Marcello- Concerto for Oboe in d

Liszt - Piano Concerto no. 1

Remember Me - Coco (piano cover)

Bagatelle No. 16

Solo Piano.  Created in Real-Time LIVE at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Carmel Valley Village CA.

Year of Music: September 20, 2025

Played by Phil Best.

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Prelude in Eb minor Op. 23 No. 9 - Rachmaninov

Tchaikovsky II

Suite No. 1 For The Orchestra in D Minor Op.43 - Intermezzo

Chopin's G minor Ballade is one of those pieces that is played a great deal and often rather mangled by exaggerated rubato and mannered interpretation. I love to reveal the unvarnished truth about music, to reveal its natural patterns and structure. For me, allowing the rhythm and melodic lines to flow with natural flexibility only adds to the extraordinary cathartic beauty of Chopin's refined yet emotional and virtuoso composition.

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Ballade in G minor op. 23 - Chopin

Musikszene Hessen
Zu Gast: Aleksandra Mikulska, Darmstadt
Moderation: Christiane Hillebrand

Aleksandra Mikulska wurde 2005 als beste polnische Pianistin ausgezeichnet. Sie ist nicht nur in Chopins Heimat Warschau aufgewachsen, sondern entwickelte bereits als Kind eine große Liebe zu dessen Klaviermusik. Bis heute ist sie der Musik Chopins verbunden. Anfang Juli ist ihr jüngstes Album "Reflections" erschienen. Hier kombiniert sie zwei Schlüsselwerke des romantischen Klavierrepertoires: die beiden Sonaten in h-Moll von Frédéric Chopin und Franz Liszt. Mit uns wird sie u.a. über die "Sensitivität, musikalische Ausdrucksfähigkeit und makellose, transparente Spieltechnik" sprechen, die Chopin für das Klavierspiel einforderte.

hr2 kultur - Musikszene Hessen - 25.07.2020

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Mendelssohn Song Without Words in A minor op 38 no 5

The joy we feel at the sighting of a butterfly when the warm weather arrives after the long, dark cold of winter is a very special feeling. Music can bring us this joy whenever we need it!

First Butterfly of Spring

First Butterfly Of Spring

For Phil, traditional classical piano training was something of a straitjacket. He rebelled from a very young age by teaching himself to improvise and play by ear. Fundamentally gentle by nature - he’s a vegan and life-long meditator - the competitive world of classical piano seemed brutal. Phil plays music simply for the love of it and nothing else matters to him. He’s not interested in definitive interpretations or who-can-play-the-fastest performances: what Phil offers is real musical sense, through delivering rhythm and groove, melody and harmony with depth, clarity and unconventional intelligibility.

Phil plays in a refreshingly unpretentious and accessible way, telling musical stories with vivid, straightforward passion. Being a Yorkshireman, he says it how it is, and music for him is profound solace, catharsis and joy: so this is what he offers. Being extraordinarily fluent in the language of music on the keys, he loves to improvise freely, allowing the music to pour forth spontaneously, from a place of deep body-and-soul consciousness. And he aims to make the music of Mozart, Chopin, Rachmaninov, and every piece he plays, come from this place of real transformation and healing.