Thanatos (from NEON GENESIS EVANGELION)

Well, it's been a while since I was on this site. I haven't written music in a couple years, but I've been playing piano in church so I'm not totally out of practice. Decided to hop back into the wonderful world of composition with something easy, so I did an arrangement of something instead of trying for an original work. I had two different versions of this theme in mind when I adapted it for piano. I'm including them both below in case anyone wants to hear what material I was working with. I'm looking forward to posting more on this site and hearing/reviewing as well. I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed listening to the music that gets posted here!

(EDIT: Check the bottom of the post for the score if you're so inclined!)

My Piano Arrangement: 

Original Version: 

Symphonic Version:

Edited July 27, 20196 yr by KJthesleepdeprived

Very nice arrangement.  I do wonder if some areas have some playability issues (two examples are measure 27 where it would seem the left hand runs into the right and measure 29 where it would seem one would need a third hand to play the ascending eight note octaves) but I'm not an experienced pianist so you may know better than me.

@bkho Thanks for your comment!

For measure 27, I wanted those three notes to be included because they're in the orchestral version. I put them as octaves so they'd be heard clearly but you're right the two hands do run into eachother, and I hadn't noticed until you pointed it out. I'll have to reevaluate that bit. As far as measure 29, I'm not concerned about the right hand. I have no issues playing that line. It's a leap for sure but since everything in the right hand is in octaves, it isn't too bad. Being able to keep ones hand in the same shape helps with things like that. 

If anything, I thought you'd tell me you were skeptical of the left hand arpeggios in that section. I'm still unsure about them to be honest. I suppose I should also get advice from the other pianists I know. Thanks for the feedback though!