Baritone & Piano Piece

Hey guys! I had the opportunity to perform a baritone & vocal piece I wrote for my friend recently, and I thought I'd post it on here as well for feedback. I screw up a bit playing the piano part (not the singer), but you get the general gist of it from hearing the performance, I think. I tried to make it so the piano is more active and has a more prominent role in expressing the text than most art songs.

You can hear the MP3 with the link below or in the attachment:

http://www.box.net/shared/875odeizei

& Here's the text:

A drop of rain slid

down the window and I

shattered it with the tip of my

finger.

There are two kinds of gentle:

the soft and the

regretful.

I saw you standing next to my

(sleeping?) form two, three nights

ago--

hard whispers whistled through

the nighted house and

secrets took place,

here and there.

Trust me: I'm hacking through

all these words and images

floating through my brain:

not knowing if

I'm finding a single shred of meaning.

--but there is love and beauty in

this field for sure; fresh and ready

for a muddled harvest.

Kento - Car in the Rain (Baritone & Piano).pdf

Kento Watanabe - Car in the Rain - David Lee (baritone) & Kento Watanabe (piano).mp3

Really sounds great! And very well recorded.

I'm not expert at this genre (piano and voice) but I prefered the piano to the vocal part.

I love the sudden modulation at "a single shred of meaning".

Glad you felt that text painting as well! I really liked using harsh modulations as one way of painting the text. & Thanks for listening.=)

Really sounds great! And very well recorded.

I'm not expert at this genre (piano and voice) but I prefered the piano to the vocal part.

I love the sudden modulation at "a single shred of meaning".

Hi,

I really enjoyed listening to this piece very much. I've recently taken an interest in these kind of songs for solo voice with piano accompaniment and am currently in the middle of writing my own... so I found looking at anothers work really very interesting!

I must agree with how long in that I preferred the piano part to the voice part. I loved the writing of the accompaniment but I think the voice part could have made more use of some of the little melodies hinted at in the accompaniment part to make the two really fit together nicely. Your use of harmony was really lovely and you used a nice chunk of the baritones range to reflect everything. Your choice of harmony was good and really did reflect the words I felt. I particularly liked your contrasting legato and more detached styles in the accompaniment to portray different moods - verrry nice!

I enjoyed listening to this; thank you for posting! Out of curiosity which was written first; the words or the music?

Oscar

Wow this sounds wonderful!

A great live performance. Kudos. :)