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*Click* on TITLE area for a particular ‘track’ to get descriptions and info on choices made in this music along with ability to stream the full piece if you click on “Play direct from andrys” near the top.
If you, instead click on the little arrow sign before an mp3 title, you hear only a 30-sec sample.
To download a full mp3 that you want, you click on “free download” on this page.
This album includes some favorite and also less-known classical works for piano, non-virtuoso and more reflective.
What they have in common, besides the beauty of the writing, is a nocturnal quality, dream-like in mood and best heard when looking for something more interior.
Interesting inner-voice writing, gorgeous melodies, and some unexpected progressions are key elements of these pieces that have been enjoyed by 150 to 200 years of listeners.
Chopin’s metronome marking for Nocturne No. 8 in Db is an example. Tthe interpretation’s an exploration of Chopin’s indicated tempo, which is still faster than the one taken here, which is somewhere in between the usual slower tempo and Chopin’s marking.
This Nocturne cut was used in a short-film entry that is a homage to silent-movie style, at the Cardiff Screen Festival Nov 2005, and was uploaded at YouTube by Reaction Films. The ‘score’ is of course Chopin’s!, though the Youtube info is for the sound-source.
Please feel free to contact andrys1@yahoo.com if you have any questions.
If you, instead click on the little arrow sign before an mp3 title, you hear only a 30-sec sample.
To download a full mp3 that you want, you click on “free download” on this page.
This album includes some favorite and also less-known classical works for piano, non-virtuoso and more reflective.
What they have in common, besides the beauty of the writing, is a nocturnal quality, dream-like in mood and best heard when looking for something more interior.
Interesting inner-voice writing, gorgeous melodies, and some unexpected progressions are key elements of these pieces that have been enjoyed by 150 to 200 years of listeners.
Chopin’s metronome marking for Nocturne No. 8 in Db is an example. Tthe interpretation’s an exploration of Chopin’s indicated tempo, which is still faster than the one taken here, which is somewhere in between the usual slower tempo and Chopin’s marking.
This Nocturne cut was used in a short-film entry that is a homage to silent-movie style, at the Cardiff Screen Festival Nov 2005, and was uploaded at YouTube by Reaction Films. The ‘score’ is of course Chopin’s!, though the Youtube info is for the sound-source.
Please feel free to contact andrys1@yahoo.com if you have any questions.
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emptynessdancin Thank you Andrys so much for sharing these delighful classical piano pieces. Enjoying them already on my media player.
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