Improvised paraphrase on a Saint-Saens aria

[ronde_des_sylphes]

More exactly, improvised in the sense that I am improvising elaborations on a score reduction..

[visitor]

this pleases me.

much prefer to listen and watch your artistry,  when I try it , this is pretty much the result
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[ronde_des_sylphes]

Haha!

I suppose this improvisation is the first step towards constructing a legit composition.. the Bacchanale from the same opera might be a worthwhile addition.

[ted]

Breathtakingly beautiful Andrew, mostly because of what you do not do. With a truly powerful melody the spectre of gilding the lily, almost irrestistible to a good technique and imagination, surely looms at each phrase.

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Thanks ted, I think I've been fairly literal in the sense that I've largely kept to what is in the music, and improvisationally restrained in that I've whilst I've added a fair amount of embellishment, I've specifically tried to correlate the level and nature of embellishment to how impassioned the aria has become at that point.