Classical Music

Thanks to Debussy's birthday this week, and the enchanting Google Doodle honoring him, a dear old friend wrote me a sweet note about listening to my years-old recording of "Claire de Lune." I'd completely lost track of it and thought it was gone forever, so I'm very happy to able to send this little reclaimed orphan rippling out into the World Wide Web...

Bon anniversaire, Debussy! Your pieces are mesmerizing. They feel foreign and familiar all at once.

Debussy's Claire de Lune

Brahms Intermezzo, Op. 188, No. 2 (Live recording, Graduate Recital)

Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" is one of the most powerfull pieces in the history of Classics. 

Vivaldi - The Four Seasons: Autumn

An der schönen blauen Donau by Rosy

A cello quartet arrangement of the second movement from J S Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068.
Cello arranged and performed by Deryn Cullen
Mix and mastering by @dan-cullen

J S Bach - Air on the G - String

Robert Schumann - Träumerei (dreaming)

"Libiamo ne' lieti calici" da La Traviata di Giuseppe Verdi diretta da Carlos Kleiber con l'Orchestra e il Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Cecilia Gasdia, Peter Dvorský, Giorgio Zancanaro, il 20 dicembre 1984.

"Libiamo ne' lieti calici" da La Traviata - di Giuseppe Verdi

Swan Lake - Tchaikovsky

QUARTETTO d'ARCHI - The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, F. Handel

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a. III. Waltz of the Flowers

Arabesque - 10 dec 2016

Recording by Bert De Herdt

In A Persian Market – A. Ketèlbey

Giuseppe Verdi - Nabucco - Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Akt III 1842

Johann Sebastian Bach - Suite №1. Prelude (Six suite

Spring from The Four Seasons - Vivaldi

The Da Capo String Quartet, composed of Drexel University musicians

Pachelbel Canon in D - Violin, Viola, Cello

Antonio Vivaldi - Winter (Full) - The Four Seasons

Les Miserables 2012 - Do You Hear the People Sing

After being inspired by Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, I penned a number of themes that I felt particularly resonated with how I experienced the novel. I then vowed to myself that should a movie adaption come about, I would compose the score.
Now it appears that a film of The Book Thief is forthcoming, and as such I feel it necessary to get my work out there. This piece is intended to be the main theme, played mostly whenever Liesel's obsession with books is portrayed, and also at other key moments.

The Book Thief (Piano Version)

As promised, this is my studio version of one of the phenomenons from Les Mis! I'm not Fantine or Anne Hathaway but I tried to fit into her shoes :) 

Classical Music

Minh Dat Ha