Reflections of a quiet resolve - a beautifully fluid rhythm of classical soul.

Beautiful...nice musical ideas give a tasteful contrast.

you have a beautiful talent,and a new fan.

Very sensitive piece and beautiful playing!

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My performance of THE Fantasie-Impromptu has been removed because of an erroneous copyright claim. so I improvised this one to take it's place for a while, hoping that they'll reinstate my version of Chopin's masterpiece. 

Fantasy Impromptu

Darkest Green is an original piano composition from my project Butterflies, which has nothing to do with their aesthetics but rather their symbolism - exploring themes of transformation, emergence, inner metamorphosis.

This piece explores the hidden beauty of change, and the fragile power of transcendence, as it moves through shadows and feelings of uncertainty, with fluttering textures and expansive sweeps that reflect the tension between darkness and the fertile possibility of becoming.

Thank you for listening — I hope this piece says something that is relevant to you.

Darkest Green

Trying to return to a bit of writing. 

This was a work in progress... occasionally!     Piece started  20-ish years ago & picked up (very) intermittently since.  Written with children's media in mind.    Not quite finished compositionally, dynamic interest incomplete & unmixed. 

Don't have the technical know-how to create a good production even if I do ever get to the point where I think the notes are right!  Still ambivalent re: whether it's worth persisting or if I should simply drop it.    Advice appreciated.

the tin soldier and the ballerina scoring 16 progress

On spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/61IzMVyODlZuthWLmWN7oM?si=d029eaf7623a4d9a

I wanted to capture a piece of my life in New York, blending hip hop, Latin, brasshouse, salsa, and jazz, all wrapped in my signature fantasy orchestral style. This one was pure joy to make, maybe the most fun I’ve ever had writing music, and I hope that energy comes through when you listen.

A Fantasy in the Bronx

A musical improvisation whilst thinking of a house I once glimpsed some 40 or so years ago which possessed the essential elements of the cover artwork. I have never set foot in the house, or seen it since, but it returns to me often when I sit and play❤️ॐ

August 20th, 3am

The Vipers Nest

Music that tells the tale of a river of people stretching out behind me, to another land and another life; a land scarred by cruelty and an existence no better than slavery back in the time of The Great Hunger.

The lady pictured on the cover artwork is my Great Grandmother Bridget Wynne, born just after the worst of the Great Hunger had passed, and who, like millions of others, left her home for a better life. I’m not all that sure she found it. Although her family somehow survived the worst, Bridget remained small -  somewhere around 4 feet 6 inches (1.37m) - and bird-like for her entire life.

She is the only one of my older Irish relatives of whom I have a photograph .

An Gorta Mór

A live performance of Over The Rainbow (Arlen, Harburg, 1939)and Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell, 1967) with some comments on sexism in music, beforehand. Recorded live at South Hill Park arts centre, Bracknell on a very hot Midsummer night. Please excuse the background noises, we had to have the windows open on this very hot and wonderful evening, and children were still playing in the park....lovely 
; )

OverTheRainbow/BothSidesNow Live

A minor key improvisation on Happy Birthday. One of many different arrangements of Happy Birthday I have been recording for my publisher De Wolfe Music

Sad Happy Birthday Classical Piano Improvisation

From the Madhouse: An Aislingeach (Completed)

This is a new and extended version of a song I uploaded some time ago (https://soundcloud.com/user-630984439/silent-dream).

I composed and recorded this version while I made a YouTube video with pictures taken this summer on Costa da Morte, Spain, because I think the music suits the pictures quite well. See the video on https://youtu.be/GCg8dhP8Z5s

Costa da Morte

"In the Beginning" is about the first steps towards accepting the reality of a devastating diagnosis, and the desire to create a new identity after going through such a life-changing experience. the bittersweet melody of the trumpet reflects the deep emotions associated with this inner struggle to move forward, and reluctance to leave the past behind.

Sweet Apple

In The Beginning

My latest composition - for a dramatic escape chase scene.

The Escape

Dedicated to acclaimed pianist Lemuel Grave, ‘Waltz Awaiting’ was written as a gesture of thanks for the interest he has shown in my music, and for performing it.

The pianist in this instance is Jeanell Carrigan

Dr Jeanell Carrigan AM 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.

Image source: Oleg Kalaytana

Waltz Awaiting (Piano Solo)

Decided to get back to what got me into writing for films in the first place, orchestral adventure scores! 

So in this piece I've try to encapture themes of wonder, danger, action, heroism and beauty.

Hope you enjoy! :)

©ben stanbridge 2019

Adventure Awaits

Alchemy at Bollingen Tower: An Architectural Ballet
A Fateful Compulsion 
Set: Ephemeral, not solid. Stage dark (night) with flashes of light. 
Dancers: Beings of Light, Young Builder, Fear & Lethargy 
Action: Many Beings of Light are illuminated moving quickly, coming and going in a flash. Like glimpses of understanding that come suddenly and then are lost. Fear & Lethargy block the light from the sleeping Young Builder. Overcoming Fear & Lethargy, Young Builder captures the Light-dancers, one by one, and puts them into order, into writing, into books of light – wisdom books. Books close – darkness.

A Fateful Compulsion

R.A. Moulds studied music at the University of Southern Mississippi.

From the Madhouse: An Aislingeach (Completed)

R.A. Moulds

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