I have been on that Ludovico Einaudi Concert recently when I gazed up the sky while they played and there was that dove flying in the sparkling sun.... A magic moment and I wanted to catch and treasure this moment in a song. Fortune wanted that Pascale Scarabin contacted me the same weekend and so we started out this collab together with Kayll Frappier who added such a wonderful and heartfelt Viola to it.

I am so happy that all this is possible on the web.... I hope you will enjoy it as much as we did !

Pascale (Voice): https://soundcloud.com/pascale-scarabin
Kayll (Viola, Violin): https://soundcloud.com/kayll-frappier
Dirk (Piano, Ambience, Arrangement)

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Ô temps ! Suspends ton vol, et vous, heures propices !
Suspendez votre cours :
Laissez-nous savourer les rapides délices
Des plus beaux de nos jours !

Assez de malheureux ici-bas vous implorent,
Coulez, coulez pour eux ;
Prenez avec leurs jours les soins qui les dévorent,
Oubliez les heureux.

Mais je demande en vain quelques moments encore,
Le temps m’échappe et fuit ;
Je dis à cette nuit : Sois plus lente ; et l’aurore
Va dissiper la nuit.

Aimons donc, aimons donc ! De l’heure fugitive,
Hâtons-nous, jouissons !
L’homme n’a point de port, le temps n’a point de rive ;
Il coule, et nous passons.

Maassen | Scarabin | Frappier - Ô Temps! Suspends Ton Vol

Hiraeth v1

UCL Chamber Music Club's Lunchtime Concert
Recorded live on 10 February, 2012

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Piano Quintet in Eb Major, Op. 16 - III. Rondo: Allegro, ma non troppo

Rachel Varnam – oboe
Jordan Lam – clarinet
Martin Woolley – bassoon                                            
Daniel Heanes – horn
Lin Yang – piano

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Beethoven: Piano Quintet in Eb Major, Op. 16 - III

Cracking Shadows

Inside

so after my big looong cry last night..... I woke up ... seeing a silver lining :) ... Things will get better! 
not being in a job is not a good thing really, especially if its essential for you to be working. I guess that's what I needed to see .... for a while. 
Its usually the times that I am overwhelmed ... A song comes around :) 

so here is a new song (another improv) .... its been what? 3 months and not one song came out. so here we go! 

That Silver Lining

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor

Based on the idea of an empty drawing room at night – except, that is, for the piano. It holds within its wood and strings snatches of music, harmonics and melodies that others have played on it… Any ideas for better names gratefully accepted.
The instrument used is a Viennese double strung piano – a very rare and extremely fragile instrument. 

The girl at the piano

One of the "bonus" tracks included in my latest "Autumn Stories" CD. 
Enjoy! 

Week #14 (Piano solo)

The Chase

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Late Spring

The piano score is available for purchase - contact the composer for information! 

About the composition:
This first Fantasie, as suggested by its title, was composed as a response to a number of sleepless nights. The thematic material is found throughout, expressed as an "idée fixe" with an evolving emotional framework. This idée fixe represents the uncontrollable obsessions of the subconscious as they cycle through a fitful, sleepless night. 

The piece moves through a vast range of emotional extremes as the initial expression of melancholy builds and evolves towards increasingly emotional declamations. The traditional Fantasy Form determines that the structure of the piece must be relatively free, so the work is given structure through the symmetry of the large sections. Furthermore, the cohesion of this piece is achieved through balanced phrasing, and the recurring presence of the original thematic material, which is represented not only in many keys, but also in differing registers, in melodic inversion and with thematic variation. The core of the work is where the composition construction is most complex: constantly juggling multiple layers of melodic ideas superimposed upon one another. As new melodic material emerges it encourages a dispute between animated passion and emotions of a more whimsical or reposed state. The coda suggest a delirious, exhausted conclusion to the seemingly endless night, with the last hints of the idée fixe overcome by hallucination and finally yielding to a fanciful flight into dreams. 


Inside

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