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"I would say all my works are Romantic in some way, though the style varies considerably and I think those that pay lip service to Faure are perhaps more romantic than some others. The coda of the first movement (and probably the secondary theme in…"
Having finally acquired the last of the new VSL solo strings, I lost no time in putting them to work and the result was a piano quintet which I completed in the, for me, record fast time of ten days for a piece of this length. The great 2nd quintet…
"since your Nonet, I've come to expect great things from you and this both mysterious and haunting latest piece doesn't disappoint. Love the microtones around 6'15"!"
"that's very odd -- the paper icon does show on the Latest Works page here without any problem on Firefox. But the piece is also listed under Vocal works so maybe try that if you're still having problems -- not that there's anything much to read as…"
"Yes -- the Russian is the same used by DSCH (the transliteration is in fact quite phonetic so it wasn't too hard to put into Wordbuilder but of course you can only make out part of the text with that software at best). As for the order, did you not…"
"the main changes to the new version -- apart from the new instruments -- are the increased use of dynamic contrasts and vibrato. I tried to make the rendering more lifelike, though there is still a good deal more which could be done in this…"
"yes, I thought the Holbergen repeats were rather excessive in context as we probably have no idea how many Beethoven would have wanted if he'd decided this work was worth keeping.
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"I actually found this piece a good deal of fun -- and found both the instrumentation and tempi more to my taste than Holbergen so well done on that (the horrible NotePerfomer string tone doesn't get in the way too much in something as lively as…"
"No rush, Liz -- obviously your move has priority! Hope it's going well?
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"Obviously the tiny number of people still participating here either haven't seen this or didn't like it. But anyway, the VSL solo strings are now complete and I wasted no time in updating and revising this work which definitely now has a more…"
A few years ago I did a setting of the Apollinaire poem "Le Suicidé" in the Russian translation used by Shostakovich in his 14th symphony. I then decided to add another two of his poems to make a set. There is certainly an influence of the Russian…
"Liz -- true gliss with most sample libraries which support it at all, including VSL, is limited to one octave pitch bend and your viola leap is far more than that. As I've set both the VSL preset and the Expression map to enable 12 step (one octave)…"
"I plan to come back to more of Per's symphonies when I get back from holiday -- off tomorrow -- but I thought I'd listen to that one as it's his best known. I was aware that you'd done some work for him (you mentioned that already on another…"
"thanks for listening, Stephen. It's interesting that you find the endings abrupt as this was exactly Liz's initial reaction as well. And indeed I slightly changed one or two of them but now I'm happy enough -- they're meant to leave things a bit in…"
"this is a rather ironic comment about the rendering as it is fact already using NotePerformer and Liz's dissatisfaction with that is leading her to create a new version with the VSL Studio solo strings which I've been helping her with. But no doubt…"
"good to hear from you again on the forum, Ollie and I'm very grateful for your kind and detailed analysis -- particularly the Willy Wonka comparison which was rather amusing. I suspect I would replace the despairing depth of Wagner with Bruckner --…"
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you had given me some very valuable feedback on a earlier orchestral work, particularly noting the absence of a cohesive theme. I have since decided to break the piece up into a full length symphony and in this context, I'd appreciate your comments about how the first movement sounds.
Thanks!
https://composersforum.ning.com/blog/please-critique-the-first-move...