A piano/vocal cover of this piece of musical poetry by Vienna Teng, one of my favourite folk artists.

"So don't turn away now, I am turning in revolution.  These are the scars that silence carved on me..."

Gravity - Vienna Teng (Cover)

Julia Slepenkova's voice is velvety and sublime.  And this is one of my favourite childhood songs.  This was a lovely, cathartic experience.

Recorded from opposite ends of the world.  Novosibirsk has never felt closer to Sydney. :)

"Now I'm standing here, my heart's so full I can't explain..."

When You Believe (from "The Prince of Egypt") - Julia and Wei

Love, the midget, the stripper, Wayne the snake and Mrs Jamie Wellerstein, that's me!

A Summer In Ohio (from the Last 5 Years)

Julia Slepenkova, piano and mezzo soprano
Wei Jiang, soprano

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Clusters of crocus
Purple and gold
Blankets of pansies
Out from the cold
Lilies and iris
Safe from the chill
Safe in my garden
Snowdrops so still

Come to my garden nestled in the hill
There I'll keep you safe beside me
Come to my garden, rest there in my arms
There I'll see you safely grown and on your way

Stay there in the garden
Where love grows free and wild
Come to my garden
Come, sweet child

Lift me up and lead me to the garden
Where life begins anew
Where I'll find you
And I'll find you love me too

Lift me up and lead me to the garden
(Come to my garden)
Where life begins anew
(Rest there in my arms)
Where I'll tell you, where I'll show you
(There I'll see you safely grown)
A new life, a new life
(And on your way)

I shall see you in my garden
Where spring will come and stay
(Where love grows free and wild)
Lift me up and lead me to the garden
(Come to my garden)
Come, sweet day

The Secret Garden Project

Singing at the piano, late at night, is one of the constants in my life.

Once Upon Another Time (from Love Never Dies)

A good friend introduced me to this song a couple of years back.  The simplicity and honesty of it enchanted me.  Then, after hearing him sing it again today, I sat at the piano and this came out.

Mary, Did You Know? (Mark Lowry and Buddy Greene)

"And I will be like mother Mary, with the power in my veins.  To believe in all the things I've yet to be."

Jason Robert Brown - Christmas Lullaby

Recorded live at City Recital Hall, Angel Place
Saturday 19th March 2016
Broadcast on ABC Classic FM Tuesday 12th April 2016

With Sydney Chamber Choir
Conducted by Richard Gill

Dulcissime (Soprano Solo) - from Carmina Burana

Recorded at home one rainy day at the piano.

[so anyway]

So anyway I'm leaving
I thought you'd like to know
Your faithful come-what-may
But clearly I can't stay
We'd both go mad that way
So here I go
And anyway I'm leaving
I guess that you can see
I'll try this on my own
A life I've never known
I'll face the dread alone
But I'll be free

With you always beside me
To catch me when I fall
I'd never get to know the feel
Of solid ground at all
With you always believing
That we can still come through
It makes me feel the fool
To know that it's not true

What doctors call dysfunction
We tried to call romance
And true it's quite a trick
To tell the dancers from the dance
But rather than let chance take me
I'll take a chance
I'll take a chance on leaving
It's that or stay and die
I loved you once and though
You love me still I know
It's time for me to fly
I loved you once and though
I love you still I know
It's time for me to go
And so, goodbye

Book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Music by Tom Kitt

Wei Jiang

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