Prelude no.14 - Live Performance by Henry Ng

This one is a little bit minor, little bit dorian, kept it on the simpler side. 😄 

I hope you enjoy, and as always all comments and thoughts are welcome!

EDIT: Added Henry's performance... thanks Henry!!

@Thatguy v2.0

Here's my review on your prelude: 

1. Harmony:  The harmonic language throughout this prelude is lush, and beautiful.  There are moments of chromaticism that create a sense of romanticism and yonder.  Ex: b 26.  I love how that sonority sneaks in and breaks the diatonic harmony. 

2. Melodic material: You have established clear melodic motive the flows nicely with the harmony. 

3. Character and tone: I feel that this piece is a romantic style prelude.  Either chopin or Rachominov would have wrote something like this. 

4. the score is readible and playable. 

Overall i enjoy it. 🙂  

@Kvothe Hey thanks for listening! 🙂

Very nice!  It sounds to me a bit proto-impressionistic, like a young Debussy.  

harmonies in bar 3 (loove the surprise Csharp) and 34 (yay raised sixth!!!) are my faves 🙂 

whole thing has a wonderful melancholy vibe. the tresillo rhythm of the middle section is a fun vibe to bring into it

6 hours ago, Churchcantor said:

Very nice!  It sounds to me a bit proto-impressionistic, like a young Debussy.

I agree! I love how Debussy moved his chord progressions along. Thanks for listening

5 hours ago, TheGreatEscaper said:

harmonies in bar 3 (loove the surprise Csharp)

I love this too. The sneaky parallel fifths in that string of chords sounds "shiny" to me, my brain kept wanting me to tinker with the counterpoint but I ultimately went with my ears. Thanks for listening, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

I really love this. Some harmonies are so interesting and gave very special timbre and atmosphere to the whole prelude. Well done my dear friend. I really enjoyed it

On 11/26/2025 at 2:00 PM, Vasilis Michael said:

I really love this. Some harmonies are so interesting and gave very special timbre and atmosphere to the whole prelude. Well done my dear friend. I really enjoyed it

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Also, added some wonderful playing by Henry 😄 

Hey Vince,

I really like the music and enjoy playing it. I have to say, playing it helps relieve some of my pain during these few days when the fire engulfs at least 156 residents in HK. I love the variety you added in the music despite keeping it simple, for example the dynamics plus harmonic change like in b.20, 29 and 31, and keeping the counterpoint oblique. In my recording during the long phrase in b.11-19 I did add some dynamic changes of my own which is not included in the score haha. Thx for sharing.

Henry

What a nice piece.  Tonal, but quite adventurously so.  An absolutely fascinating ending, by the way.  

I'm always a fan of the minor and the modal, and agree with the rest of the room that the surprise C# is a particularly nice moment!  If I had one wish, I think it would be nice to play around with something every so slightly different in the left hand the third time through bar one and two instead of doing an exact repeat of that material.  We've gone on such a journey by that point, that to evolve, just by a note or two so the listener wonders what has changed, might be interesting to play with.  

This is really wonderful, and Henry's playing is very tender with excellent phrasing and use of rubato.  Bravo to you both!