Vibes

Soundtrack of the 1993 film The Piano, composed by Michael Nyman.

Live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?ny8-EtKWiKE

This theme is reprised several times, called The Heart Asks Pleasure First/The Promise/The Sacrifice. It is based on a traditional Scottish tune titled "Gloomy Winter's Noo Awa".

The instrument is a Clavia Nord Stage 2, using a sampled Yamaha C7 grand piano, and one single note of sampled strings.

Note: replaced with a better take on June 3, 2014

Video

Michael Nyman - Theme from The Piano

THE PIANO - The Composers Cut Series - Volume III

Music composed and performed by Michael Nyman

Michael Nyman's score for Jane Campion's 1993 film The Piano is one of the most successful film soundtracks of all time. The film itself won the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival in 1993 and went on to win several Oscars at the 1994 Academy Awards. Holly Hunter's role as Ada the film's central role was that of an elective mute who chose to communicate via her playing. If having the music feature so prominently in a film was unusual, for the music to additionally convey the dialogue of the main character is unique. The soundtrack of the film went on to become a multi million seller. Perhaps surprisingly for music with such strong ties to its original source many of the pieces from The Piano were subsequently used in a variety of other settings in film, television and advertising making it some of the most performed/frequently heard orchestral music of the last twenty years.

The concert suite for The Piano as performed by The Michael Nyman Band also became a staple of the band's concert repertoire and has been performed all over the world with the composer taking the roles of pianist and conductor. It is this expanded form of the soundtrack that Nyman chose to record as his own definitive edition in Abbey Road studios in April 2005. The piano pieces again form a dialogue, though here the dialogue is purely musical between pianist and orchestra rather having the piano pieces act as speech substitute as they did in the film. The resulting album is a wonderful example of film music transformed to a distinctive stand alone concert work.

"The purpose of the Composer's Cut series is to present music from my soundtracks in a state of continuous evolution. As I transferred particular cues from film to concert hall both musical structures changed and performance styles developed, enabling the music, perhaps, to realise its true potential. So these recordings represent the Michael Nyman Band's state-of-performance as of spring 2005." – MN August 2005


The Heart Asks Pleasure First

November

Istvan Sky And Estas Tonne -The Song Of The  Butterfly [Hungary 2014]

Estas Tonne - Bohemian Skies

Estas Tonne - Paris Heart

your home

Estas Tonne   Cosmic Fairytale

#TheBiberProject is a live performance in which the interpretation and recreation of the Baroque repertoire merge with sonic experimentation and interaction. The musical studio is a broad-spectrum cognitive pathway that through interpretations, new readings, audio manipulations, original and recomposed tracks, investigates the expressive canons of the seventeenth century.
This recomposed is the final act of the performance.

Handel' Sarabande - Recomposed

Winter Stories

All my joy, all my pain

All My Joy All My Pain

Piano cover of Primavera + Fly (BO Intouchables) by Ludovico Einaudi. Performed by sebastien ride (srmusic).

Primavera + Fly (Ludovico Einaudi) - Variations by srmusic

Divine.

This was made under a red moon.

special thanks to:

Amir ranjbar for helping me in early composing, check out his channel:
https://soundcloud.com/amir-ranjbar-917190657

photography art: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg_-l9pB27p/?taken-by=rkhs_

Divine

Addio is a piece about letting go....

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Dirk Maassen - Addio [Final Master] -  (Project Ascolta !)

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A quick iPhone recording of one of my favorite Philip Glass compositions. Sorry for the mistakes!

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The Theory of Everything (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

A Model of the Universe

Michael Nyman's Official Soundcloud channel

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