Beautifully played and love the expression through out - thank you!

so wonderful hearing this today! I guess this is the kawai, yes!?

how unique your playing! the intensity is refreshing and brings new awareness to pieces, that were before listening to your interpretation, taken for granted by familiarity. Thank you. 😍

Nocturne in B Major, Op. 9 No. 3 (Sheba Blake Edition)

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Brodmann PE-187 grand piano. AKGPerception mics. Pro Tools recording.

Chopin Mazurka Fm op63no2

This is my piano arrangement of Astor Piazzolla "Oblivion" | Live at the Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music (April 29, 2011)

A. Piazzolla Oblivion / Arr. Igor Lipinski

perfect (beautiful piano)

[به درخواست دوستان] <نسخه کامل> از بتهوون -  تریپل کنسرتو [کنسرتو برای سه ساز پیانو، ویولن و ویلینسل] - اجرا از ارکستر سمفونیک گوتنبرگ به رهبری "نیم جروی" - انتشار ۲۰۱۱

 
برای دانلود کاور سی‌دی کامنتها را بنگرید...

 

03. Beethoven - Triple Concerto - III. Rondo alla Polacca -

Sonata 46 for violin and classical guitar

Sandra Haniszewska - Violin
Tomasz Kandulski - Classical Guitar

I was attending music school as an undergraduate in 1998 at the University of Texas at Austin. At the time, Matthew Gould (of Duo 46) was attending as a Doctoral student in guitar and living in Austin with his partner, violinist Beth Schneider. They had started Duo 46 maybe a few years before this. I was hanging out with them a lot in those days - just going over to their apartment or whatever. One day, Matt said to me, "Hey man, why don't you write us a piece?", and I said, "Umm.. ok."

At this point, I don't think they expected much. They hadn't had that many pieces written for them yet, and I was just starting as a composer, only in my second year of school. I decided I wanted to write something that would really show off what they could do technically and musically, and that would leave audiences breathless.

Not knowing how to begin, I lifted a line from a piece that I had just written - a solo flute piece titled "The Five Rings of Miyamoto Musashi". That became the opening line of the piece. Then, inspired by the one movement sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti, I wrote the piece based on that line. The piece is full of things that I was just discovering and becoming influenced by at the time: baroque sonatas, renaissance lute music (hence the "lute" tuning of the guitar), the tangos of Piazzolla as well as the ever-present rock and heavy metal that has always been part of my music. Since Duo 46 premiered the piece in 1999, Sonata 46 has become one of my most frequently and widely performed pieces.

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Sonata 46 (Haniszewska-Kandulski Duo)

Vals que Frederic Chopin dedicara a Maria Wodzińska

Valse de l'adieu

My submission for The Piano Cloud August Classical Challenge. This chorale is the 10th movement of the Cantata BWV 147. Here, I mixed Myra Hess' 1926 version for piano into another simplified version. 

Here's the download for Myra Hess' arrangement if you're interested in learning the piece:
http://en.scorser.com/S/Sheet+music/Myra+Hess+Jesu+Joy+Of+Man+S+Desiring/-1/1.html

Pamela Chng - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by J.S. Bach

Johan Sebastian Bach Keyboard Concerto No. 3 in D major BWV 1054 2nd mov

Pianist Michael Hauber  (https://soundcloud.com/michael-hauber) from Stuttgart / Germany made another lovely recording of one of my "Prelude fantaisies", its  "No. 5", a short but very delicate piece, performed on a Roland RD 170. 
He played all 8 "Preludes fantaisies", so we decided to create a new album. I am sure you will enjoy it, as it contains some of my most extraordinary works...

You can download the album on BandCamp for the price of a coffee :-)
http://beneking.bandcamp.com/album/8-preludes-fantaisies

It is also available on iTunes and Amazon MP3
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/stephan-beneking-8-preludes/id666414315
http://www.amazon.com/Stephan-Beneking-8-Preludes-Fantaisies/dp/B00DNK1PHQ/ref=sr_shvl_album_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1372489651&sr=301-2
and many other platforms like Spotify, GooglePlay etc.

You can also "Flattr" this piece. Flattr is a social microdonation system.
https://flattr.com/t/1661358

Thank you for supporting Creativity!
Thank you also for reposting or sharing on your social networks!

Please have a look at my refurbished website www.beneking.com 
where you can find the score for this piece and many others for free download.

A direct link for the booklet of the "8 Preludes fantaisies" is here:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4v1JwJiY6oJdlJuR3Y4X0tOdGc/

Also I appreciate if you like my Facebook page www.facebook.com/BenekingPurePiano
or follow me on twitter twitter.com/StephanBeneking
or watch my "sheet music videos" on youtube www.youtube.com/user/steveberlin0815

Picture: Edouard Manet, The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil, 1874

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Prelude fantaisie No. 5 - played by Michael Hauber - beneking.bandcamp.com

In a world of appearances, music is the only thing-in-itself. It is an expression of my metaphysical being, and though it cannot be understood, it must surely be felt.

To all my friends on SoundCloud, and those I have yet to meet, thank you for connecting with me through your music. If you have music you want me to execute, I will be honoured to do so. It is a pleasure to know you.

About Me:
Had my first piano - a Yamaha C108 acoustic upright - and piano lessons when I was seven. Six years later, I was made to quit, so I left the piano and went on to mix records with a mobile disco I co-founded as a teenager. Became a school teacher, and now teaching classical piano privately. My focus is on music interpretation, tone production and technique. 

My other interests and areas of studies are philosophy, sociology, writing, cosmology, quantum mechanics, and reading. My greatest inspirations are J.S. Bach, Kant, Nietzsche, and Einstein (wow, I just realised they're all Germans).

Thank you for your comments and for listening.

My current recording setup comprises:
Acoustic piano - Yamaha C108 (pre-2010), Kawai NS-15 (2010-2014), Kawai K-25EA (2020-present)
External mic - Blue Yeti
Software - Logic Pro X / Garageband

Pamela Chng - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by J.S. Bach

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