Name: Elegie (for left hand) by BlackPianoCat
Duration: 5 min 37 s
Description: Autumn comes, and the darkness soon will cover the light of the sun. Soon all of us will be just victims of the darkness. And as darkness is coming something sweet and beautiful approaches our hearts.

A touching, beautiful piece, perfect message for today....

Beautiful soundscape despite the monophony

You capture the brooding of shorter days and lengthening nights. The single note lines still intermingle like footsteps on falling leaves.

This left-hand piece unfolds with a profound, somber beauty, as if each note is a whispered memory carried by the weight of nostalgia. The melody moves with a quiet strength, evoking a sense of loss and reflection that resonates deeply. It’s a captivating journey of introspection, where simplicity meets emotional depth, drawing the listener into a world of gentle sorrow and grace.

Francesco Adornetto

You have captured the essence of autumn with the piano in a masterful way. It carries all that subtlety and feeling. Lovely

This elegie for left hand can be also heard in winter 🌲🎶🕯waiting for a spring, than perhaps a new melody for and with the other hand 🤝😉

I like this beautiful piano tune. Amazing work

This sounds like an improvisation, rather than a prepared piece. It only adds to the beauty. And restraining to play just with the left hand entails a charming simplicity.

Written in B major and B myxolydian

Made with Spitfire Audio's Chamber String Essentials, BBC Symphony Orchestra (Bass Clarinet, Bass Flute, Vibraphone, Viola Leader), Embertone's Bass Recorder and Fractured Sounds Gentle Winds and Electric Keys.

Image by Dids from pexels.com

Dreamy Afternoons

"Starting Over" (demo v2)

Made and played by me on August 16 and September 12, 2024, using sounds e.g. from Yamaha Montage 8 (TX816 Electric Piano), Keyscape (Roland MKS-20 EP sound), Arturia Jup-8 V and UVI SonicPass (Emulator II, Marcato Strings sound).

Edited a little on September 12, 2024 (changed melody a bit & added and modified some chords, added some chorus etc.). Mastered with Ozone 11 on September 12, 2024.

I'm also working on an instrumentalized version. Also, this song could maybe use some lyrics, and it is still something I have to look into. All comments would be more than welcome, especially regarding the melody (it seems that good melodies are pretty challenging to develop).

As two sources of inspiration here I could name Luis Miguel's versions of the songs "Toda una vida" (by the great Osvaldo Farrés) and "Ese momento" (by the great Armando Manzanero).

Starting Over (v2)

This is a piece I composed 4 years ago, my last year I was living in Greece. It sounds like a piano etude for fast arpeggios in impressionistic style. As always water is the dominant element in my compositions. There is a small surprise somewhere in this piece.

It is an old recording. Probably, I recorded it with my phone. Thus, I would like to apologize if the quality of sound is not good enough. However, I think that it deserves a place in my collection of improvisations.

Isn't the sea so beautiful?!

(The photo is taken by me)

Once I Dreamed The Sea -  Κάποτε ονειρεύτηκα την θάλασσα

There was blood...
There was blood on the doorframes 
of the homes that were spared
as the weeping of Egyptian mothers 
was heard through the night. 
Innocents died. 
Mysterious are the ways of the righteous fights.

So strange...
So strange that innocent blood is the price of freedom.
We were told to eat and drink to remember.
And, as I seat at the sacred table, 
I refrain from looking around, searching for the traitor.
It could be me…
It could be me...

Mysterious Are The Ways (based ond Debra Bueskings' "The Sound of Memory" solo piano version)

Autumn comes, and the darkness soon will cover the light of the sun. Soon all of us will be just victims of the darkness. And as darkness is coming something sweet and beautiful approaches our hearts.

Elegie (for left hand)

Terre

J'ai voulu reprendre cette magnifique chanson de Julien Clerc.
Un classique de la chanson française, probablement inconnu à l'étranger.
La mélodie, les accords, le sens, tout correspond à ce que je cherche à composer moi-même.
Cette version se veut un peu plus dramatique en accord avec le texte 
(translated below)

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"À quoi sert une chanson si elle est désarmée?"
Me disaient des chiliens, bras ouverts, poings serrés
Comme une langue ancienne
Qu'on voudrait massacrer
Je veux être utile
À vivre et à rêver

Comme la lune fidèle à n'importe quel quartier
Je veux être utile à ceux qui m'ont aimé
À ceux qui m'aimeront
Et à ceux qui m'aimaient
Je veux être utile
À vivre et à chanter

Ah-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la

Dans n'importe quel quartier d'une lune perdue
Même si les maîtres parlent et qu'on ne m'entend plus
Même si c'est moi qui chante
À n'importe quel coin de rue
Je veux être utile
À vivre et à rêver

Ah-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la

"À quoi sert une chanson si elle est désarmée?"
Me disaient des chiliens, bras ouverts, poings serrés
Comme une langue ancienne
Qu'on voudrait massacrer
Je veux être utile
À vivre et à rêver
Comme la lune fidèle à n'importe quel quartier
Je veux être utile à ceux qui m'ont aimé
À ceux qui m'aimeront
Et à ceux qui m'aimaient
Je veux être utile
À vivre et à chanter

"À quoi sert une chanson si elle est désarmée?"

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“What good is a song if it's disarmed?”
Chileans said to me, arms open, fists clenched
Like an ancient language
That one would like to massacre
I want to be useful
To live and to dream

Like the moon faithful to any neighborhood
I want to be useful to those who have loved me
To those who will love me
And to those who loved me
I want to be useful
To live and to sing

Ah-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la

In any quarter of a lost moon
Even if the masters speak and I'm no longer heard
Even if I'm the one singing
On any street corner
I want to be useful
To live and to dream

Ah-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la

“What good is a song if it's disarmed?”
Chileans said to me, arms open, fists clenched
Like an ancient language
That someone would like to massacre
I want to be useful
To live and to dream
Like the moon faithful to any neighborhood
I want to be useful to those who have loved me
To those who will love me
And to those who loved me
I want to be useful
To live and to sing

“What good is a song if it's unarmed?”

Utile (Julien Clerc - cover)

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“alone among the stars” is an intimate lo-fi neoclassical ambient piece, built around fragile felt piano motifs and warm legato cello swells. Subtle tape hiss and long reverb tails create the sense of cosmic solitude – deeply melancholic yet carrying a quiet hope. A slow-moving soundscape for dreaming, deep focus, or drifting beyond the horizon.

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Hi, I’m Sebastian Korsak—though some know me as BlackPianoCat. I’m a Greek-Polish scientist by day, working in physics and computational biology, but music, and especially the piano, has always been where my heart truly lives.

I don’t play to impress or seek the spotlight. I play to tell stories, to soothe, to connect. These are my personal compositions and interpretations—small reflections of emotion that words often can’t quite express.

If any of this music resonates with you, you’re warmly invited to stay, listen, and be part of this little world I’m creating, note by note.

Elegie (for left hand)

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