Scenes From Luxembourg

[kalospiano]

"Cents, panorama de Clausen au coucher du soleil", the first piece of my suite "Scenes From Luxembourg", which will contain eight pieces in total, inspired by scenes and moments experienced in the city where I've been living for the last ten years.

[kalospiano]

"La Petrusse et l'Alzette", the second piece from this collection, inspired by the two small rivers crossing the city.

[kalospiano]

third piece from this collection, five more to go:

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fourth piece from this collection, halfway there to the end.

[kalospiano]

"Dans les rues du centre", fifth piece from my piano solo suite "Scenes From Luxembourg", three more to go.

[anacrusis]

Sorry to see you haven't gotten any comments yet, these are very charming little compositions  Thanks for sharing!

[kalospiano]

Sorry to see you haven't gotten any comments yet, these are very charming little compositions  Thanks for sharing!

oh, well, I'm actually quite used to it plus sometimes people check the music even if they don't have the time to comment - at least I know I do.
Thank you very much for listening!

[justapianist]

Really great set! I loved the second piece best, the rubato arpeggios paint a vivid image of waves splashing around a deep blue river. 

[kalospiano]

Thank you so much justapianist!

[kalospiano]

sixth piece:

[lelle]

I these are cool, but I'd love to hear a live rendition! I believe these are midi playback from the sheet music program?

[kalospiano]

I these are cool, but I'd love to hear a live rendition! I believe these are midi playback from the sheet music program?

the first few ones were recorded measure by measure on a digital piano in bluetooth connection with GarageBand. Starting from the sixth one I've decided to simply take the midi from my composition file in Musescore and put it in GarageBand where I can change it a bit and improve on a few aspects, even though the quality of the sound of course is not like the real thing. This allows me to upload music much faster and not to worry about the performance aspect of it. Still, just as you said, I'd wish to hear a live rendition and I hope I'll find a decent pianist one day who'll agree to perform these.

Here's "Kirchberg", the seventh piece, where I experimented with quartal harmony and rhythmic displacement.

And here's "Le soir tombe sur le parc de Cessange", the eighth and final piece.

This finally concludes this collection. I'll probably post two more videos in this thread by the end of April / beginning of May: one dedicated to a selection of these pieces played (still by GarageBand) with a Rhodes keyboard, which I thought really suits some of this music, and one simply presenting the full suite while showing videos of the Luxembourgish landscapes corresponding to each piece.

[kalospiano]

Here's five selected pieces that I thought sounded well with a Rhodes piano effect, plus a few pictures from Luxembourg.

Next video, which will also be the very last one, will be the whole set of pieces accompanying a few videos of the city.

[kalospiano]

here is the final video of the full suite, played on the background of images filmed in each Luxembourgish location corresponding to the title of each piece:

and here's a video of the last piece of the suite played live at a public piano in Luxembourg today:

This finally concludes this whole Luxembourgish project. Thanks to all of you who took the time to listen to my music.