The “Traveller's Piano Guide" is a coffee-table musicbook with short instrumental pieces, postcards of life journeys, destinies and destinations. Places I dreamed of, people I met and the small and big goodbyes along the way.

“When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.”
- Huston Smith, The Essential Rumi

A Traveller's Piano Guide

Desert Shadows

Wings

Paris In Blue

Waves

A Traveller's piano Guide

Road To Rome

Father Nile

Athens Dusk

Evening Promenade

Mountains

Late Arrival

This is my rendition of Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta using synthesizers, as I believe their sound lends itself beautifully to the harsh and rough, out-of-this-world but still so earthly, dissonant passages of Bartók's masterpiece, so ahead of its time.

Ambigua, Act II: to transcend

Béla Bartók - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta - I. Andante Tranquillo

Béla Bartók - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta - III. Adagio

This is the third and final act of Ambigua. Act III is Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4 (1899), a string sextet in one movement. Inspired by a poem by Richard Demhel, Schoenberg composed it in three weeks, at the age of 25. It is a perfect showcase of his uncanny skills in classic harmony. Clearly rooted in D minor, it often ventures far from this home key, using extreme chromaticism, undermining both conventional harmony and metric boundaries, signalling the new era that Schoenberg pioneered a few years later: the 12-tone, serial music system.
Ambigua invites diversity, exploration, free spirit and an open ear. It embraces all music that is original in shape and content, as the human imprint in a universal vibe we still struggle to grasp, a breath of “luft von anderem planeten”

AMBIGUA - Act III

A. Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 - I. Sehr langsam

A. Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 - I. Sehr Langsam

A. Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 - III. Schwer Betont

A. Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 - V. Sehr ruhig

A. Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 - V. Sehr Ruhig

Ambient music with a classical twist. Done With Synths.

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