Name: Bach: Goldberg Variations - Variatio 2 a 1 Clav by necmusic
Duration: 47 s
Description: New England Conservatory piano faculty Randall Hodgkinson performs Bach's Goldberg Variations. Recorded live January 2013 in NEC's Jordan Hall, Boston.

I'm away from the piano at the moment, so I thought I'd share this with everybody...

Compositional sketch for a modern Pastoral Appassionata String Quintet.  Primary composition sometime in November 2013.  Work in progress.

Somebody asked if this is a "sad" song.  Here is my answer:

It is not a "human emotion" song.   It is more a divine/nature/universe  song.  It does not have human emotions like happy/sad.  It has only what is.  It has only pure beauty. Like a waterfall.  Or a mountain.  Or a star. A waterfall is not sad.  Or happy.  It only is. It is simply pure beauty.

Pastoral = of or referring to nature or the creator

Appassionata = with passion  (but in this case, it is not passion like between a man and woman.  it is more passion of the creator for his creation or created for his creator.)

It is more of a spiritual music.  This is what I will do more of later in life. Like these guys:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_minimalism

I aspire to follow in their footsteps one day.

Somebody asked about the plug-ins used:

Solo Bass, Cello, Viola, Violin 1, & Violin 2 from NI Kontact (standard set from Komplete) for this sketch.  Sometime later I will ideally record the real thing... (Or at least use more advanced string libraries.) 6 Instances of 2CAudio Breeze (which I am the developer of) are used here to make the Kontact Strings sound reasonably good. 

http://2caudio.com/products/breeze

The strings samples themselves are not that good.  The reverb is!  :)  That's the trick here.



Many new solo piano compositions to share with you all soon!  Happy New Year!

Andrew Souter -- Pastoral Appassionata For String Quintet (Sketch)

Franz Schubert - String Quartet No.13 in A minor, 'Rosamunde', D.804 - I. Allegro Ma Non Troppo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JOHN_MICHEL_CELLO-BACH_AVE_MARIA.ogg

"Ave Maria composed by Charles Gounod. Ave Maria was composed based off of the harmony and texture of Johann Sebastian Bach's Prelude No.1 in C Major from Well-Tempered Clavier Book I (BWV 846). Originally composed in 1859. http://www.garageband.com/artist/cello

Contemporary Performer: John Michel, a cello professor at Central Washington University.

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JOHN MICHEL CELLO-BACH AVE MARIA

Grand Duo Concertant Op. 48 II. Andante con moto

A. Vivaldi - Concerto for Two violins, Cello and String Orchestra: Third Movement

Extrait de "Amandine Beyer / Portrait"
J.F. REBEL, C.P.E. BACH, N. MATTEIS, R.de VISEE
J.S. BACH, A. VIVALDI, A. CORELLI
Amandine Beyer, violin

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BACH : Concerto in E major BWV 1042 / Gli Incogniti, Amandine Beyer

New England Conservatory piano faculty Randall Hodgkinson performs Bach's Goldberg Variations. Recorded live January 2013 in NEC's Jordan Hall, Boston.

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Bach: Goldberg Variations - Variatio 2 a 1 Clav

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