Soundtrack of the 1993 film The Piano, composed by Michael Nyman.

Live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?ny8-EtKWiKE

This theme is reprised several times, called The Heart Asks Pleasure First/The Promise/The Sacrifice. It is based on a traditional Scottish tune titled "Gloomy Winter's Noo Awa".

The instrument is a Clavia Nord Stage 2, using a sampled Yamaha C7 grand piano, and one single note of sampled strings.

Note: replaced with a better take on June 3, 2014

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Michael Nyman - Theme from The Piano

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"Primavera" composed by Ludovico Einaudi, piano cover by musician and composer Dominique Charpentier.
Transcribed and arranged by Dominique Charpentier.
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-5WNStHmRk

Primavera - Ludovico Einaudi (Piano Cover by Dominique Charpentier)

Ennio Morricone - The Mission Main Theme (Morricone Conducts Morricone)

Here's a small cover of a pretty short track from the movie "The Cider House Rules". It's the main theme of the movie, composed by Rachel Portman (Oliver Twist). As usual, I played everything by ear with a Yamaha NP-V80, Cubase 5, Garritan Personal Orchestra and Steinberg's Grand Piano 2. Thanks for listening guys !

ps : I never use quantization, it makes me feel like a robot is playing <:o)

Rachel Portman - The Cider House Rules Main Title Cover (full orchestra)

LUDOVICO EINAUDI - I GIORNI (piano instrumental cover)

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1 Cello -Music Example 1. Yo - Yo Ma Plays The Prelude From Bach´s Cello Suite No. 1

Ten directions is a Eastern cosmogony’s term that means "in all directions throughout the space." These directions are the eight of the compass: east, south-east, south, southwest, west, north-west, north, north-east, plus the Nadir – to the down - and Zenit - at the top.  These "Ten directions" are often matched to past, present and future to describe the set of all places – Ten Directions - and times - Three Times.
 At any time and in any place existed a sound that awakens and resonates at a specific emotional state. A call that is heard and collected by those who were looking for it for a long time and in any direction.
 
While playing or composing, I take refuge into myself, directing the sound through the ten directions of space. Then, I let my thoughts meander both in the internal direction, the innerself, and in the outer, the discovery and the meeting. The union of these two states arouses emotion, subtle matter that can be felt by those who are listening and are on the same frequency and in tune.

 The launch of the thought starts from the silence, and then, one key after another, starts moving and traveling through the air like an arrow into space. The sound is without obstacles, in the ten directions, and resonates through the invisible world of vibrations. Announces itself and enters the inner space. It comes to ears, the hearing organ, and shakes all the other senses. It kidnaps, touch the nerve centre and pervades us. It meets and joins up with something that is already there, and is welcomed as it was expected all along.

 The sound is clear, it radiates and spreads everywhere, and comes back, in a two-way process, creating contact points and unexplained bridges. Is a dimension that affects and charms because we recognize it, surprised and excited at the same time. As a light, it illuminates hidden areas through the mind and the heart, and reaches the deepest part of our inner. The listener and the player finds themselves alive in a sensitive state, and this sharing creates the communion, the union of sound and spirit, music and noise away from fiction, which dwells always and everywhere in the ten directions.

Ten Direction

Wild Sea

Op. 4 No. 4

Ludovico Einaudi - Al di là del vetro

Tom Boyd performing live March 27, 2012 at APU.

1 Cello -Music Example 1. Yo - Yo Ma Plays The Prelude From Bach´s Cello Suite No. 1

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