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Melancholy

Soundtrack for the Lucid Dreamer is one of the composer’s first attempts in making programmatic chamber music. The suite was composed from January to March 2018. Though pieces like Lull and Last One Awake existed as piano works written during the composer’s first year in composition, the work, now as a Suite for Cello and Piano, was finished in March 2018. The title suggests a modern, contemporary musical depiction of a lucid dreamer’s fleeting adventures in Slumberland. Lull is the melody caressing the individual to fall into a deep slumber. Melancholy is the dream slowly falling into place. Alone is the feeling of being in the center of the darkness and being thrown into the unwanted spotlight. The piece Ripples is about the dream progressing and drifting into complexity and nothingness. And Last One Awake is the insomniac’s feelings and dreams coming true, awakening to the reality of restlessness and being consciously awake. The suite is dedicated to the composer’s wife, Ena, and the composer’s best friend, Emil, although the Suite is loosely based on the composer’s insomnia episodes happening now and then.

Chamber Works - Niño Tiro

Soundtrack for the Lucid Dreamer: V. Last One Awake

Soundtrack for the Lucid Dreamer: IV. Ripples

Niño Tiro

Soundtrack for the Lucid Dreamer: III. Alone

Soundtrack for the Lucid Dreamer: II. Melancholy

Soundtrack for the Lucid Dreamer: I. Lull

The Two Pieces for Cello and Piano or the Romance and Allegro for Cello and Piano are Romantic pieces in the style of Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms. Both pieces are dedicated to the fantastic cellist Anjo Inacay. The Romance is an early work written during the composer’s graduating year (for his first Bachelor of Music degree), originally for piano under the title “Solace.” Solace is comfort in sorrow, and the piece evokes loneliness and resolution in its form. It is Schubertian in its episodes and themes with a dash of the composer’s love for Jazz harmonizations. The Allegro, written in November 2018, is a powerful, passionate, unpredictable fantasy piece full of conflict, mood shifts, emotions, and utmost virtuosity.

Romance and Allegro for Cello and Piano: I. Romance

The Two Pieces for Violin and Piano or the Fantasy and Elegy are works meant to showcase the skills of the virtuosi duo Gina Medina Perez and Mary Anne Espina. The Fantasy is a neo-classical style piece in the Sonata Allegro form with dashes of freeform romanticism on the side. A demanding piano and fiery violin cadenza precede the recapitulation of the piece. The second piece is an elegy, a swan song for the composer’s father, who succumbed to cancer in 2011. The work was composed during the father’s seventh death anniversary in December 2018. It directly contrasts the first piece’s mood, filled with Romantic overtones and deep feelings and musings for the lost loved one.

Fantasy and Elegy for Violin and Piano: II. Elegy

English translation: I know I know what you love in me: it is the glow in my chest, it is the enchanting ornament of the deeply secret inner lust, which radiates from me and calls to you: close me in a rock, so I call you through marrow and leg: Come, live, love, die with me, you have to, you have to!

Ich Weiss, translated as “I know,” is a lied set to the text of the poem with the same title by German Romantic poet Clemens Brentano. The beautiful interplay between the voice and piano speaks of unconditional and unfathomable love that is deep and everlasting. The composer’s melodic and harmonic prowess is at play here as the piano parts flow and ebb with the intensity and drive of the words and the expressions of the voice. The work is dedicated to the soprano Nenen Espina.

Ich Weiss

The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D minor is one of the composer’s more significant large-scale works. It is for the composer’s sister, Marie Antoinette. It is for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, two trombones, bass trombone and tuba, timpani, cymbals, snare drum, bass drum, strings, and piano. The first movement is a musical tour-de-force with the constant exchange and flurries of themes and runs between the soloist and the orchestra. It features a very cleverly written development section and a massive and extended cadenza for the piano. The second movement opens with a beautiful serene largo central theme and a sublime, tender closing with the interplay between the woodwinds, strings, French horns, and the soloist. A dark and romantic development section precedes the piano cadenza and the gentle recapitulation. The concerto ends with the explosive third movement, which is a relentless yet playful, fast, and fitting conclusion in Rondo form.

Concerto For Piano And Orchestra In D Minor - I. Allegro Appassionato

The Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, composed during a very fruitful period of the composer’s life (July-August 2018), is a virtuosic Classical-Romantic style piece. The piece is dedicated to Joel Matematico, a Clarinet major in the Liceo Conservatory, and Johann Bäcker (The composer’s composition mentor, Horst’s father), a very accomplished clarinet player in Romania and Germany. The first movement is an energetic, passionate, driven piece in the Sonata Allegro form with a difficult cadenza for the clarinet before the recapitulation. The second movement is an Adagio with a languorous melody and a striking resolution in the last subject. The third movement is a graceful, spritely, dance-like work in Rondo form.

Sonata For Clarinet And Piano I. Allegro Energico E Passionato

Two Serious Pieces For Orchestra II. Absolution

Two Serious Pieces For Orchestra I. An Unpleasant Revelation

Two Easy Pieces For Orchestra II. Andante Giocoso

Two Easy Pieces For Orchestra I. Allegretto Grazioso

The admin of LC BED asked me to record my version of the Loyalty Song. This is my version. It's a bit raw and rough around the edges but i like it still..

Lourdes College Loyalty Song

Raw. I recorded this with much haste. For the LC BED. haha.

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