"Offrande" ("Offering") for piano solo, beautifully performed and recorded by the amazing Phil Best, to whom I give my profound thanks.

Score available for purchase at: http://www.swirlymusic.org/music/solo-piano/r-a-moulds-offrande-for-solo-piano/

Offrande (performed and recorded by Phil Best)(Op. 88, 2013)

Track 12 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-firm-dark-orchestral-suite

The Orange Barron (the Ascaridida Firm CEO) finally decided to run for his country presidency just after reading again Adolf Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf”. His doctrine “In Fraud We Trust” has never been so true. His admiration to Ken John-two, Voldimir Toopin and other dictators makes him dream of being the greatest dictator of all time. Guess what, he may soon appear one day in front of a church close to the Black House holding a bible over his shoulder as a salute just like Hitler did 87 years ago.  

“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

Music and Production: Syrel
Photography: Syrel (1989)

Musical Note: This track is somewhat inspired by "Catch Me If You Can" from John Williams. This score was made entirely using Spitfire Audio (SA) ALBION ONE library except two instances of SA LABS plugin (Tape Orchestra: Strings Flautando  at 0:04 and Trumpet Fields: Coast Is Clear 1 at 2:20)

Latest News: This soundtrack was also used for the Spitfire Audio Bridgerton Scoring Competition. https://youtu.be/Jl1Tduyl8Y0

The Firm

Running for President's Seat

Égloga: el Sauce que se enamoró de la Caricia del Viento (Leyendas Místicas I); recorded by the Moravian Philharmonic, conducted by Joel Suben [Mystic Legend #1, "Eclogue: the Willow that fell in love with the Wind's Caress."]

Égloga: el Sauce que se enamoró de la Caricia del Viento (Op. 78, 2002)

Composer, Irminsul
Pianist, GraceANN Cummings

studio recording of Impromptu in Black

Impromptu in Black

Crystals and shadows

One of my compositions. this time for Piano and Flute.  A dream of searching and longing, and perhaps finding.
Una composicion mia para piano y flauta.  Es un sueño de busqueda y anhelo, y posiblemente de encuentramiento.

Nocturn In C# Minor

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Svarkenstead

Made with Sibelius software and the beautiful noteperformer sounds! Hopefully in the spirit of Beethoven.

String Quartet Adagio in A flat Major

I'm only uploading this because it's a slightly updated version with minor changes to the music and a better quality recording of all 3 movements in 1 track.

Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor

A nocturne. I began writing this piece during the summer of 2016 and left it alone for a while, missing most of the middle section. It was finished in 2019.

Composed in 2016, 2019.

Summer Nocturne

Amber - the stone from the tree. Used by ancient Greeks to build our world.

Amber (Orchestral incl. guitar)

Many of today's critics tell me that there's no place today for music that echoes times past, but I'm not writing it for them.  I write to entertain myself, and I write what speaks to me, and hope that a few others will enjoy listening along the way.  For me, writing music is a release, an outlet for my sentiments and emotions that don't find other avenues of escape.  
Music is and always was, entertainment for the masses, not just the classical elite, and somewhere among those masses, are people who just like a good tune, me for one.
A little about my background.

When I was 7, I started to take piano lessons from a little old lady who lived across the street. I continued going there until I was about 13 I think. I reached the dizzying heights of grade 3 royal school of music exams. I hated taking the exams and after the 3rd I stopped going in for them but continued the lessons.

I have no further qualifications or studies, what you see (hear) here is the result of a life long love of classical music and lots of hours self teaching.

My piano teacher once told me that I have an exceptional ear. I don't know if that's the case but I've tried to develop it over the years and make as much use of that ear as I can, (the other ear too) 😂
I hope you like what you hear and thank you very much for passing a few minutes listening to my music.

Kind regards
Mark

Nocturn In C# Minor

Mark McDonald