Pinocchio runs away and Gepetto is unable to catch him.

Pinocchio runs away from home

The second movement of Sergei Rachmaninoff's colossal First Piano Sonata opus 28, here orchestrated by Nando Florestan.  This second movement is said to represent the character of Gretchen, the girl used by the demon Mephistopheles to convince the old Faust to become young again... for a price.

Rachmaninoff: Gretchen (orchestration by Nando Florestan)

Original music for Charlotte Lawson's short animation "Breathe".
Watch it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k1C62v7Lsk

Breathe (OST)

An elegy for a baby cat that died in spite of my -- and my wife's -- efforts.

This was no ordinary cat.  She was an orphan, but she never complained about that, welcomed every caress, and from these small things one could discern her awesome character.  I really don't think you've met one quite like her.

For a dead kitten

"Rhapsody for strings" is Nando Florestan's response to a challenge: to create a melody starting with a (very uncommon) descending major seventh interval.

This version contains only sounds from Sample Modeling Strings.


Album at https://music.nando.audio/
This score is available at https://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/florestan

Rhapsody for Strings

Main theme for "Weird Events at Night 4"

Orchestration of the first movement of Rachmaninoff's colossal piano sonata n. 1.

The other 2 movements will follow soon.

Help a starving composer, buy an album at
https://music.nando.audio/

Rachmaninoff: Faust (orchestration by Nando Florestan)

Two Horns Walk into a Bar

Heavy Music

Fake News

A tale for children.

If you speak Portuguese you can read the fable of the Raspberry Pig as the music unfolds at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mjSsAQB3hU

If you speak English, here is the story by Janaina Tokitaka:

Many years ago a pig was born with raspberry scent.
Everyone delighted at the natural perfume of red fruit that his pink skin exhaled.
Now in the same kingdom there was princess who dreamt of owning a pet pig.
But her parents, the King and the Queen, demanded that the animal be clean and odoriferous in order not to muck the white halls of the palace.
The raspberry pig heard that rumor and started marching to said palace.
Because the position was his for sure.
It's just that the castle was far, it hadn't rained in a while and the pig walked and walked and gathered the dust from the roads and...
got very stinky feet.
The pig arrived at the castle self-proclaiming the RASPBERRY PIG.
The princess ran to hug her new pet, but...
...the beast stank exactly like any normal pig.
The king and the queen were already preparing the expulsion from the royal palace of that dirty, deceitful animal...
...but the princess, crying, said she could prove that was a raspberry pig.
She gave him a bubble bath and applied moisturizer to his feet and baby powder behind his ears.
After that, the Queen snorted and had to agree that the pig was rasperry all right.
And every day the princess gave the little pig a bubble bath with sulfate-free shampoo and so they remained together and aromatic forever.
After all, that was the raspberry pig. Or not?

The Raspberry Pig

Nando Florestan is a composer of classical music (and pianist). He studied harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and composition with Osvaldo Lacerda, then went on to study music at Universidade de São Paulo.  He is available to score your film, game etc.  He also knows a lot about music theory and might be available to teach you.

Nando Florestan (composer)

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