A few of my favorite George Winston solo piano pieces I played on a variety of digital and electronic pianos.

Winston Electric

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coffee and studying

"Graduation" was written by George Winston and was first released in 1999 on his 8th solo piano record entitled "Plains".  This song has a stately grandeur about it that evokes a sense of accomplishment and pride.  Listening to this piece inspires me to look back and reflect on the amazing accomplishments of my two beautiful daughters and the many graduations that have already happened, and those even more important ones yet to come.  

I recorded this piece on my Nord Stage 2, voiced it with my Steinway Model D patch with a good amount of sympathetic resonance and ambient mechanical sounds.  I recorded it with Ableton Live 11, mastered with Ozone 8 and used EQ, reverb, compression, limiting and imaging.

Graduation

A beautiful solo piano piece by George Winston from his 1991 album Summer.  This piece was inspired by early mornings in Montana where he grew up.  I voiced the piano using Modartt's PianoTEQ (v7 std) Steinway Model D with a bit of EQ, compression and reverb.  I played this on my Nord Stage 2 and recored my performance using MOTU's Digital Performer 10.

Early Morning Range

Japanese Music Box(Itsuki No Komoriuta)is a traditional Japanese Lullaby.  The title means Lullaby of Itsuki, a region of southern Japan near the city of Komumoto.  This arrangement is from George Winston's album Forest.  The melody is haunting, melancholy and both exquisitely beautiful and simple all at the same time.

I recorded this piece on my Nord Stage 2 controlling the PianoTeq 7 virtual piano loaded with a Steinway Model D simulation.  I used Ableton Live 11 to manage the MIDI recording which I made in a single pass with no editing.  All effects (EQ, compression and reverb came from PianoTeq.

Japanese Music Box (Itsuki No Komoriuta)

FUNK ESTRANHO (SUPER SLOWED)

Jazz Café: Calm Jazz Mornings

Steaming Glow

في حضنك الدافئ أجي+ أسكن تحت ظل بيانو

Alice in Paris!

U & I

Entre les Ombres: Jazz Relaxant

Ambiance De Jazz Pour Le Brunch

Funk

Background Tapestry: Jazz Background Music

Mellow Jazz

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02. Cozy Space

The songs ‘Returning’ and ‘The Cradle’ are from George Winston’s Grammy award winning album ‘Forest’ released in 1994.  Returning has been transposed to the key of G minor as George frequently played this song as the introduction to The Cradle which is also in the key of G minor.

‘Returning’ was written by George Winston and ‘The Cradle’ is George’s arrangement of a song originally written and recorded by jazz organist Larry Young (Khalid Yasim) as a duet for organ and drums on his 1968 album Heaven on Earth.  The song is dedicated to moms everywhere.

I recorded songs on my Nord Stage 2 voicing Spectrasonics Keyscape using a custom patch based on a modified 7’ 6” Yamaha C7 Grand Piano.  This piano was fitted with Renner “Blue Point” hammers with Welckert felt - a special piano hammer felt used during the pre-Cold War “golden age of Steinway”.

Returning/The Cradle

'Living in the Country' was originally written by Peter Seeger, an American folk singer and social activist and was first released in 1962. I came to know the song when George Winston released his solo piano arrangement of the tune on his 1991 album 'Summer' (the song was originally written and recorded on guitar).

'Living in the Country' is a joyful, bouncy song with a beautiful melody and a ton of rhythmic complexity between the left and right hands. The song starts out in 6/8 and then moves to 2/4 at a blistering 88 BPM. I voiced the piano using Heavyocity's Ascend Modern Grand (a deeply sampled Steinway Concert D Piano) and recorded the track using Ableton Live 10. All effects processing was carried out within the instrument itself aside from my simple mastering chain on the primary stereo output.

This intro section of this song (despite how simple it may sound) is deceptively very difficulty to play, as are the right hand triplets over a straight syncopated left hand rhythm line. This level of difficultly makes 'Living in the Country' extremely rewarding to play which, combined with my long affection for this song, has made recording this song a true labor of love. :-)

Living In The Country

My version of George Winston's Amazing song "More Than You Know" from his "Spring Carousel" record.  This song is a haunting and beautifully contemplative piece that is at once bold and stately with wide thick chord voicings while somehow at the same time managing to be delicate and extremely melodic.  It makes me feel happy and incredibly hopeful about the future and the many roles I have yet to play.  

I recorded this on my Nord Stage 2, but I voiced the piano using SpectraSonics Keyscape virtual instrument choosing the Yamaha C7 Grand Piano with a warm character and mic placement that allowed me to pull out the natural sound of this beautiful instrument.

Returning/The Cradle

Todd Dunst