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Glasscherbenviertel

Soundtrack to The Man who Painted his House (2025)
score by Richard Uttley
(Richard Uttley, piano; Rosalind Ventris, viola)

Layers: Time & Pattern [2025]

Piano played by Sasha Su Chuang
Violin Played by Sasha Su Chuang

Stariways to Heaven

02 - Gift of Shuritashi

Quatuor à cordes n°1 en Ré Majeur - 3 - Moderato

Prelude

Petit-Poucet

River Flows In You - YIRUMA

"Intermezzo," 1969, by Jeraldine Saunders Herbison, b. 1941, USA, Piece No. 13 from Music by Black Composers, Flute Volume 1.

Created in partnership with the National Flute Association. (https://www.nfaonline.org/)

Music by Black Composers is a project of the Rachel Barton Pine Foundation. For more information, please visit www.musicbyblackcomposers.org/ and www.rbpfoundation.org/.

Dr. Paula Gudmundson, flute
Dr. Diana Shapiro, piano

Donald Schraugnagel, post-session producer and engineer

MBC Flute 1-13, Herbison - "Intermezzo" (FLUTE AND PIANO)

Aurora Introitus

めぐる pf

Wistful Spirit

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

NOVELETA - simulación virtual para referencia solamente

Muses of the Valley is my ambient chamber music project featuring women from around the Yarra Valley. We perform in beautiful settings to take you into a dreamy world of bygone eras, Celtic fantasy and magical places. The Muses use a range of instruments to create a sparkling fusion of traditional, modern, and early music.

This recording features:
Amy Earl (harp)
Chrissy de Jong (flute, tin whistle, cajon)

Example tracks above:
1. King of the Fairies (trad. Irish Hornpipe)
2. Circle of Joy (Lisa Lynne & Aryeh Frankfurter)
3. Song of the Water Kelpie (trad. Manx tune)
4. Iris (Guido Piccard, Ensemble Galilei)
5. Planxty Irwin (O'Carolan)
6. The Musical Priest (trad. Irish reel)
7. Var det Du (trad. Swedish)
8. Douglas and Fiona Shearer (Jenna Reid)
9. Swan LK243 (Catriona McKay)
10. Chanter's Tune (trad. Irish)
11. Stockford Carol (Loreena McKennit)
12. Captain O'Kane (O'Carolan)
13. Castle Kelly (trad. Irish reel)

“The mystical Muses of the Valley will whisk you away into a world at once fantastical and familiar, with a selection of traditional and modern folk music, Celtic tunes and medieval gems.” - Cranbourne Chorale

Recorded and mixed by Amy Earl

Flute & Harp duo examples

https://www.youtube.com/live/-y0cdpYr1Pw voor kunstmatig vermaak

Stariways to Heaven

SuYin (Sasha) Chuang

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