Doch gerade die 💐 Blue 💜 Notes .....🎼

Listening again to one of my favorite pieces.

Very intense performance & composition!🎶🎹👌

you should enter your compositions in the Fidelio online competition in Spain, if you are into competitions. cheers.

Vocal: @oddrun-eikli
Uilleann Pipes, Whistle and Accordion : Phil Dale @philleann
Piano: Debra Buesking
Mixed and Mastered by Phil Dale
Thank you Oddrun and Phil for the pleasure of making music together.  

Down by the Salley Gardens, a tale of regret -- and perhaps unrequited love -- written by W.B. Yeats, has become one of the most beloved Irish songs of all time.

Down by the Sally Gardens, my love and I did meet.
She crossed the Sally Gardens, with little snow-white feet.
She bid me to take life easy, as the leaves grow on the tree,
But I was young and foolish, and with her I did not agree.

In a field down by the river, my love and I did stand
And upon my leaning shoulder, she laid her snow-white hand.
She bid me to take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs,
But I was young and foolish, and now I am full of tears.

Down by the Sally Gardens, my love and I did meet.
She crossed the Sally Gardens with little snow-white feet.
She bid me to take life easy, as the leaves blow on the tree,
But I was young and foolish, and with her I did not agree.

Down by the Salley Gardens. Oddrun Eikli. Philleann. Debra Buesking

This is my humble first take of Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov's famous "Flight of the Bumble Bee" (transcribed by Sergei Rachmaninoff). 

It was played by me on May the 2nd, 2023 with Yamaha Montage 8 synthesizer ("CFX Concert" sound). It was recorded into my DAW in one take as an audio wav file without any midi recording, and hence no midi or other corrections were made. I only added some reverb. I've been practicing this for weeks and I wanted to get this out of my hands so to speak and this is what I ended up with. My apologies for the numerous mistakes.. but nobody ever taught me how to do this and this is the result so far.. It may be that this is the best I can do but I have to say that I still am a little bit proud of myself because lately I had started to think that I will never be able to make even a mediocre recording of this piece!

I am not sure what the exact tempo here was. The sheet has a designated tempo of 144-152 but many real pianists including Horowitz, Lang Lang and David Helfgott of course have played it much faster. I also almost lost the rhythm at some point but I think I got it back after a while..

Some day I will maybe try to make a better recording with fewer mistakes. But since it took me maybe about 17-20 years or more with this piece to get to this point (although I had maybe a 10 years break in the middle) I can make no promises.. 

I first started playing Rachmaninoff and Chopin seriously after I saw the movie "Shine" many years ago and after that I tried to learn as many of the songs as possible. There was some great piano playing in the movie and the main character in the movie played the Bumble Bee in one scene (a recording which according to my knowledge was played by Mr. David Helfgott himself). After seeing that I wanted to learn the piece myself. I guess the line of thinking I had at the time was that "If they can do it, I can do it". And I think here is an important lesson for all the youngsters out there: You can do anything. Never give up! Although a little bit of proper guidance and teaching probably won't do you any harm...

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Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumble Bee. Transcribed by S. Rachmaninoff

Moonlight is just a name and will cover many kind of moods when viewing moonlight. The mood of this track is a bit tranquil and relaxing.

Moonlight

You feel that your life is like a song... you want to finish it, but sometimes the last words get stuck in your throat...
I invite you to listen to my piano improvisation "Unfinished Song".
Watch the videoversion on my Youtube channel:
https://youtu.be/niiQL9EEjLQ
The sheet music of some of my compositions can be downloaded from my website https://pianoimprovictor.com/ Some new works are available on  https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/victor-birkan-sheet-music/3028943?isPLP=1
Find all my music here: https://linktr.ee/victorbirkan

Unfinished Song - Improvised Piano Piece

This one is about a butterfly for a girl not available, as it turned out. Would want that feeling to stay, but the butterfly has gotta go. Its a busy one though; already had been going up and down starting to make the heart into a bloody home. And its a hard one to catch! There is that feeling of melancholy again. Just let go! And the butterfly leaves... 

It was good fun composing and dramatizing this piece. Especially that butterfly, I'm sure you can hear it. Been chasing it for hours :) The techiques on one part of it, I just started doing improvising once and was used in Arabesque too, but in phygian mode. In this piece its worked out more and it consists of both chords, an arpeggio and a glissando with the left pinky on black keys.

Departure of a Butterfly (Op.8 No.7)

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Etude for piano solo in a "blue" style.

Score; https://youtu.be/-A_s6GV1ttc

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Etude in Blue e-flat minor (es-Moll) op. 14

There's Still Hope

Fantaisie Impromptue(album 16 ans, 26 pièces pour piano solo) music by philippe blanc

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All my music is written down. I work purely with instruments, not with sound templates and I write with a very classical understanding of music.

Have fun while listening.

Etude in Blue e-flat minor (es-Moll) op. 14

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