards and drum programming by Dan van den Berg
Guitar: Charvel Pro-Mod DK24 HSH 2PT CM Mahogany Natural
Bass: Fender Performer Jazz Bass
Guitars recorded with AmpliTube
Music mixed and mastered in AURIA PRO
Cover art in Midjourney AI by Dan van den Berg

Resurrect / Resolve | Dan van den Berg

Trumpet and Studio Work: Arne Hiorth
Vocal arrangement and vocals: Oddrun Eikli  @oddrun-eikli
Piano arrangement and piano: Debra Buesking

Thank you both for your incredible gifts to me!  This makes me laugh out loud.


"Summertime" is an aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, and Ira Gershwin.
The song is sung several times throughout Porgy and Bess, and in act 3 by Bess, singing to Clara's now-orphaned baby after both parents died in the storm.

Summertime | Arne Hiorth.  Oddrun Eikli. Debra Buesking

CITY NIGHTS

This is a mellow jazz infused tune for those walking late night in the streets of the city comtemplating life ...

I got inspired listening to the latest album by Nir Felder, a little nod to him. ;)

Enjoy! -Dan

Music written, arranged, recorded and mixed by Dan van den Berg, June 2024
Guitars, bass, keyboards, arranging and drum programming by Dan van den Berg
Guitar: Charvel Pro-Mod DK24 HSH 2PT CM Mahogany Natural
Bass: Fender Performer Jazz Bass
Guitars recorded with AmpliTube
Keyboards, strings and effects in Sampletank
Music mixed and mastered in AURIA PRO
Cover art in Midjourney AI by Dan van den Berg

CITY NIGHTS | Dan van den Berg

For my finest tutor and friend, Robert John Brooks.

Variations on Contrapunctus III for Orchestra by Robert John Brooks

Aisling is Irish Gaelic word meaning dream, vision, apparition

Aisling

“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.” ― Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Bittersweet, such a wonderful and often used combination. I think it to be very appropriate for this piece. It is based on the flamenco style of Alegría. The word Alegría literally means "joy." A festive flamenco style often played in the major scales. However, some who know me understand that I have a tendency towards the melancholic. So indeed this one is BitterSweet. 
I play it as a duet of two guitars, with a fusion of traditional flamenco percussion and more latin rhythms. Also I fused some Jazz and Brazilian type chords and melodies in here.

I hope you'll enjoy my bittersweet guitar instrumental and as always I appreciate your time listening, comments and likes!

- Dan

All music and guitars by Dan van den Berg, May 2nd, 2016
Recorded using AURIA for iPad and an Apogee MiC, mastered with Final Touch.
Percussion using Flamenco loops, samples from Amplitube and Sampletank.
Guitar: Joan Cashimira, modelo 145:
Solid Spruce Top
Cocobolo Back & Sides w/ blonde streak
Wooden Rosette Inlay
Ebony Fretboard
Rosewood Profile
Scale: 65.0 cm
Length al guitar: 100 cm 
Depth: 9.7 cm 
High B : 28.2 cm 
Lower B : 37.1cm 
Neck width at 12 th fret : 6.3 cm
Neck width at 0 fret: 5.4 cm

The picture I took one day from my bitter sweet drink in the sun.

Amargo Y Dulce - Alegría | Dan Van Den Berg

Piano mostly. Original compositions.
Paul Maurice Roche,
Leamington Spa, United Kingdom.

My favourite pianist is Murray Perahia.

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