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It's all Greek! Brand new recording for full orchestra, piano and folk intruments, all original tunes inspired by my days playing Greek music. Hope to lift your Summer spirits. Opa! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OVxAyWLRBc

I like this one very much. It's stylistic 'wanderings' (as I see them) seem to have many influences - many of the obvious ones but I also hear things in some phrases that are similar to old-time fiddle music. This is what jumped out at me during the first 8 bars or so. And then you switch gears a bit a few times; that type of process can be rather jarring if not brought off well but that is not the case here. I'm not personally so concerned at identifying chord selections and progressions in things I hear but the way the last chords echo the first ones is very effective.

Hello again! I made this piece about a month or two ago. I had just watched Spirited Away and got hooked on the song "The Dragon Boy". I remade it in GarageBand, and then decided to make my own song inspired by it. I tried to have an Asian feel to it, using the koto and erhu. My favorite part of it is the marimba. (I wish there was a timpani sound in Garageband...) Here is a link to The Dragon Boy on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mar4kgUpsg

Despite starting differently, in a different key (iirc) and measure and having clear contrasting parts I can tell that your improvisation has some degree of similarity with the previous one (which is of course normal). I believe I liked this one more: it has in my opinion a better connection between different improvisation passages and plays better with contrasts. The end is lovely. Thank you for sharing this!!

Not my kind of music, but I appreciate some tension you create in some parts, the lento section and the ending bars that imitate the first ones of the piece. The human interpretation gives it some life of course. Is there any particular reason why you called it sonatina? Just out of curiosity. Kind regards!!