A pair of contrasting improvisations

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Elves at play, and something more conventionally romantic in nature.

[ted]

I like the second very much. It has the same sentiment and uses the same playing forms as Chaminade’s “Elevation”, a piece I find compelling for reasons I cannot fathom. Unintentional similarity aside I conjecture that you have been extending your improvisational vocabulary during lockdown as there is a quality there I haven’t heard from you before and the whole thing hangs together very well.

[ronde_des_sylphes]

I checked out the Chaminade and see what you mean! I'd never heard it before, but a very similar opening, and the repeated chords are used in the same kind of way.

I've definitely been playing around with different styles and not just the mock-operatic-paraphrase one.