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  • Tiziano Palazzotti October 10, 2022 at 7:15pm

     I really like the classical style, the form i think it's great, the mood in general feels to me between the calm and the mysterious, howevere to me it's not very clear the direction of the whole piece. It seems like it is a soundrack of a film that the listener doesn't know nothing about, and this creates more sense of mistery. Each note is a surprise, but never out of place

    • Asaad Hamzy > Tiziano Palazzotti October 11, 2022 at 5:26pm

      Thanks Tiziano! Appreciate your listening and comment, I am glad you felt it that way. 

  • Javier Medina December 6, 2022 at 5:27pm

    Very interesting sonorities. I enjoyed it.

    • Asaad Hamzy > Javier Medina December 10, 2022 at 8:06am

      Thank you Javier, glad you enjoyed it. 

  • David Owen December 6, 2022 at 8:32pm

    It's immediately obvious that there is a master at work here. The soundworld is not entirely unfamiliar but nevertheless unique and the musical language powerful yet not so easy to assimilate at first hearing. I'm going to listen to this several times to try and get to know it as well as possible. Perhaps your cultural influences including Syrian and Russian are at play here. Would it be possible to provide some programme notes for the work - there's nothing on YouTube and I can't get much info on your website either?

    The rendering is incidentally a showcase for VSL -- it's the sort of music which works very well with the particular slightly cool and analytical nature of the library and you've done an excellent job here.

    • Asaad Hamzy > David Owen December 10, 2022 at 8:05am

      Thanks David for listening. 

      For me it was always about finding my own language and style.

      Beethoven's Symphonies, and the construction of classical period forms was a main inspiration for me. When it comes to cultural influences, there is definitely some natural influence. 

      The Symphony starts with short theme, followed by sonata form, fast theme (theme A) a slow theme (theme B) and then a development, After development section, it is a new slow theme( as a second movement instead of going back to theme A as in traditional form) followed by theme and variations. After, I did a reverse, the slow movement, theme A, to finally finnish with the same intro theme.

      Yes, VSL is great.

      • David Owen > Asaad Hamzy December 10, 2022 at 10:01am

        thanks for these pointers, Asaad. I'll listen again with them in mind.

         

  • Michael Lofting December 11, 2022 at 7:02am

    Hi Asaad.
    Just listening as I am writing this.

    I like the development and detail in this work.

    My only comment is I don't feel this is a symphony. It strikes me as being about something that I can't quite decide on.. I could easily see this as a ballet about some issue that would make sense of the dramatic outbursts.

     

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