The great success of my "Valses melancoliques" (including the award-winning No. VIII - le desir eternel) encouraged me to continue this musical idea of melancholic valses, resulting in 12 new valses from C minor to B minor, created in a 14 day "composing rush" in April 2013 :-)

Pianist Carlos Marquéz (https://soundcloud.com/cmdigital), whom many of you know for his outstanding piano recordings, was so kind to play some of the "Swans". 
Enjoy his breathtaking performance of this piece!

Carlos played all 10 Valses melancoliques Series I, which you can find on iTunes and many other platforms. Truly can recommend this!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/beneking-10-valses-melancoliques/id600563482

All 12 "Swans" will also be published as an album towards the end of 2013, performed by pianist Danaë Vlasse (https://soundcloud.com/danae-vlasse).
Here is a "Preview" of the first 6 valses: 
https://soundcloud.com/stephan-beneking/preview-valses-melancoliques

The scores for this series you can find here: http://www.beneking.com/swans
The direct link to the booklet with all scores:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4v1JwJiY6oJVURybWNwbURSLUU/edit?usp=sharing


Valses melancoliques I

Valses Melancoliques II - "The Swans" - No. 3 played by Carlos Márquez www.beneking.com

Strauss - Waltz Vienna woods

Drama, mystique intrigue, love - everything that makes up a romantic separation in the old black and white movies.

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Départ Romantique [Re-Recorded October 2015]

Pirates of the caribbean - Piano Accompaniment

Around the Whiskey Jar
Around the Whiskey Jar is a Medley based on 5 traditional Irish tunes (Star of the County down, She moved through the fair, Maurice Manley’s Polka, Down by the Salley Gardens, What should we do with the drunken Sailor). The idea of the composer was to feature some not that popular Irish melodies and to recreate, as much as possible, an Irish Tavern atmosphere. Bodhran drum, Singing parts and Fiddle-like sections are featured in this piece to make the ambiance lively, genuine and wild. Hey !!
https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/20245/en

Around The Whiskey Jar (arr. Ivan Boumans)

The last of the original concertos for five string section in my collection "An Evening At Ulm" and the published sheet music "StringWorks". 

An Evening at Ulm can be found on Bandcamp - https://irminsul.bandcamp.com/album/an-evening-at-ulm-original-music-for-baroque-strings

Sheet music "StringWorks" can be found on Sheet Music Direct
https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/ID_No/1224668/Product.aspx

Concerto No.6 - Lubidrium Deorum

Shigeru Umebayashi - Come Il Vento (Like The Wind)

Happy sound created by James Last
played by Michael Hauber on Steinway B 211

Happy Heart - James Last - Steinway

Arrangement by Nikolaï Clavier https://soundcloud.com/nikola-clavier

H. Zimmer & K. Badelt | Pirates Of The Caribbean - Medley | Violin & Viola - arr. N. Clavier

Zorro's Theme from "The Mask of Zorro" by James Horner | Violin & Piano

Violin: Lelie Cristea
Piano Instrumental Accompaniment: Tamilla Guliyeva
Sound Recording by Arthur Jogerst

James Horner | Zorro's Theme - Violin & Piano

Live performance at Loyola Marymount University (Sacred Heart Chapel)

Pierre Joubert, violin
Daniel Zuluaga, baroque guitar
Ruben Valenzuela, harpsichord

Bach Collegium San Diego

Strauss - Waltz Vienna woods

Zohrab Bauer

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