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Unsettled Minds is a sweeping collection of orchestral adaptations that transform Beethoven’s Appassionata themes and beyond into symphonic meditations for restless souls. Each movement embraces turbulence and tenderness: brooding strings hover on the edge of silence, woodwinds whisper with searching fragility, and brass resound with fateful grandeur. Expanding Beethoven’s architecture into Rachmaninoff-like romantic musings of lush textures and cinematic dramas that capture the beauty and unease of an unsettled mind — where moments of stillness are broken by storms of emotion, and melodies carry both torment and transcendence. 

Performed in the imagined voice of Europe’s greatest orchestras, this album is an invitation into a dream state where longing, unrest, and fragile nobility collide.

12. Ponderings

Peace In My Heart is a classical instrumental piece that captures the uplifting freedom of galloping through the English countryside. With sweeping melodies and cinematic emotion, it reflects the pure joy of letting go—wind rushing past, the rhythm of hooves in harmony with the soul, and the liberating sense of riding without a care in the world. This track is about serenity, strength, and the timeless connection between rider, horse, and open land.

Peace In My Heart

Love

Lamento della ninfa, SV 163: Amor, amor

Vivaldi: Stabat Mater, Nisi Dominus, Longe mala & O qui coeli terraeque serenitas

Nisi Dominus in G Minor, RV 608: IV. Cum dederit

Mari

Richter: Dona Nobis Pacem 2

"My Heart's in the Highlands" (2000) by Arvo Pärt (*1935)
edited and arranged by Other People's Energy

Poem ‘My Heart's in the Highlands’ by Robert Burns (1759–1796)

My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer –
A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe;
My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go.

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.

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.

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.

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Electronics / Mixing and Producing - Skyler Hill
Vocals / Electronics / Editing and Producing - Christopher Walker
Reading - Charles, Prince of Wales

Recorded at our homes, together and apart • Denton / Boston
Vocals engineered and recorded by Justin Lemons, Infinite Ohm Recording • Denton
Mastered by Joseph Branciforte, Greyfade Studio • Bushwick
Album Artwork by Isabel Crespo Pardo • Boston

Other People's Songs

My Heart's in the Highlands

My Heart's in the Highlands (Arvo Pärt)

Zbigniew Preisner - Lacrimosa

Richter: Dona Nobis Pacem 2

Mari Samuelsen

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