Piano Duo - Dark Places

Very interesting style! it sort of reminds of oceans, water. sort of sailing in a heavenly ocean that is. well done!

Very good piece. I really enjoyed it. The way you tie in the main themes to each of the three movements was very creative. That being said, I thought sometimes you were a little heavy on using those theme, and I kinda felt like you kept beating us over and over again with those themes. Not necessarily a bad thing.

Let me so though, I really love the first movement. I think it is just brilliant. I love the harmony and the way you treat both pianos.

Wow!!nice piece.This is really beautiful.I love it which is gorgeous,interesting and superb....Thank you for your excellent responses.I really enjoyed it.:cool:

Wow!!nice piece.This is really beautiful.I love it which is gorgeous,interesting and superb....Thank you for your excellent responses.I really enjoyed it.:cool:

Welcome to the forums Alice :) This piece is really cool... I enjoyed it a LOT Well done! great job!

Thanks for bringing this thread back up, never saw it before. Brilliant piece, beautiful and very enjoyable, well done. :thumbsup:

I will try to play it ..

....a very cool piece

No offense to the general consensus but I don't think this piece is that brilliant. I do consider it a well composed and extremely tight (structurally) pieced and you create some wonderful sonorities. Yet it doesn't grab me. I think the transmutation of the opening arpeggio figure goes on too long for my taste. Also the chordal melody is quite gorgeous however I would have preferred a move away from the impressionistic harmonies. Sometimes i think we are ready to go into Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand - fortunately you handle the harmonies well - i just think your harmonic scope is too narrow.

Of course, I am not a big fan of minimalistic influenced piano music - especially with late Impressionistic elements.

Now the use of pedals i think is the most interesting part of this piece - bravo on that especially.

Since this is nearly a year old or more I wonder nightscape what are you up to now?

Enchantment.

That's all I can say.

really great work! :D

this is amazing!

Great and effective use of rhythm.

beautifull harmonies.

hearing this, I want to be in Dark places. it's too good ;)

it reminds me in a way of poulenc. After the mp3 was finished I was expecting a huge applause, that missing was the only clue it was an computer generated recording...

No offense to the general consensus but I don't think this piece is that brilliant. I do consider it a well composed and extremely tight (structurally) pieced and you create some wonderful sonorities. Yet it doesn't grab me. I think the transmutation of the opening arpeggio figure goes on too long for my taste. Also the chordal melody is quite gorgeous however I would have preferred a move away from the impressionistic harmonies. Sometimes i think we are ready to go into Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand - fortunately you handle the harmonies well - i just think your harmonic scope is too narrow.

Of course, I am not a big fan of minimalistic influenced piano music - especially with late Impressionistic elements.

Now the use of pedals i think is the most interesting part of this piece - bravo on that especially.

Since this is nearly a year old or more I wonder nightscape what are you up to now?

Nightscape is at Peabody for grad studies, if I remember correctly.

thanks - lucky dog - peabody is an awesome place and I met some Oberlin conservatory students who taught there in the early 90's.

This is a quite amazing piece. Would you be willing to send me a download link so I can have it on my iPod? It's brilliant.

Ummm, I'm sorry to tell you guys, but the member who posted this is now inactive :(

Yeah duh.

Yeah duh.

:huh:

he's too busy in real life xD

That sucks. Were can I get permission to perform this work then?

This is absolutely amazing :]

I would love permission to perform this!

Also, I would love to arrange this for a mallet ensemble.

Something along the lines of 2 marimbas, 2 vibraphones, glockenspiel, crotales, chimes, timpani, some auxiliary stuff.

Thank you all, for this positive feedback. It's nice to know that my efforts are well recieved!

And to all of you who would venture to write for two pianos - please do so! It is one of the most exciting chamber ensembles to write for.

Imagine the possibilities of writing for solo piano.... doubled!

At the moment, I am exploring the use of this ensemble with additional instruments. I am currently writing a piece for two pianos and two vibraphones. A great piece that uses two pianos plus other instruments is the Bartok sonata for two pianos and percussion, which I would recommend checking out if you haven't heard it. I believe there are several recordings on Youtube.

Dialogue between pianos: masterful,

Rhythmic interest: superb

Melodic interest: exceptional

Harmonic interest: still a little immature.

This piece was great that even the general harmonic immaturity didn't really detract from the piece all that much.

Definitely a potential ASCAP winner.

You should try to write a fourth movement IMO. Sounds like someone else follows at the end but it never happens.

This was absolutely fantastic and I enjoyed listening to every minute.

This was absolutely fantastic and I enjoyed listening to every minute.

Agreed. :)