October 26, 2025Oct 26 The fifth piece within the group of compositions I had already shared here on YC and have been sharing once again because they had gotten deleted during the renovation of the website in late April-early May 2016, and after a hiatus of a little more than six years (the fourth one having been reposted on July 25, 2019), this is my "Soliloquy for Organ No. 4", Op. 156, composed June 27-29, 2013. As I have previously mentioned regarding these old pieces being reposted, I have been choosing the best ones (in my current opinion) among the 181 previously posted but deleted pieces and reposting them. Here is part of how I had introduced it at the time I originally posted it, on June 30, 2013: "I believe this piece to be one of my grandest musical conceptions, and therefore possibly the greatest piece I have yet composed." Let me here take the opportunity to also put the links of the previous four reposted pieces: 1. Three Fugatos for Harpsichord, Op. 222 (reposted on 28/5/2018): https://www.youngcomposers.com/t36633/three-fugatos-for-harpsichord-op-222-old-deleted-piece-1181/ 2. Three Sententiae for String Quartet, Op. 139 (reposted on 30/7/2018): https://www.youngcomposers.com/t36851/three-sententiae-for-string-quartet-op-139-old-deleted-piece-2181/ 3. Soliloquy for Clarinet No. 5 (Op. 172) (reposted on 11/12/2018): https://www.youngcomposers.com/t37265/soliloquy-for-clarinet-no-5/ 4. Reverie for Double Bass (Op. 25) (reposted on 25/7/2019): https://www.youngcomposers.com/t38143/reverie-for-double-bass-op-25/ Finally, I hope that pieces posted on this website will never again be deleted due to renovation of the website. In addition to many pieces being lost forever (fortunately I had mine all backed up), we will have to dedicate hours of time to find, prepare and repost pieces (as has been the case with this post in which (however) I also looked for and posted the links of my four previously reposted pieces).
November 5, 2025Nov 5 Hi @luderart! I quite enjoy this one with those alternations of chordal and fast passages which I think well fitting to an organ. I like those bare fifths and Phrygian mode which gives the piece more antique feeling. One question is that: is this piece only written for the manual part of an organ without a pedal? I would invite @PCC to review as well since he plays organ haha. Thx for sharing! Henry
November 5, 2025Nov 5 Author 11 hours ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said: Hi @luderart! I quite enjoy this one with those alternations of chordal and fast passages which I think well fitting to an organ. I like those bare fifths and Phrygian mode which gives the piece more antique feeling. One question is that: is this piece only written for the manual part of an organ without a pedal? I would invite @PCC to review as well since he plays organ haha. Thx for sharing! Henry Hello Henry, Thanks for your review and valuable comments regarding this piece. Yes, this is like all my organ pieces except the "Soliloquy for Organ No. 1" composed for organ manuals only. Indeed the feedback of an organ player would be great!
November 21, 2025Nov 21 look @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu it has only been a year of me exploring the pipe organ lol but thanks for tagging. surprised you weren't interested in those random pauses... I like the modal harmonies of the piece but I think it would really benefit from specifying the registrations, as the score currently stands doesn't look idiomatic for the organist, and the default computer playback isn't doing wonders
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