Listening again - just puts a smile on my face.

Nice to hear this beautiful melodic composition

I'm so pleased there are still people like you who manage to write beautiful, original tonal compositions.  Thanks for sharing

such elegant compoistion and playing. Great to find msuic still being written that is so gently evocative

trying to play cello for a year now ...but not regularily :-)

2019_08_29

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

Preludes for Piano

Prelude 3. Indecisive Impressions

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

Snowscapes: Nº1 Introduction, Solitude.

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

Dream's edge(flight of fantasy)

All rights reserved by Enchanted, 2018.

Vocal arrangements and lyrics by Amanda Aalto. Produced by Amanda Aalto. 

Cover artwork by Amanda Aalto
https://www.deviantart.com/amandaadigitalart

Lyrics:

He was born
when the fall
brought down the rain
And the clouds were black
Thunder raged
through the skies

And they gave 
him a name
that brought him fame
When he grew up
and left his home
towards the unknown

Facing the danger 
Facing the unknown
His heart guided him through it all
Towards new lands
Towards new seas
He found the magic in his soul
The words untold

He was called the Child of the Storm
and through him all the magic was reborn
reborn

Embracing his shadows
and he fought them down
Sailing across the waters
under the pale stars
Healing his wounds
Chasing the demons
of the mankind
Risking his life
for all those poor souls

Follow your heart
Your heart

Learning the magic
The way to his inner soul
He studied hard and found a way of his own
Following his teacher,
the man who raised him up
They held the magic in their hearts no man could undo

He was known as the Child of the Storm
and through him all the magic was reborn
reborn

Preparing his boat
for the one last time
Sailing across the waters
under the windy skies
Saying his farewell
Facing the demons
for the one last time
He spent all his powers
and then he fell down

The symbol laid on his forehead
as they laid him down
Towards the city of the dead
And the white flowers filled the air
and people stood there
Letting their saviour go

Change your stars
Your stars

He ruled the air, 
the seas, the earth
He healed the injured, 
cleansed the dirt
He walked the land
of the dead
Spoke the words
none had ever said

The Child Of The Storm

Origins

Ooh..

When the darkness comes
You can look for me
When the darkness calls(it calls)
You can look for me...

Let me be your lullaby
Only dream of me(only dream of me)
Let me be the voice you take
Through the night

You can mark my words
I will be always be
The voice you know 
As you close your eyes with me...

Let me be your lullaby 
Only dream of me
Let me be the voice you take
Through the night
And you can hear my lullaby
And only dream of me
Take me through the night
The night

I want you to take me(your lullaby)
I want you to take me (I’ll be your lullaby)
I want you to take me
Through the night

And you can hear my lullaby
And only dream of me
Take me through the night
Take the night

LULLABY

Journey To Dark Castle, Symphonic Poem for Orchestra (mastered by eMastered.com)

One of two pieces for cello and piano dedicated to Howard Pollock. In musical terms, a “lilt” is considered to be a spirited and usually cheerful song or tune, springy and buoyant in movement.

The fashion image accompanying this upload is of a Women's Kentucky Derby Church Wedding Noble Dress Hat. I found the image at ebay. My reason for selecting it is because I sensed a certain "lilt" to her look. Perhaps I should rename my piece "A Day At The Derby." 

About the performers:

Minah Choe (cello) was born in Seoul, Korea and began her studies at the age of 8. She graduated with Bachelor of Music with First Class of Honors from the Sydney Conservatorium where she was admitted whilst at high school and received scholarships throughout her studies. She was a full scholarship holder at the Australian National Academy of Music in 2002. In 2004 Minah received master's degree from the Indiana University Jacob’s School of Music under the guidance of Prof. Janos Starker and continued with doctoral degree as his teaching assistant at IU. Currently Minah is pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Sydney Conservatorium while working as a freelance cellist in major orchestras and performing widely in various chamber music concerts and recitals. ​Minah has appeared as a soloist with several orchestras including Sydney Symphony, Christchurch Symphony, Nizhny-Novgrod Philharmonic, Indiana Univeristy Philharmonic, Bloomington Camerata, Sydney Conservatorium Chamber, and Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic, the Beecroft orchestras, and Melbourne String Ensemble. Minah has won numerous awards including “Most Promising Performer” in 4th Adam International Cello Competition, Australian Postgraduate Award, inaugural Janos Starker Scholarship, Dorothy Fraser Scholarship and Australian University of Women Federation Commemorative Fellowship. ﻿Minah is passionate about teaching cello. She was a tutor at AYO Young Symphonists in 2010 and tutor at the Riverina Summer School for Strings in 2013. This year, Minah teaches at the Sydney Conservatorium and the Conservatorium High School and has commenced working as a Music Co-ordinator of the ​Australian Korean Classical Association.﻿Minah plays a cello by Joseph Hel (1869).

 

Jeanell Carrigan (piano) is presently an Associate Professor in Collaborative Piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. She has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist in Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and throughout Australia, and has recorded for the Bavarian Radio Corporation, the ABC and for regional stations in Australia on many occasions. She holds a Doctor of Creative Arts in the area of Australian post-1970 solo piano repertoire and in May, 2016 released her seventeenth solo compact disc of Australian piano music. She is passionate about promoting Australian Music particularly the piano music of Australian women composers. In a review of the CD A Little Variation, composer Houston Dunleavy said “This recording is one to add to the list of treasures of Australian music that seem to be growing by the year. Surely Jeanell Carrigan belongs in this category as well. Australian music has a great champion in Carrigan’s fine playing and scholarship. She deserves far wide recognition for the quality of her work.” (Music Trust 1/4/15)

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

The piano was the Fazioli concert grand tuned and maintained by David Kinney.

Recording engineer: David Kim Boyle.

Lilt (cello and piano)

Musique originale composée pour le reportage "Enquêtes spéciale aux Magnolias" réalisé par LE FILM'ANTHROPE
Association La Chrysalide - MARSEILLE

Vengeances Epic

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.

Lilt (cello and piano)

Phillip Wilcher

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