I love this dynamic and elegant piano piece...!! maybe this series are for your daughter? wonderful works, Stephan.

Fantastische Komposition, Stephan! Da müsste man so Klavier spielen können, atemberaubend! :)

Such powerful and intense and expressive playing by Carlos!! Bravo!! Stephen,this Valkyrie is wonderful!! I enjoyed this very much!! Peace :)

The 12 Valkyries are figures from the Nordic mythology - they collect the slain heroes from the battlefield and bring them to "Valhalla", the "holy hall".
Pianist Carlos Márquez (https://soundcloud.com/cmdigital) was so kind to play some of them - enjoy his breathtaking interpretations!!
Eventually we will also release a Valkyrie album in the future.

The whole series is devoted to Isabella, my little Valkyrie...
You can find the scores booklet here: http://www.beneking.com/valkyries

Painting: Peter Nicolai Arbo, Valkyrie, 1865

Booklet with Scores

Valkyrie No. 2 - played by Carlos Márquez - www.beneking.com

From Alessandro Marcello's Concerto for Oboe, arranged for solo keyboard by J S Bach
Cello arrangement and performance by Deryn Cullen

Adagio BWV 974 - Marcello-Bach

27th of January - Holocaust Remembrance Day
IMPORTANT: Please watch the video for the "Dance of the Forgotten" here: http://youtu.be/bFbuBmyxMZ4
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Among the millions of victims of the Nazi Regime and the Holocaust, one group is still forgotten today: the nearly 400.000 victims were people with disabilites in the so called "Euthanasie" programs. In fact, they were the first victims of the Nazi regime, and they were the first human beings killed in gas chambers. The "technology" of gas chambers and "death plants" ("Todesfabriken") was first developed for and tested on the German people with disabilities. 

They were regarded as "unwertes Leben" ("unworthy life") and "Ballastexistenzen" ("ballast people"), "wertlose Menschenhülsen" ("worthless human bodies") and "nutzlose Esser" ("useless eaters"). At the end of the programme nearly everybody was in danger, who could not work, even elderly people and wounded soldiers were "euthanized".

Their names are still kept secret. Many of their families still feel "ashamed" today. They feared being viewed as having been "infected" by their disabled relatives ("erbkrank").

The victims of "Euthanasie" were legally not accepted as persecuted by the Nazis and thus did never receive any reparation. It took until the year 2007 (sic!) that the German Bundestag declared the "Erbgesundheitsgesetz" for illegal.

Most of the involved doctors continued their normal lives after the war. The victims were forgotten.

This piece goes therefore out to these forgotten victims of "Euthanasie", because "if we forget the victims, we murder them a second time."

Picture: Anna Lehnkering (2.8.1915 - 7.3.1940)
Anna was as a young girl sterilized and later on killed in the gas chamber of Grafeneck.
http://www.sigrid-falkenstein.de/euthanasie/anna.htm

This piece is part of the "Holocaust Remembrance Suite" for solo piano, which is an unique remembrance project, which has grown out of a collaboration between Stephan Beneking, composer based in Berlin, and pianist Hal Freedman (https://soundcloud.com/classical-soul-pianist) from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. 

The innocence and beauty of pure piano classical music 
poses a stark contrast to the horrors of the Third Reich and the Holocaust.

All recordings of the "Holocaust Remembrance Suite" uploaded to SoundCloud you find here: https://soundcloud.com/stephan-beneking/sets/holocaust-remembrance-suite-1

The booklet with descriptions about the historical background and scores / sheet music can be downloaded for free here:
http://www.beneking.com/hrs

Each piece in the Holocaust Remembrance Suite contains a vital message about the war crimes and atrocities of the past. Unfortunately, the message is applicable to conditons that persist in our world today. It is our sincere hope to raise social awareness of these problems through this important project.

The Suite is accompanied by dramatic videos showing images, which further tell the story behind each individual piece:
http://www.youtube.com/user/steveberlin0815
http://www.youtube.com/user/hmfreedman

The 'Holocaust Remembrance Suite' can be downloaded from BandCamp and is available (for regular price) on iTunes and many other platforms. 
http://beneking.bandcamp.com/album/holocaust-remembrance-suite-charity-album
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/holocaust-remembrance-suite/id675961753
http://www.amazon.de/Holocaust-Remembrance-Suite-Charity-Album/dp/B00E0QQ52C/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374427542&sr=301-1

All proceeds will be donated to charities.


YouTube Video

The Dance of the Forgotten - Holocaust Remembrance Suite - played by Hal Freedman

Henry PURCELL : Three parts upon a ground

This is an impro with artist Nicolas Roscia when I was in the countryside of France at the end of last Summer. I didn't know Nicolas until that day, and he picked up his guitar in the workshop, I put the mic on, and we started improvising, so the sound quality is not the best, but we had a good time.

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COLLECTION.
This series brings together the finest Baroque recordings from the Alpha and ZZT catalogues: discs singled out for honours,
emblematic artists of music from that period, recordings that marked the discography...
This is also the occasion to discover or rediscover universally known works as well as world premiere recordings of rarities.
In the framework of these rereleases, the performers have been interviewed and bear witness to their view of the work and
their recording several years later, and their fascinating remarks are taken up in the booklets (all trilingual: French, English,
German).

BACH - Missa Brevis In G Minor, BWV 235 - Kyrie by Ensemble Pygmalion & Raphaël Pichon

Andante con moto, 2n moviment de la Simfonia nº8 de Schubert interpretada a l'Auditori de Girona.
Andante con moto in E major, 2nd movement of Schubert's Symphony n0. 8 "Unfinished" performed at Girona's Auditorium.
Orquestra/Orchestra: GIO(Girona Symphony Orchestra)
Director/Conductor: Marcel Sabaté
Data/Date: 15/02/2015
Enregistrament / Recording: Catalunya Música
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SCHUBERT - Symphony No 8 "Unfinished" - 2nd Mov - Andante con moto

The Atlanta Baroque Orchestra live in concert, Sunday, 22 May 2011, at Roswell Presbyterian Church in Roswell, Georgia, Julie Andrijeski, Director and Violin.

Charles Avison, Concerto, Op. 2 No. 1 in G minor, Movement 3

guitar: F.Hiemenz
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This recording  was part of my very first studio production, long long time ago...
Listen to all tracks of this production at http://soundcloud.com/fhgitarre/sets/affettuoso-assai-old-archive
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recorded in puzzlepie studio Munich/Türkenfeld '85
restored from old analog tape with WaveLab7 by FHgitarre

"Vals op.8 No4" by Agustin Barrios

Henry Purcell (1659-95)
The Fairy Queen, Z.629 (1692)
O let me weep (The Plaint(e))

Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor
Ensemble Artaserse

11.12.2010.
TCE, Paris

Radio broadcast on France Musique

O let me weep, for ever weep, 
My Eyes no more shall welcome Sleep; 
I'll hide me from the sight of Day, 
And sigh, and sigh my Soul away. 
(He's gone, he's gone, his loss deplore; 
And I shall never see him more.) 
via http://www.youtube.com/user/sjuli17

O let me weep (Purcell) - Jaroussky - via SJuli

Composed, performed & produced by Deryn Cullen

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https://soundcloud.com/stephan-beneking/valse-melancolique-viii-le

Valkyrie No. 2 - played by Carlos Márquez - www.beneking.com

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