We had a brilliant concert last week. This is my arrangement/direction of The Huron Carol — it was in the second half of a concert with a lot of small children soo it’s also got a fair amount of background noise especially at the start, but I hope you enjoy anyway:)
This arrangement is one that’s available to buy on SMP press…
Orchestral piece based on a Polish folk song, Mój Wionecku z Barwinecku
I was inspired by Weinberg’s pieces on Polish folk themes 🙂
Periwinkle wreath, I had thee hung
on a wooden peg in the cottage wall
When people came and took thee down
Leap up, vine, climb higher
Climb aloft, poor thing
Wreath of seven herbs, I had thee hidden
for wedding time in a casket new
When people came and took thee away
This is a sort of an arrangement? or a “little fantasia on..”? (SPOT THE TUNE. It isn’t very hidden.) It’s not a very danceable Mazurka anymore I’m fraid! (Here is a more normal/upbeat performance.)
What if FFVI’s Edgar and Sabin’s Figaro Castle/Coin Song in the style of Lord of the Rings, particularly The King of the Golden Hall?
Bit of a self-indulgent film orchestration exercise 😀 With a little of Terra’s Theme in there too. The instrument is a Hardanger fiddle (hardingfele), though I’m afraid I haven’t worried about writing particularly idiomatically for it.
The opening theme to Yuri!!! on Ice, on piano and vox
I feel like I’ve been very timid lately and that’s a shame, because this was from 2010 and Terra’s Theme (plus some other bits) in the style of the Moulin Rouge tango. Never finished alas, but I was clearly having so much fun here.
I said I was doing it….
Piano + vocal MASHUP of ‘Tomorrow’ (Gianluca Bezzina / MALTA EUROVISION) and ‘Hey Soul Sister’ (Train).