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    • Krisp
      Etats (baryton & piano)

      By Krisp Ā· Posted

      Thank you, Henry, for your careful listening. Yes, youā€™ve pinpointed exactly what Iā€™ve tried to do ā€” and what lies at the heart of my exploration through these Laforgue settings: to stay on the edge. On the edge of tonal harmony, of expected progressions, of almost conventional paths ā€” but always trying to veer off, to wander. The same applies to expression: sometimes as simple as possible, sometimes ambiguous, sometimes hidden. Iā€™m trying to find that forestā€™s edge where Laforgue leads us with his poetry, into his moonlit twilights and his lost loves ā€” which I know all too well. You mention Schubert ā€” of course, and your ear is sharp. I couldnā€™t deny it. Once you enter these borderlands, how could you not have Schubert in mind? Again, thank you, Henry ā€” your sensitive listening is a true gift that brings light to my moonlit paths.  
    • Valerio DallaRagione
      Piano album

      By Valerio DallaRagione Ā· Posted

      Hi Henry, thank you for listening and replying. It is indeed "Bad Sallad", a pun on "Sad Ballad" because, as you pointed out, there's a bit of mixing things that shouldn't belong together (the English & American anthems, reharmonized and thrown in between movements of a sad waltz). So, from a sad ballad it ends up being an unusual salad of themes šŸ™‚"Bad Sallad". The album is generally quite humurous, on the nonsensical side
    • Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
      Piano Sonata no.3 in C-sharp minor, Third Movement, Allegro agitato

      By Henry Ng Tsz Kiu Ā· Posted

      Hi Mike! Lemme reply in bullet points too haha. Yup it's the first thing I think for the third movement to build the connection between movements. Yup especially the Revolutionary-etude like accompaniment! I quite like the section. Yup it's just a fortituous product when I was taking a bus but it works surprisingly! Oh actually I haven't linked there with Rach but more with Prokofiev! I think 9:32 is more Rachmaninoffian for me! It's a sudden thought and I once was afraid whether it will break the coherence of the piece, but I just let it remain because I love the theme so much. And it's boring to have right hand playing melody all the time so I invite the left hand here too. It IS indeed brutal and took me a lot of time to practice this section alone, but I absolutely love this part! And I feel very happy to be able to play this part out! Yup I deliberately have the juxtaposition here to represent how contradicted I was then. Yeah I like that part too especially the Sacratisco passage. Yeah I quote the 2nd movement melody there again to try to save myself from tragedy, but obviously it's futile and I sadistically love it muahahaha. Yup I love that too, as the tragedy is not preventable and I must admit that myself. Thx! I love that you love the whole Sonata!!! Henry
    • Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
      Piano Sonata no.3 in C-sharp minor, Third Movement, Allegro agitato

      By Henry Ng Tsz Kiu Ā· Posted

      Hi Alex! Haha yeah who knows why I put the bluesy section into the otherwise Beethovanian and Chopinistic movement! I like the bluesy section myself too, it really does sound nihilistic. Hahaha! Thx for commenting! Henry
    • Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
      Aurora (Ancient Greece inspiration)

      By Henry Ng Tsz Kiu Ā· Posted

      Hi @Luis HernƔndez! Sorry for my late reply. Very interesting to use the constructed Greek scale to compose. It sounds somewhat microtonal for me in some places. And it does sound impressionistic! Thx for sharing! Henry
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