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Three piano pieces

Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 6:39 pm
by jeanette_c
Hey hey, I've just uploaded some piano music of mixed origin. :)
The first is Cloud burst (no relations :) )
https://youtu.be/xraOuqWUdKQ
It's a mostly dark piano impression going from the very experimental beginning into a quiet jazzy harmony.
The second is Magda:
https://youtu.be/DaMkhhYYblc
This is a song about a girl I met at a party and only talked to for a few minutes. I never met her again. I wrote this song to express my gratitudde for her quiet kindness and unreserved acceptance. This piece contains a small fugue in the middle. The other special feature is the arrangement with effects, inspired by - if not reaching the level of - Gleen Gould, when he got involved in mixing some of Sibelius piano works. Instead of adding instruments, I tried to emphasize moments and set sections apart from each other by rooms and effects.
The last song is Quaint and picturesque:
https://youtu.be/wb0cba1qU78
This, truly quaint and picturesque, piece is my interpretation of a very beautiful, sunny morning in Yorkshire, everyone still asleep, even the cat on the piano stool. :)
I hope you can find something to enjoy in this mixed bunch.
Best wishes, Jeanette

Re: Three piano pieces

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2020 4:11 am
by Tenaba
I just listened to these tracks. I haven't listened to a lot of solo piano music, but I like your playing. I think I like the "Quaint and pictureseque" track the best. There's a cool thing you did at around 0:26, with the major arpeggio to the tri-tone-ish thing, which I thought was done smoothly. There's also something similarly interesting in Magda at around 4:00. Impressive stuff! :)

Re: Three piano pieces

Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 8:20 am
by Rainmak3r
I'm not a fan of piano solo music either (I must have been burned by that awful Einaudi concert I had to attend several years ago :mrgreen: ), but I did enjoy your compositions: playing keyboards and playing the piano is not the same thing, and you definitely demonstrated you can do both, great feeling! I liked "Quaint and picturesque" the most too, even though the first two pieces reminded me of Tchaikovski's "The Seasons" (the gorgeous "October" comes to mind).

Re: Three piano pieces

Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2020 9:30 pm
by jeanette_c
Thank you for the lovely feedback. It's very encouraging to know that these pieces appeared to bridge the odd genre gap. :)
Thanks!