Prelude and Nocturne

[pianowolfi]

Hi friends, it's been a while! 

Just today I thought I might share two improvisations from January this year. I am planning to write them down and edit them, I thought they might fit quite nicely for a Summer Barbecue party with concert that we're going to have on July 5th.

[ted]

Good to see you back and still improvising, Wolfi; I was beginning to think you had expired. Your improvisations, unlike mine, involve a great deal of conscious thought, structure and logical process, proving again that there are as many ways to improvise as there are improvisers.

The nocturne has some very evocative harmonic changes. In more than one place I thought I was listening to the alap of a raga. Nocturne of the Ganges perhaps ? The prelude seemed more clearly recorded for some reason. Or were you using a lot of una corda in the nocturne ?

Do you naturally tend to remember what you improvise or do you pick them up from recordings to write them out ? Commendable ability either way, quite beyond me I'm afraid.

[pianowolfi]

Hi Ted thank you so much for listening and commenting! I believe that will never stop to improvise!
Usually I use Amazing Slow downer to write things out, but it still needs a good deal of practice and repeated listening. And I'd be completely lost without my aural training. Nocturne of the Ganges? Splendid idea! 

[furtwaengler]

I really and truly miss both your music and your thoughts, and am very glad to see you visiting and sharing again. How are all your projects going?

This is definitely and unmistakably your music and your voice. Just because I am by nature a cross-referencer I will say I heard what may be an unconscious reference to Rachmaninov's 1st Sonata at the end of the prelude. Do you like that piece? 

I need to wade in the waters of the nocturne for awhile. So great to have you back!

[pianowolfi]

Hi Furtwängler, thank you so much!   Yeah it's good to be back. I am often exhausted, and I have so much to do that I just had basically no capacity to post a lot. Yeah I hear that there is definitely a reference to Rachmaninoff at the end of the Prelude. My projects are huge and therefore growing slowly but steadily, every once in a while I get into "dramatic" crisises, but hey that belongs to the journey, doesn't it?

I thought I might add a little encore that I rediscovered yesterday, while thinking of Ted's comment about Ragas. This one sounds a lot like a raga, I called it "Oriental sketch".