String Quartet 3: 'Scéalta cois Tine', Mvt 3: 'Scéal Grianmhar' (A Cheerful Tale)

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

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.

String Quartet 3: 'Scéalta cois Tine', Mvt 3: 'Scéal Grianmhar' (A Cheerful Tale)

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