2020_05_27

M like music 17

classical

Masterpieces found in SC for bigger and smaller setups - in some kind of randomized order...
The list to be completed little by little...

Contemporary Ensemble &  Orchestral Masterpieces

Updates of the piano roll recs and beyond - from the recent few days, just prior the beginning of 2019, and after....

"Archive Updates Jan 1, 2019-2025" - A New Year's Concert

Piano and Strings musical original composition : @syntaleta
Guitars and Mix : Neno J.

No More (Collab w Syntaleta-remastered)

when the violin talks

 "Allegretto" from Palladio for String Orchestra by Karl Jenkins 

Karl Jenkins - Palladio

Beethoven's fifth symphony is regarded as one of the most renowned symphonies in the entirety of classical music. Its consistently recurring and exceedingly iconic introductory tune, allows it to link the symphony's four movements together into the innovative, complex and emotionally arousing piece that it is universally acclaimed for. It is the perfect classical track to indulge into at any deserving moment. 

Symphony No. 5 - Beethoven

Love song written by Joe Brooks and first released by Kasey Cisyk 1977 on single "You Light Up My Life". Re-scored, virtually re-rendered, and recorded by VV Apr2016 with aBluethner modeled grand, revoiced %reconfigured, and the rec.setup made by VV, from a  sequence (for a jazz band) of an anonymous renderer. Photo by VV 2015.

You Light Up My Life

GabrielMarie: Causerie (Conversation), Pauline Haggard 1925 on Duo-Art 6840.
Recorded by VViljanen (by permission) from playback of the digitally simulated reconstructed  original reproducing piano roll. The rec updated Feb 6, 2023 by VV using a modelled Blüthner grand modified and revoiced by VV.
ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED.
Photo: Gabriel Marie (1852-1928). Jean Gabriel Prosper Marie (8 January 1852, Paris – 29 August 1928, Puigcerdà, Girona, Spain) was a French romantic composer and conductor.
The basic info of the original piano roll:
CONVERSATION (Salon Piece)
Roll Number: 6840, 68407
Composer/Creator: Marie
Pianist: Haggard
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: February, 1925
Category: popular, salon
Original Price: $1.75
(Source of the roll info: The Piano Player Group web page)

Gabriel Marie: Causerie (Conversation).  Pauline Haggard 1925 on Duo-Art 6840

"Through its dynamic co-operation TrondheimSolistene (the Trondheim Soloists) and 2L has always sort to stretch the boundaries of what is possible to convey to the listener, aiming for the ultimate recorded listening experience. With the Serenade the team has taken things one step further with the TrondheimSolistene truly justifying their name. By placing each individual next to someone from a different voice rather than sitting in conventional sections we are working at the very outer limits of what is possible and creating chamber music at the highest level" - Øyvind Gimse, 2012.

http://www.2l.no/pages/album/090.html

We allocated two weeks in 2011 to record this new album. Artistic director Øyvind Gimse and his associate Geir Inge Lotsberg initially chose two pieces that represent, in their estimation, "the most beautiful music ever composer for the string orchestra": Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence and his Serenade for Strings. Aiming for a 90 minutes program left 30 more minutes to record. So the orchestra and 2L logged on to Facebook and asked the listeners worldwide what they'd like to hear. And the audience responded: Nielsen's Suite Opus 1. A little gem that would exploit the Trondheim Soloists' singular way with Nordic repertoire.

Inspired by Morten Lindberg's extensive work with choral music, the Tchaikovsky's SERENADE was recorded with the ensemble placed in mixed voices, meaning no one is sitting beside anyone playing the same part, creating a totally new soundscape to the music. Carl Nielsen's SUITE opus 1 is recorded in a more "traditional" way in these sessions: Facebook Photo Album - Recording Sessions Part I

What we recorded in May 2011 is now published exclusively as high resolution audio files, by streaming and on vinyl. Then our recordings from October will add up to a full release on Pure Audio Blu-ray in May 2012.

DXD (352.8kHz/24bit) DMM (Direct Metal Master)
180g audiophile grade vinyl

TrondheimSolistene (The Trondheim Soloists) are regarded as one of the top chamber orchestras in the world. Their DIVERTIMENTI and FOLK STYLE were both nominated for a total of five American GRAMMY Awards in categories "Best Small Ensemble", "Best Engineered Album" and "Best Surround Sound Album".

The music captured by 2L features Norwegian composers and performers, and an international repertoire reflected in the Nordic atmosphere. The surround sound recordings of Lindberg Lyd not only transforms the entire listening experience, more radically, these innovative recordings overturn some very basic concepts regarding how music is played and even composed. 2L emphasizes surround sound with Pure Audio Blu-ray and HiRes file distribution, and have garnered no less than 12 American GRAMMY nominations over the past six years.

Tchaikovsky - Souvenir de Florence: I. Allegro

Chocolate Milk Waltz

VST  - Friday  short afternoon theme  :-) - just oveproductioin

2018-08-31

on the road

Mood Board

SIMPLICITY ITSELF (from Two Pieces for Cello and Piano) 

The majority of this work was composed without the aid of any instrument, sitting amid the grounds of the Dame Eadith Walker Estate, Concord while my late and beloved mother was receiving dialysis treatment. I knew at the time she had not all that long left to live.

If I am permitted to have a favourite work of my own, this would be one of but a select few pieces I have composed across the forty plus years of my creative life.

The cellist in this performance is Minah Choe, with Jeanell Carrigan at the piano.

Minah Choe 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).

Dr Jeanell Carrigan 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.

Simplicity Itself (cello and piano)

Sinfonia « Saphir » for symphonic orchestra
Franck Douvin © September 2018
I hope you'll like it!

Sinfonia « Saphir »

The Carny

The music for the end scene of the film Cicatrix directed by Rory Wilson

Connection (from the film Cicatrix)

I am very thankful to Jussi for adding his wonderful guitar work to this composition. An additional thanks to Bruce Conover for doing such a great job on mastering this track.  

To hear more of Jussi's great music go to:

https://soundcloud.com/juswel

De Profundis = From the Depths

De Profundis (featuring Jussi Welin)

REX MEUS

Jubilee

Herman Hupfeld: As Time Goes By. Victor Arden 1932 on Ampico 213801.
Recorded from digitized original reproducing piano roll by VViljanen Dec 29, 2018
ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED.
Photo: As Time Goes By sheet music cover from 1942 (this song was used in the movie Casablanca)
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
AS TIME GOES BY Fox-Trot
Roll Number: 213801, 213801
Composer/Creator: Hupfeld
Pianist: Arden
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: January, 1932
Category: dance, popular, salon, song
Original Price: n/a
Notes: With word
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Hupfeld: As Time Goes By. Victor Arden 1932 on Ampico 213801

herman Hupfeld: Sing Something Simple. Harry Shipman** 1930 on Ampico 213051.
Recorded from digitized original reproducing piano roll by VViljanen Dec 29, 2018. Updated with lyrics*** Feb22, 2019.
ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED.
Photo: Sing Something Simple sheet music cover (Paris 1930)
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
SING SOMETHING SIMPLE "The Little Show" Fox-Trot
Roll Number: 213051, 213051
Composer/Creator: Hupfeld
Pianist: Shipman
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: November, 1930
Category: dance, popular, salon, song
Original Price: n/a
Notes: With words
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)
**Harry Shipman was pseudonym of several well-known pianists playing on the piano rolls  in the 1920's - 30's :
Adam Carroll
Angelico Valerio
Edgar Fairchild (Milton Suskind)
Herbert Clair
***LYRICS:
SING SOMETHING SIMPLE
from 1930 New York review "The Second Little Show"
(Herman Hupfield 1930)
as recorded by Maxine Sullivan
August 22nd 1939 New York

Sing something simple,
A little ditty that's sweet and simple;
You'll get the swing of it soon,
For here's a tune
That any child can sing.

"D" stands for dimple,
The words are silly, the song is simple,
And after hearing it once,
The dumbest dunce
Can memorise the thing.

Do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do, you can't go wrong;
All say it's bound to sound like some other song!

But lord knows, it's simple,
So get together and let's be simple!
I don't know whether or not you knew
They called it "classic I love you!".

Sing something simple,
It doesn't make any sense, it's simple.
It says a man in the moon
Will marry soon,
George Washington is here!

"D" stands for dimple,
Without the "s" we could not be simple.
I know a fellow who threads a needle now
Without a piece of thread!

Do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do, you can't go wrong;
Do-ti-la-sol-fa-mi-re-do, a silly song!

But lord knows, it's simple,
So let's get together and let's be simple!
And when you've finished that song,
You're through, that's why
They call it "I love you!".
(Transcribed by Peter Akers - December 2013)

Hupfeld: Sing Something Simple. Harry Shipman** 1930 on Ampico 213051

Such silly things come to my mind
The way I smile to myself
When I’m feeling sentimental

And cloudy thoughts make way for daydreams
Oh cloudy thoughts can go...
Oh they go....

Such funny thoughts
Well they go through my mind
The way I laugh to myself
When I’m feeling sentimental...

Chorus

Such silly things
Come to my mind
The way I smile to myself 
When I’m feeling sentimental...
Ooh

SENTIMENTAL

Kahn & Warren: Where The Shy Little Violets Grow. Pauline Alpert 1929 on Duo-Art 0616.
Recorded from digitized original reproducing piano roll Jan 2, 2018 by VViljanen.
ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED.
Photo: Where Shy Little Violets Grow sheet music cover, 1928
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
WHERE THE SHY LITTLE VIOLETS GROW (Fox-Trot Song)
Roll Number: 0616, 0616
Composer/Creator: Kahn, Warren
Pianist: Alpert
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: February, 1929
Category: dance, popular, song
Original Price: $1.25 (Avg price (between $0.65 and $2.00))
Notes: With words
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Kahn & Warren: Where The Shy Little Violets Grow. Pauline Alpert 1929 on Duo-Art 0616

For those moments when mixed emotions come across and you can experience this kind of "happy sadness" feeling...

Mixed Feelings

Sunrise

This track can still be downloaded here:
https://deryncullen.bandcamp.com/track/andante-from-symphony-no-5-tchaikovsky

Simplicity Itself (cello and piano)

Phillip Wilcher