@hans-petersommeregger: Thank you, Hans. Thank you very much!

What a gorgeous piece and amazing playing. Really love this

Beautiful piano playing..Stunning arrangement filled with emotion

Tiny tiny hints of Rachmaninoff in here :)

The Ocean Project is a virtual Art Project, initiated from Eva-Catrin Reinhardt.

Do you want to be part of my ocean internet project? Please send me the link or track of your improvisation / composition to  improvisation from me and others about the ocean: cross currents soundcloud.com/eva-catrin-reinhardt/sets/the-ocean-project-for-love-and .

With communiaction we can recognize, that we are connected with each other. Music is communication between listeners and musicians. The Ocean Project stands for love and peace in our world. Thank you so much, if you will take part of it. Please play your Version and send me the link. I will post it under this project.

Warmest regards from Berlin

Eva-Catrin

The Ocean Project - For Love and Peace in Our World - Play your Version

Fantastic modernist piece, with colors that reminds one of machines, of Hollywood, and of fairy tales (often with a grim or sarcastic tone). It starts of with a beautiful Russian folk tune, and from that emerges a sound narrative that no one could predict, full of unexpected turns, in a balance between incomparable excitement and pristine beauty. Perhaps one of the greatest piano concertos of the 20th century. 

I play the solo part, and Carlos Hernandez conducts the wonderful Ball State Symphonic Orchestra.

By the way, often this quote is attributed to Prokofiev: “there are still many beautiful things to be said in C major”. Whether he said or not, this Concerto definitely attests to the truth of the statement.

Prokofiev - Piano Concerto n. 3, mov. 1

April 13 - I hope you can hear trough bad record my musical intention.

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Cross Currents

Preludes for Piano

Prelude 3. Indecisive Impressions

إليك يا كافكا، وإلى كل ما عانيت من خوف ورعب وفزع ووحدة ودهشة وعزلة وقهر وحب، أهديك خلاصة جهلي الموسيقي وقلة معرفتي وسوء أدواتي، موسيقى لا ترتقي لحرف واحد كتبته بدمك..

ahmad amar - Kafka's Writing

Series of thoughts on a snowy and almost desolate landscape. (From old tapes: the sound quality is very modest.)

Snowscapes: Nº1 Introduction, Solitude.

Cross Currents Reinhardt/Gregor gespielt Gregor

A long slow somnambulistic violin with some background sounds for added relaxation.

Dream's edge(flight of fantasy)

LEGEND after “The Shadow of Cain”

This seemingly large- scale work was first drafted between March-April of 1978. It takes as its “subject matter” the poem The Shadow of Cain by Edith Sitwell. 

“The Shadow of Cain” is about the fission of the world into warring particles, destroying and self-destructive. It is about the gradual migration of mankind after the Second Fall of Man that took the form of separation of brother and brother, of Cain and Abel, of nation and nation, of the rich and the poor – the spiritual migration of these into the desert of the Cold, towards the final disaster, the first symbol of which fell on Hiroshima.” (Preface to Collected Poems by Edith Sitwell)

The piece is predominantly in minor keys but for the final section in the major. Perhaps this could be heard as a ray of hope, that our greater humanity will reign supreme in troubled times such as these. But for progress to happen of any kind, that would see kindness play its part, the process underway must play itself out for Love as we are meant to realize it to be given the chance to prove Life wrong. 

The pianist is Jeanell Carrigan.
The piano is a Fazioli.
Recording Engineer: David Kim Boyle

Recorded at the Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music August/September 2017

Legend after The Shadow of Cain (piano)

1st movement


“Resounding through all the notes
In the earth's colorful dream
There sounds a faint long-drawn note
For the one who listens in secret.”

...

“Take, then, these songs,
That I to you, beloved, sang”

You can tell by the quotations Schumann used in his Fantasie, op. 17, that it is a very passionate - yet lyrical and vulnerable - work. 

Its main extra-musical themes are his passion/love for Clara Schumann, his admiration for Beethoven, and the mysterious note and listener of the first quotation. But those are all so impregnated in the music that they barely fit the “extra-musical” label. The magic of Robert Schumann of making literature become music, and music become literature.

Schumann - Fantasie op. 17, I. Durchaus phantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen.

I'm going to make some remakes of the old versions, and this is one of them
https://soundcloud.com/user-441019026/invitation

Invitation (remix)

Davidsbündlertänze, Dances of the League of David, Op. 6, is a set of eighteen pieces for piano composed in 1837 by Robert Schumann.

Legend after The Shadow of Cain (piano)

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