First composition, recorded by a real orchestra.

Hi everybody... I am new to this board.

My name is Morten, i am 18 years old and from Denmark.

Recently i composed this piece for a play we have at my school, and the theme was somekind of egyptian story... - That explaines the massive use of the harmonic minor scale.

Anyway. I'm posting the MIDI-file i got from Sibelius and, the recording we made last week.

The recording went fine (we have 1 hour to record and 3 rehearsels á 1 hour each beforehand), but the orchestra plays badly, and the mix is horrible... way to much percussion and strings are too low...

Anyway, i hope you like it. Its my first composition for orchestra and im really excited about it.

By the way.. I got to conduct it myself.. - Thats the most amazing experience I've ever had. (My first time conducting also!)

MIDI-file (minsønersyg)

REAL recording by a real orchestra conducted by me!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, comment on this!

Regards, Morten

Very interesting piece... the feel was extremely mysterious, perhaps thanks mainly to the piano at the beginning. I enjoyed the "Egyptian" feel, which you accomplished quite well.

My only issue with the piece is that I think you abused the percussion. I know that the recording simply makes it sound more prominent, but I just mean in general, I found that you relied too much on the percussion to drive the music, whereas you don't explore the rest of the orchestra as much as you could have. Other than that I truly enjoyed your piece.

On a side note... The live recording is nice (I'm jealous): it's amazing to actually hear your own music performed live by a full orchestra, let alone with you conducting. Having it recorded is always a plus as well! Congratulations on a job well done.

Thank you very much for your kind words.

The cymbalguy (he played the triangle too) is a joke on this recording.. he plays very bad... (listen to him on the big cymbal before the trumpet theme)

To put you in on this piece.. It's called "My son is sick", and the pharaoe finds out that his son is near dead of an incurable disease. Thats very this piece is being played.

By the way.. The mp3 is mixed and "cutted" together by several recordings, that explains the sudden tempo-changes!

THANKS for your very kind words!

M

I did not like it at first but once full orchestra began I really liked it.

Pretty neat, nice orchestration. Nice coherant melodies that lead in and out to different places.

Egyptian??? seeems Jewish.

Near the end the voices come in to slowly, if you were to speed up the tempo so that it crashes down, then that would be a better effect, which brings me into this: I feel there is always a certain harmony that is holding up a certain passage, I want to see that repetive harmony developed so that it brings the music up, the brass helped greatly with that though. Awesome piece! Good luck to you sir :thumbsup:

Yes it's a brilliant build up and it gets very intruiging when the full orchestra comes in. I liked the way the piano repeated then got faster and stuff. The woodwind wasn't a very nice at the beginning though.

hang on... the mp3 is like a completely different song XD!! The piano is playing a melody, in the midi it was a repeated note. Maybe you were using a different midi channel or something.

Anyway the mp3 is amazing. You're very lucky you got the oppotunity to record your music! My school doesn't even have a single orchestral instrument XP So I'm very happy that you're using this great reasource you've been blessed with.

Thanks for all those kind replies!

I loved every bit of it. We are doing a full recording (audio+video) on a DVD, and if you would like me to, i could rip the scene for you to see me conduct the orchestra? Maybe it will even be a (lot) better recording?!

M