Mozart Piano Concerto No. 13 K. 415 I. Allegro

"A la recherche du temps perdu" No. 1 - " Du côte de chez Swann" - performed by pianist Ellen Cunningham Weaver, USA, on a Schimmel Grand Piano (https://soundcloud.com/ellen-w-1).

"Time" is the main theme of "A la recherche du temps perdu", inspired by the amazing book "In search of the lost time" by Marcel Proust. We live in "fast times", we are "stressed", and we all are longing for the "temps perdu", when life was slower, more down tempo. So the pieces in this series, called after the chapter titles of Proust´s book, are very slow, very accentuated, very expressive. Both listeners and pianists should take their time, to play and listen, as a short break from "normal times"...

Ellen recorded all 7 pieces of the series " A la recherche du temps perdu" and 4 pieces of the new "Adveniat" series. Both series are very contemplative, and Ellen´s masterful interpretations accentuate this character so well. We are sure you will enjoy our new "pure piano" Album!

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The Album is available on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon MP3, Spotify and other platforms:
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It is also part of this 5-hour-playlist with all my albums on Spotify:
https://play.spotify.com/user/1155850710/playlist/754hMzwRzbXaVixnFYdcO1

Have a look at the beautiful physical CD, availalble on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Stephan-Beneking-recherche-temps-perdu/dp/B00IKVT6YW

Scores/sheet music of "A la recherche du temps perdu" can be downloaded for free on http://www.beneking.com/temps
The "Adveniat" scores will be published soon.

Picture: Gaby Ehringshausen, Berlin
I met Gaby by coincidence on a christmas market in Berlin and was instantly excited about her beautiful photographs of run-down houses with old pianos, that fit so perfectly to my music. Thankfully I can use these pictures for my new albums.

Album on iTunes

A la recherche du temps perdu No. 1 - played by Ellen Cunningham Weaver - New Album on iTunes

wonderful piece full of passion composed by Frederic Chopin, played on Roland RD 800

Frederic Chopin Polonaise As Dur opus 53 - Heroique

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

Set 24 of my Songs without Words was going to be the final one, but I am now on set 39...
The choice of Barcarolle as the first duet piece owes something to Rachmaninov's op.10 (which I have orchestrated). The final return of the main melody at half speed with a filigree high register countermelody, yields to a final mystery chord

SWW24.1

Victoria Bragin - F. Chopin: Polonaise E flat minor op. 26 no. 2

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European Melodies

Glanes de Woronince: Complainte (Dumka)

Liszt - Glanes de Woronince – Complainte (Dumka) (Live)

Facet 5

Chopin's G minor Ballade is one of those pieces that is played a great deal and often rather mangled by exaggerated rubato and mannered interpretation. I love to reveal the unvarnished truth about music, to reveal its natural patterns and structure. For me, allowing the rhythm and melodic lines to flow with natural flexibility only adds to the extraordinary cathartic beauty of Chopin's refined yet emotional and virtuoso composition.

You can also follow me on Spotify at spoti.fi/2MRR1lV and stream the albums I have released there.

Ballade in G minor op. 23 - Chopin

Aufgenommen mit einem Roland RD-170

Recorded with stage piano Roland RD-170

Chopin Nocturne Es Dur Opus 9 No 2

gespielt auf Roland RD-170 
recorded with Roland RD-170 stage piano

Chopin Präludium Des Dur Opus 28 Nr 15

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

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

Michael Hauber