A collection of Orchestral Romantic Classical Film Score oriented pieces.

Orchestral Classical

The feeling and idea for this piece started in a dream.
At times, when forgetting self and just listen to ... to? ... listening without intention? Not knowing how to properly describe what happens when the music just seems to take care of itself, spilling out into a tangible composition.
Remastered - 01.10.23

Egyptology: Enter The Museum

Here's an old one recorded in 2005 and remastered today 02.05.23.
A simple Tango with plenty of little quirks.

Tango 4

Remember those orchestras that used to play at the amusement park at night in the summer or the orchestra at the circus? Well, this is my attempt at recreating that feeling of Kennywood Park on a cool summer night, listening to the music and watching the lights as we sit by the lake. Circus Tango

Circo Tango

Description: Exploring an ancient tomb and discovering that it's guardian, a black panther, is now stalking you.
Remastered - 02.10.23

Egyptology: Watch The Cat

Our imaginary hero goes exploring to be surprized by a torrential rain taking them on an amazing journey. A drizzle to a rushing torrent, a fire to dry, a sunset, then dreams of dancing cacti and a Storybook Fairytale ending.

Slot Canyon Deluge ( Morning Drizzle - Rainbow - Deluge )

Slot Canyon Calm (  After the Storm - Storybook Fairytale Ending )

Film Score Orchestral Romantic.
A journey from the Mountains of Tibet ... to ...

The Diamond

Film Score Orchestral Romantic
A theme from the past.
Written and titled before the video game ever existed.

The Age of Empire ( a theme from the past )

A brisk ballet piece based on an old theme written on guitar in the 1970s.

Safety's Beginning

And they say that on the night before the great crossing, Hannibal climbed the warm earthen moon-baked wall of his beloved’s home, sure-footed as a cat in the cool misty night. She waited for him on the balcony, her eyes bright with laughter, though her light dimmed when his hands found hers. They spoke not of armies, nor of the great beasts that would march beside him, but of almond blossoms drifting on the night air, and of how the stars seemed to lean closer to hear their words.

He told her he would return with tales so strange she might never know which were true, and perhaps a trinket or two from far-off lands. She teased him about the elephants — whether they loved figs as much as he — and he swore to bring her the answer. And when he slipped back into the dark, she could still hear the soft ring of his sword and smell the cedar oil in his hair, as if the night itself had promised to remember him.

Film Score Orchestral Romantic. A night meeting and farewell at the window. Hannibal crossing the alps.

Majesty of Charms

Epic, Heroic, The Lucid Champion. 
With a bit of circus music tossed in to spice it up!

Look Forward, Dreaming

This is a Romantic to Powerful Symphonic Drama written for full orchestra.
I started with the piano track which is the bed for the whole piece and then wrote the upper melodies and orchestration. This was originally composed in 2005.

In My Senses

Our story begins with Jorrit disembarking at Boston Harbor with the ambition to give up life on the sea.
He's a salty ol' dog and it might be a difficult transition but his mission is to make it to the west coast of the United States.
Jorrit has some wild adventures and drunken debauchery in Boston before eventually making his way west into Pennsylvania where he buys a used Conestoga wagon and a team of horses
and sails off into the sunset towards his new life.

Hailing from Vondelingenplaat Netherlands, Jorrit Brouwer, son of a brew master, is frightened of large four legged animals because as a child he was kicked by a drunken donkey.

Conestoga Schooner - The Drunken Sailor Song

Thank you for visiting and listening. I appreciate your comments and messages. Please feel free to say hello! - Steve
General life - info / bio - - -
I began my musical education with listening as an infant and at the age of 7, in 1958, composed my first piece of music which was a brass quartet.

Early influences were guided by the musical taste of my Mother which was often Tchaikovsky and other romantic composers, with an occasional diversion to Big Band and pop music of the late 40's and early 50's.

The Boys Club Band, Grade School Choir and High School Band were a great education in basic orchestration and harmony and in the mid 60's, and self taught as a guitarist, I began live performance, which lasted until 1999.

Music and technology have always been my main interests and as those two elements continued to merge through the late 90's to the present, they have led me to the point where I now can successfully realize my earliest childhood dreams of musical expression in composing for full orchestra.

Special thanks to Mom for the great listening experience, brother Greg for the continued guidance in music from a formal perspective, and brother Lew for the technological expertise.

Orchestral Classical

Steve Karl