excellent and invigorating writing, and beautifully performed!

Cascading piano - excellent yet unique (effective usage of less conventional notation)

superb tension dynamism and melody. lovely

Words and Music © Nic Evennett & Phil Dupuis, 2021

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forgotten. this morning.
it never gave fair warning.
the flowers in paper,
but I'm still water vapour.
it's okay, you tell me,
but there's nothing to quell me.
afraid of my shadow
so come again tomorrow.

Isn't it glorious?
Sincerely.
Doesn't this moment smell alive?
I saw the whole world made from petals.
I saw the reason we survive.

the clicks of deciding,
the hand that you are guiding
so dearly. So nearly
but I can't see me clearly.
I'm laying here,
you're laying here
waiting for faith to reappear.
til my lifeboat
sails from your throat.
And I hear you say...

Isn't it glorious?
Sincerely.
Doesn't this moment smell alive?
I saw the whole world made from petals.
I found the reason we survive.

Yūgen

I was again inspired to write this piece after reading the book "The Four Winds" by Kristin Hannah.....it tells about the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression in America/Texas during the 1930...
My sincere thanks go out to Mirjam Keijnemans for adding her own voice and orchestration to my piece which has given it another dimension, and also to Leon Pajer (Orlando51) for the brilliant mix and production of this piece...
I hope you will enjoy listening....

Piano composition by: @lizdicker
Cello, violin and vocals by: @mirjam-keijnemans
Mix and Production by: @Orlando51 

Art picture by Ming-Sun on Pexels

Elselina /Ft. Mirjam Keijnemans

Big Shadows written for Piano Day 2023
inspired by "Go to the Limits of Your Longing" by Rainier Maria Rilke
read the poem here:  https://www.jeffchipman.com/allposts/2023/3/29/big-shadows 
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Big Shadows

The compositions from opus one, are actually bits and pieces from childhood; tunes I made from 8 to 13, somewhat evolved. Puberty had gotten me interested in other things, leaving the piano untouched for a while, but at age 18, my mother, who had given me the piano, had kept on trying to motivate me to start playing again. So I did.  At age 19, when my mother died (age 44), I was compelled to make themes from childhood into two pieces, that I would play (and have played) at her funeral. All contain themes I knew she'd appreciate, staring down at us.

Images from Childhood: Jeannette (Op.1 No.1)

To Sofia, my fiancee and best friend.❤️

Beautiful Love

Remastered by Houman (https://soundcloud.com/houmans)

Flying in the Dream

To Be Young Forever

KLavier 40

Lively & reflective 3rd movement of the Piano Quintet (2003).
Bartlomiej Kominek - piano, 'Camerata' String Quartet.
Live recording: 'Warsaw Autumn 2004', Warsaw, Concert Hall of The F. Chopin Academy of Music, 16th of September 2004.
1st Award, Tadeusz Baird State Competition in Poland, 2004.

Pawel Strzelecki: 3. Finale [Piano Quintet (2003)].

One of 13 pieces; 
composed by Volker Freidel/played by Stefanie Maschke; 
available on CD; spotify or youtube :
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWfa4UZ89usPrgybkfVxDvA?app=desktop

"Arioso" for piano Album out now.

This piece starts off from the repeating 4 notes of the 3rd movement from Beethoven's Tempest Sonata (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRoZgmqlfso) but takes off in a much different direction with new melodies. The piece borrows from Beethoven only those repeating 4 notes and the figuration of the left hand... everything else being my own. Though the feeling is overtly Beethovian too (with all due distances, of course)... And do you sometimes hear echoes of the Für Elise? (To my ear, the Für Elise itself has echoes of the Tempest's 3rd movement, even in its opening theme.)

The title "After the Tempest" has double meaning. It "takes after" Beethoven's Tempest's 3rd movement. And it also represents the sunlight and freshness felt after a storm's atmospheric depression has passed. Triple meaning, actually, as we endure this terrible worldwide depression and wish for the day it will past us somehow...

Played by software, sorry...

The painting shown is by Thomas Cole (1836), entitled "The Oxbow" and represents an oxbow in the Delaware River after a passing storm. Beethoven's Tempest sonata was written 1801-1802 and Für Elise dates from 1810.

After The Tempest (#piano)

Tristesse in F minor

Polish composer (M.A., 2002, "F. Chopin" Acedemy of Music in Warsaw, Prof. Zbigniew Baginski's class), music theorist (M.A., 2000, "F. Chopin" Acedemy of Music in Warsaw, under Prof. Maria Piotrowska), musicologist (Ph.D., 2005, University of Warsaw, under Prof. Zbigniew Skowron), researcher, lecturer.
So far he has written 117 pieces: 12 symphonies (2017-2024), 3 symphonic poemes (2001-2011), 3 solo concertos with orchestra (organ, piano, flute, 2002-2024), 18 string quartets (2001-2024), 16 sonatas for different solo instruments with piano (violin, cello, oboe, trombone, etc.), chamber music as Piano Trio (1998), Piano Quartet (2021), Piano Quintet (2003), String Trio (2021), numerous songs for voice and piano, sacred works, e.g. Mass for soloists, choir, organ and orchestra (2002, rev. 2021), and electronic music.  
The author of the crucial, first and original book (used as academic manual and present in many libraries) on "New Romanticism" in Polish music after 1975 (2022, English Language Edition).
https://www.peterlang.com/document/1282565?fbclid=IwAR1Pm40flHnsqH07OsvXdXwV1ZwLeVLOmfrxkqe3wxL5rsJioluBL-2FQ9M#document-details-anchor
Polish edition (2006):
https://mi.pl/pl/p/Pawel-Strzelecki-Nowy-romantyzm-w-tworczosci-kompozytorow-polskich-po-roku-1975/59

The book was quoted in: Andrea Bohlman: "Musical Solidarities. Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland". Oxford University Press, 2020, pp. 208, 266. The link to the quotation (p. 208):
https://books.google.pl/books?id=uNnBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA208&dq=bohlman+nowy+romantyzm&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjoyL-x-Lf4AhXOk4sKHUWMChUQ6AF6BAgEEAI#v=onepage&q=bohlman%20nowy%20romantyzm&f=false

Pawel Strzelecki: 3. Finale [Piano Quintet (2003)].

Pawel Strzelecki, Ph.D.

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