This is the title song of my New album.  Cerulean (heavenly blue) visions of memories and how I want things to be...musical prayers of my soul.

Cerulean Dreams

original music: Dirk Maassen
piano: Carlos Marquez

image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38393443@N00/4616028755/

Dirk Maassen: Caduco

A simple solo piano piece that tries to transmit a bit of peace and dreaminess (in the final part).

Regards!!

Your Hair In The Wind (solo piano)

I had a couple of collabs with Ivan Ujevic (https://soundcloud.com/iohannes) before, adding ambient piano to his magnificent ambient guitar. The very recent one was just a couple of days ago: https://soundcloud.com/iohannes/elegy-no-3-ft-milana-zilnik
Same time Ivan asked me if I can play the solo piano version of the piece. He didn't have the note sheet so I asked if it's ok to just interpret the piece with an improvisation rather than trying to follow the original composition precisely. Ivan gave his approval and we recorded this interpretation by "cutting" the original into 5-10 seconds parts and improvising on each of them separately, then merging everything into one piece.

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Elegy No3 by Ivan Ujevic - piano interpretation by Milana

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It's been many months since I last shared a new composition here. I hope you will enjoy this new one! 
As 2014 comes to an end and we look forward to the new year ahead, I hope this track might provide a simple soundtrack to your reflections, as it is for mine.
Happy New Year!

Looking Back, Looking Forward

guitars: F.Hiemenz & O.Kälberer
music by Luigi Boccherini(from quintet no 4 in D major for guitar and string quartet, arr. for two guitars) 
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We played this during some kind of music festival, which took place in a sports hall.
Just in the right moment, a little swallow entered the hall, began to sing and so made itself unforgettable. That was really funny and amazing. You still can hear it if you listen carefully ;-)
'87
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Painting "El Jaleo" (excerpt) by John Singer Sargent 
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Grave & Fandango by L.Boccherini (played by F.Hiemenz & O.Kaelberer)

Release: October 2015

Quatuor Voce
Lise Berthaud, viola

After its first two recordings, devoted to Schubert then Beethoven, highly praised and recommended by the critics (both ffff in Télérama, recommended by The Strad...), this eclectic, innovative quartet is now celebrating its tenth anniversary by tackling the string quintets of Mozart and Brahms.
These two scores, representative of the culmination of a career in the case of Brahms and, for Mozart, the end of a life, are sustained by vigorous inspiration and frothing energy.
Whereas the Brahms Quintet, both brilliant and highly moving, recalls some of his best-known themes (including that of the Sextet, Op. 18, used by Louis Malle in his film The Lovers), Mozart jotted down on paper the four movements of a work that speaks intensely about him, in the diversity of its moods and the complexity of its writing.
Named ‘Rising Star’ for the last season by the European Chamber Hall Organisation, the Voce Quartet has performed in venues the world over. For this project, it calls on Lise Berthaud, one of the most brilliant French violists, to round out the quintet.

BRAHMS - String Quintet No.2 in G Major, Op.111 I. Allegro non troppo, ma con brio - Quatuor Voce

Un viaggio

New England Conservatory students Julia Connor (Violin), Sarah-Hadley Yakir (Violin), Jessica Pickersgill (Viola), Noémie Raymond-Friset (Cello) perform Beethoven’s Beethoven: Quartet for Strings no 11 in F minor, Op. 95 "Serioso" . Recorded live in Jordan hall, Boston, December 3, 2015.

Beethoven Quartets

Beethoven: Quartet for Strings no 11 in F minor, Op. 95  Larghetto espressivo - Allegretto agitato

Spirits in the Wind
Music composed and performed by Stephan Fischer
Native American Flute performed by Zack Parrish: https://soundcloud.com/zack-parrish
check out the vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm_j944Ak9A&fb_source=message

Spirits in the Wind - Stephan Fischer feat. Zack Parrish

Glenn Gould - Bach - Goldberg Variations (1964)

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Beethoven: Quartet for Strings no 11 in F minor, Op. 95 Larghetto espressivo - Allegretto agitato

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