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

El Oboe de Gabriel es el tema principal de la película "La Misión" escrito por el compositor Ennio Morricone, fue nominado para un premio de la Academia como mejor musica original. Morricone gano el Globo de Oro a la mejor Banda Sonora Original (BSO).
Interpretado por Bodas y Eventos.

Ennio Morricone - Oboe De Gabriel

Dmitri Shostakovich - Andante aus dem Klavierkonzert Nr.2 F-Dur

Endless Melancholy - Do You Remember

* written for Next Festival 2025; premiered by Next Festival String Fellows at Gibney Dance June 15, 2025.
* recorded june 19, 2025. 

sugarcube

Be careful to sow wisely the good seed, for one day you may have to eat its fruit.  Perhaps grace is not demanding to receive everything that we think we are entitled to by our own merit or position, but rather to instead give thanks for not receiving everything we may deserve for our failures and folly. Let us be diligent year round to do the best we can to nurture our crop. Let us be humbly content to accept result of these efforts, whatever it may be, at the time of the harvest.

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"Autumn Rains" is the second installment in a trio of neoclassical solo piano albums composed, performed, and produced by Andrew Souter. These projects have been two decades in the making and represent a return to traditional music composition, engaging song-writing, and the pure passion of emotional story-telling. This trio represents Andrew's most personal and intimate music. It is quite literally a love project. We hope it may help you on your journey, as it has us...

"Autumn Rains" is music inspired by the spirit of Agape. It is an album dedicated to the concept of spiritual love and universal compassion clothed in the metaphor of transcendental natural beauty. It is an album that simultaneously expresses deep love for both the creator as well as the creation. It is said God gave us music so that we could pray without words. It could be added that nature was provided as an example of exactly how to do this effectively. In this spirit, Autumn Rains is a prayer of gratitude for the opportunity to learn from the natural beauty of this world, and an expression of a sense of respect for the inescapable universal equality that nature imposes. It humbly attempts to capture deep feelings of awe, granduer, idealism, and a belief in the innate goodness of the world even when we all face exceptionally hard lessons.

Andrew Souter -- The Harvest

Sometimes it's possible to get through dramas in our life on our own, but there are times that we need to ask for that "Helping hand". This can be a difficult thing to admit, for some of us & this solo piano improvisation, is a reflection of these feelings put to music.

Here is a link to the Youtube clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VCm2DshWfo&feature=youtu.be


Helping Hand

Hugh Wolff conducts the New England Conservatory Philharmonia in a performance of Barber's Adagio for Strings. Recorded live April 2010 at Symphony Hall, Boston.
For more information: http://necmusic.edu/concerts

Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

Karl Jenkins - Palladio

Hans Günther Wagener - Der Traum an die Sommernacht

Ernesto Cortazar - Beethoven's Silence

New England Conservatory educates and trains musicians of all ages from around the world, drawing on the talent and deep reservoir of experience of our distinguished faculty. We are dedicated to inculcating the highest standards of excellence and nurturing individual artistic sensibility and creative growth. Understanding that music is one of the transcendent expressions of human civilization, NEC aspires to ensure it a central place in contemporary society. Additionally, we present over 1,000 free concerts a year in our world class performance spaces which include historic Jordan Hall.