Name: Improvisation_042a by Robbie de Groot in Orchestral Unwind
Duration: 5 min 22 s
Description: https://www.youtube.com/live/-y0cdpYr1Pw voor kunstmatig vermaak

Fresh classical and orchestral music for an ultimate chill session. Updates every Wednesday with popular tracks in Central and South East Europe.

Orchestral Unwind

Small album containing my four nocturnes which I wrote long time ago.

Nocturne No.4

This is a track we help promote because we find it pleasant! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0J7EFptNh6K6Qebrsrcx8d?si=ae32df247fdd4a1d


Idlewild

Bouquet of Notes

clouds, fascinating how quick and slow they can change and move

Clouds 1

🎧 SoundCloud Description (English):
Let the gentle sound of piano and falling rain wash over your heart.
“Falling Raindrops” is a peaceful solo piano piece inspired by Yiruma’s emotional melodies. With flowing arpeggios and soft dynamics, this track captures the quiet beauty of a rainy day. Perfect for studying, relaxing, or moments of reflection.

No vocals – just pure emotion, expressed through the keys.

🎹 Genre: Emotional Solo Piano / Neo-Classical
🎵 Mood: Calm, Reflective, Melancholy

falling-raindrops-(remastered).mp3

Doubt..... everyone knows or should know what doubt is. A truth among truths, two or more. When you doubt and it goes on and on, take action, decide with all your courage. The best decisions are those that remain AFTER a long period of making choices in your mind and are stronger than other choices in your mind! You are allowed to exist!!

In Dutch: Twijfel..... iedereen weet of zou moeten weten wat twijfel is. Een waarheid tussen waarheden, twee of meer. Wanneer je twijfelt en het duurt en duurt, onderneem dan actie, beslis met al je moed. De beste beslissingen zijn degenen die blijven NA een lange periode van keuzes maken in je hoofd en sterker zijn dan andere keuzes in je hoofd! Je mag er zijn!!

Twijfel 250702

I. Tocata Grande do Saltério, anônima (Paranaguá, Séc.XVIII/XIX)
II. Passio, J.J.E. Lobo de Mesquita (Arraial do Tejuco, 1782)
III. Fuga, anônima (Mariana, Séc. XVIII)

Americantiga, reg. Ricardo Bernardes

Gravação ao vivo, Theatre Chatelet, Paris, 05/07/2025.

Os três movimentos da suíte são releituras livres de obras que circularam no Brasil Colonial, em distintas regiões. A “Tocata Grande do Saltério”, anônima, aparece na coleção de “Cifras de Música para Saltério”, de António Vieira dos Santos, em Paranaguá/ PR, no início do Séc. XIX. “Passio” vem de um breve moteto à capela que anuncia a “Paixão segundo S. Mateus”, dentro do Ofício de Domingo de Ramos, de 1782, de José Joaquim Emerico Lobo de Mesquita, a partir de cópias de Mariana e Diamantina/MG. A “Fuga” é a última parte, “In te Domine speravi”, de um “Te Deum” anônimo, cujo manuscrito está preservado em Mariana/MG, erroneamente atribuído a Manuel Dias de Oliveira. As obras originais apresentam estilos e formas contrastantes entre si, mas tem em comum o fato de fazerem parte do passado colonial brasileiro.

Suite Antiga Brasileira no.2

Lovely Days

Recorded at Zion Community Commons, August 21, 2025

Laura Harada, violin
Aaron Kerr, cello
Rebecca Hass, piano

About “Ad Parnassum” (Ad Parnassum, 1932)
The dark outline of a pyramid-shaped mountain glows beneath a warm orange sun while an open archway invites the viewer to take the first step on their journey towards enlightenment. Inspired by the pyramids and temples of Egypt, Paul Klee’s pointillistic masterpiece from 1932 is built from contrasting blocks of color built up brick by brick in a style that he called “divisionism.” In the same way, the music takes the form of a rondeau as repeated musical progressions are developed through textural variations. In Greek mythology, Mount Parnassus is associated with Orpheus and the home of the nine muses and “a step towards Parnassus” (gradus ad Parnassum) came to define the gradual process of pursuing mastery in scholarship or the arts through diligent, repeated practice. The climb towards any summit begins with a single step and although that journey can be defined as a series of steps towards a goal, there is no guarantee that the path will be straightforward. The path may be winding, or may double back on itself, or seem to disappear altogether – it is built from small victories, epiphanies, frustrations and defeats – and by the end you have come full circle, stepping through the door towards Parnassus once again, both an exit and an entrance.

Ad Parnassum (1932) - No. 144.1 from Paul Klee : Painted Songs

A melancholic classical piano piece in A minor, with a slow 80bpm tempo, The primary instrument is a grand piano, playing a flowing, arpeggiated melody with a strong sense of rubato, The dynamics shift from soft to moderately loud, creating a sense of emotional depth, The piece features a clear, resonant piano tone with natural reverb, suggesting a spacious recording environment, The harmony is rich, utilizing extended chords and suspensions to enhance the emotional quality, The structure appears to be through-composed, with evolving melodic and harmonic ideas rather than strict verse-chorus repetition, The overall mood is reflective and sombre

Solace (Piano Solo)

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Improvisation_042a

Daisy Fields

Piano

Temporality

Christmas Background Music with Guitar, Ukulele, Piano and other Solos

comPlett - Instrumental - Christmas (176)

Pearlescent

original music, Native American style drone flute, piano

Adrift Amidst Waves of Humanity, Whales, Minnows, Sharks, and Loud-mouth Bass

- www.artificialis.nl - 
Livestream Improvisation Tue 20:00-21:00 GMT+2 postponed untill when I return home from personal stress issues
https://www.youtube.com/@robbie-de-groot

(Short version Bio*)
Robbie's first encounter with music was at the age of 6 when one of his aunts gave him a bugle to play on. Few months after Robbie was alowed to rehearse with the local fanfare and kept playing the bugle for 1 year and the baritone 1 year after that. After getting his 'A' diploma, Robbie then returned the lent baritone and said: "Now I have enough" and stopped playing a brass instrument. Yet, a few years later, when he was 11, he found a keyboard on the attic and played it fondly. When his parents could not hold out much longer to hear the same tune over and over (pippy longstockings), his mother then decided Robbie needed 
piano lessons and brought him to a teacher in Groningen: 'Jan Meiborg'.

Quickly became clear that Robbie enjoyed this much and took lessons for 7 years. Here he learned much about improvisation in blues and learned to get more in touch with the piano in general. The last study was on a piece of Franz Liszt: 'Liebestraum no.3'. Jan dared a bet: "If you can play this piece well within 4 weeks, I'll buy you a chocolate cake." So the challenge was accepted. Yet... Robbie was young and became more busy with other things than the piano and Robbie knew he was going to fail.

Thus, with a loss, yet with no side of the bargain, Robbie bought a chocolate cake himself for Jan, and without any words, the both of us knew that this would be the last time of the study. 

Which became more clear the coming year. Robbie did not even touch a piano for over a year and was hanging around with his friends more often. Yet after that specific year, he came home to his parents house... Looked at the piano... Thought to himself: "Could I?... then... Should I?" and began improvising with no one else in the room. Finally he accepted that this had to be his main course. 

** Read the full story on artificialis.nl ** (available in lots of languages but dutch is the main language and the rest is probably pretty poorly translated by machine translation)

Improvisation_042a

Robbie de Groot

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