Hallo, I just wrote these variations on a beautiful early Beethoven piano draft. Please share with me your thoughts. Till next week I may present to you also the notes ...
https://www.gerdprengel.de/Kafka125_variations.mp3
Especially the second last -
Read more…Hi, I would be very grateful, if you could give me your thoughts on this orchestration of an uncompleted draft by Mahler for a Scherzo:
Gerd
Read more…Hi, for the first time I work on a choir piece, based on a most melodic Beethoven cantata fragment - a version for choir and piano (the first 45 seconds and interlude at 1:22 - 45 by Beethoven) and a version with orchestra - what do you think? Are t
Read more…Hi, I'd like to share with you my new variations for piano again on a sketched beautiful and rather melancholic Beethoven tune from 1820. Formerly I have made already an orchestration of that theme.
https://youtu.be/t2xFOj5MOJo?si=9hZC7xt_SbZXbXVX
Read more…Hi, I'd like to present to you my new overture on the fascinating notes B-A-C-H, inspired by some sketches by Beethoven . Please read the remarks in the video description ... I hope you will enjoy it:
https://youtu.be/2jF1CNsXj7c?si=JJqqvOEzGBcEJw28
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Read more…May I introduce you to my latest realisation of some marvelous Beethoven sketches ? At the end there is a Scherzo which I think is one of Beethoven's best!
Can you imagine this to be done from these original sketches?
--> https://youtu.be/BVB_Jmak2Do?
Read more…Last year I wrote this elegy but was not satisfied with the slow strings from NotePerformer. Now I discovered that the slow strings from musescore 4 are much more beautiful. What do you think of this work (and the recording): https://youtu.be/H2VmrG
Read more…Who guesses the original composer/work of my new ochestration? --> https://gerdprengel.de/orch.mp3 Any remarks about this orchestration I would appreciate before I create a YT Video with the score ...
Gerd
Hi, I need your help! As you may know I completed Mendelssohn's wonderful fragmentary 6th symphony a few years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0dFe2nBn_s&t=148s
Now somebody else said I should do a new recording with more reverb and a better mixi
Read more…I am not sure whether I presented this little piano elegy which I wrote in the early summer in the former forum, so here it is:
https://youtu.be/moe9nT3NGNw?si=QAGuvAQn2Q6GI4do
It starts very melancholically, then a more vived middle part follows and i
Read more…Recently I am active mostly in orchestrating Beethoven's wonderful counterpoint studies, for example these splendid and yet so unknown TripleFugues:
https://youtu.be/gQqM9iiOWMs?si=J1eeN5z2UDBppb8m ...
The notes in the video contain only the original
Read more…My biggest theme this summer was the " completion" of Schuberts Unfinished symphony on the basis of his sketches!! Here the Scherzo with an orchestration of the sketched main part and a new composition of the Trio with Schubert's sketched melody:
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