Three Pieces for Orchestra - Jeremy Ricketson

[Nightscape]

1. "Ruins of a Stone Fortress"
2. "Sunset"
3. "Resting Place"

[greyrune]

it's very tranquil, i like it.  I have to say i phased out of it slightly half way through on the first listen.  That's probably good though, i take it you're looking for the calming atmospheric type of thing, if so you captured it very well.

[ted]

I rather liked these, especially the first one. I'm not sure I would use the word tranquil to describe them though; there is something dark, something spectral, something nasty in the woodshed, so to speak, which association I find most attractive.

I listen to a lot of orchestral stuff and these days I often think of my playing as orchestral - not perhaps in my old pieces, such as the one I posted, but certainly in improvisation and more recent compositions. It might not be every pianist's cup of tea to think that way but I've acquired the habit over the years. It seems to give my creative impulse a kick.

Keep writing these orchestral pieces, Jeremy - there are some nice things in them.

[Derek]

These are really cool Jeremy! I think you should apply at Squaresoft to be a composer for video games...it seems to me you must be influenced by the style of music in such games as Final Fantasy, The Legend of Zelda, and others. Some of the harmonies in the first one sounded like the dungeon music from Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past.