Symphony no. 2, excerpts

These are two excerpts from my Symphony no. 2. Both are taken from somewhere inside the work, so that would be the cause to any inconsistence: These two excerpts are not made to sound like stand alone pieces.The first excerpt represents the second and the first subject group (in this order). This is place in the work, where the two subjects show their inner self. Previously, during the standard exposition, they have shown only how they represent themselves from the outside. This is how they really feel and what are their real intents for the coming events within the work.The second excerpt is a short reminiscence of all most important motives that occurred within the work, at its point.The samples are recorded on SB Live! with Creative's 8MB SoundFont.

Symphony no. 2, excerpts

It certainly is quite desirable to listen to the entire work. Certainly, samples are not that nice, but the music sounds promising...

Question: Why post samples and not the whole work? Are you planning on selling it?

But anyways, as far as the first sample goes, I like the legato feel of the winds. Beautiful melody, and then the darker bass comes in and changes the mood. Nice development there, too. I can tell your style is partially based on classical techniques, but also very modern.

Second excerpt: I like the way you move from different themes and phrases. Your music seems to flow nicely, with occasional unexpected twists. Other than the standard strings (vlns, vla, cello, c , brass (f horn, tpt, trb, tuba(?)), and winds(fl, cl, ob, bsn,) what instruments do you have in your score? {might be forgetting some atm} I can hear a piano, but I can't tell exactly what else is playing because of the quality of your samples.

But thanks for posting!

-MF

Thank you all for taking time to listen and comment. :)

I agree completely that most of the samples I use have very low quality. The both excerpts were recorded at least six years ago, and I do not have much better samples even today. A thing that can help overcoming that obstacle is to imagine how it all would sound with a real orchestra. I do have feeling good samples would be a real boost for the entire work.

I won't post the whole work yet. It is not finished in the first place. Secondly, this work is intended to be much larger than standard symphonies. I tried to evolve and deeply explain the both subject groups before facing them in the development section. At this time point, I could post only the 'exposition' and the very beginning of development, which takes almost 16 minutes.

> what instruments do you have in your score?

On the samples posted there are only classical instruments. Strings (harp, vlns I/II, vlas, cellos, dbasses), woodwinds (piccolo, flutes, clarinets, oboes, en. horn, bassoons), brass (fr. horns, trumpets, trombones, tuba), acoustic guitars, organ and percussion (timpani, cymbals). There are also a harpsichord and a piano. They never play at the same time, but are both needed at certain parts of the work.

Hello here again, guys. I just wanted to inform you that I visualized there excerpts with MAMPlayer and uploaded them to youtube.

The second vid got desynchronized somehow from its half. There was no way of making myself to record the vid again. :)

Ok, well. I'd love to give a review of this. I will say though, that it's very hard to give an analysis of this work without a score. Sound samples, while being good for some genres, don't really give a clear idea (ears can be misleading, especially when you have many instruments playing simultaneously.