10 romantic classics played on a Steinway B-211 Piano
recorded in June 2015

Romantic Classics - Michael Hauber - Steinway B-211

Brodmann PE-187 grand piano. AKGPerception mics. Pro Tools recording.

Chopin Mazurka Fm op63no2

This is my piano arrangement of Astor Piazzolla "Oblivion" | Live at the Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music (April 29, 2011)

A. Piazzolla Oblivion / Arr. Igor Lipinski

one from 10 piano classics I played on a Steinway B-211 piano
recorded in June 2015

Where Do I Begin - Love Story -  Francis Lai        Steinway B-211 piano

second of 10 romantic classics 
played on a Steinway B-211 piano
recorded in June 2015

Smile - Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin     Steinway B-211

popular piece composed by James Last
played on a Steinway B-211 piano


Happy Heart  - James Last -   Steinway B-211

one popular piece from the serie "romantic classics"
played on Steinway B-211 piano
recorded in June 2015

Speak Softly Love - Der Pate -  Nino Rota

one famous valse composed by P. I. Tschaikowsky
from my serie "romantic piano II"
played on a Steinway B-211 piano

Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky - Valse sentimentale Opus 51 Nr 6  Steinway B-211 piano

one popular track of the film "Drei Nüsse für Aschenbrödel"
created by Karel Svoboda
piece of my serie "romantic classics" recorded in June 2015
played on a Steinway B-211 piano

Drei Nüsse für Aschenbrödel -  Karel Svoboda  Steinway B-211 piano

Bach French Suite VI Sarabande

Sonata 46 for violin and classical guitar

Sandra Haniszewska - Violin
Tomasz Kandulski - Classical Guitar

I was attending music school as an undergraduate in 1998 at the University of Texas at Austin. At the time, Matthew Gould (of Duo 46) was attending as a Doctoral student in guitar and living in Austin with his partner, violinist Beth Schneider. They had started Duo 46 maybe a few years before this. I was hanging out with them a lot in those days - just going over to their apartment or whatever. One day, Matt said to me, "Hey man, why don't you write us a piece?", and I said, "Umm.. ok."

At this point, I don't think they expected much. They hadn't had that many pieces written for them yet, and I was just starting as a composer, only in my second year of school. I decided I wanted to write something that would really show off what they could do technically and musically, and that would leave audiences breathless.

Not knowing how to begin, I lifted a line from a piece that I had just written - a solo flute piece titled "The Five Rings of Miyamoto Musashi". That became the opening line of the piece. Then, inspired by the one movement sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti, I wrote the piece based on that line. The piece is full of things that I was just discovering and becoming influenced by at the time: baroque sonatas, renaissance lute music (hence the "lute" tuning of the guitar), the tangos of Piazzolla as well as the ever-present rock and heavy metal that has always been part of my music. Since Duo 46 premiered the piece in 1999, Sonata 46 has become one of my most frequently and widely performed pieces.

Notes

Sonata 46 (Haniszewska-Kandulski Duo)

Facet 5

A set of 11 original piano nocturnes by pianist composer, Phil Best. 

Nocturnes are dark, melancholic virtual love songs full of pathos and longing. Each one feels like an intimate soliloquy about unrequited love, heartbreak and desire.

Inspired by Chopin's masterpieces of this genre, Phil explores a more contemporary approach, mixing in jazz, blues, pop and filmic elements.

Nocturnes

Come Back To Me

Now on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4AF0aitUscPlkAPmS8t6m7?si=6UEkbRYAQgWPvyc6t64-Zg

Nostalgia

Johannes Brahms - Piano Quartet No.1, Op. 25, Mvt. IV: Rondo alla Zingarese

Where You Are

music is a big piece of live - the only speech going to heart...
I like romantic music

Happy Heart - James Last - Steinway B-211

Michael Hauber

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