Tuesday, 16 January 2024

New Blog - Moving on to Studio Philharmonico

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Dear friends, A happy New Year 2024 to all of you! This my music blog has slowly fallen asleep over time... I had a busy time in other aspec...
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Wednesday, 4 July 2018

My mobile music studio

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In the past two years I have converted an LDV 400 Convoy (a minibus / van) into a campervan . And I have made provisions to use this as a mo...
Saturday, 16 December 2017

The Sugarwell Recordings

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From December 2015 until June 2017 I lived in Sugarwell Court in Leeds. The Sugarwell Court is a former tannery (known as Sugarwell Work...
Wednesday, 23 November 2016

New Album Online: "Digital Expressions" - Music of the Early 20th Century

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I always wanted to publish my recordings of 20th century music, but there had been the big obstacle of copyright law: in order to be able to...
Saturday, 13 August 2016

LOUDR.fm for Classical Music "Cover Songs"

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Since several years I have published some of my music renditions on CD Baby , which has allowed me to bring this music to sites like iTunes,...
Tuesday, 2 February 2016

The emotional "meaning" of music intervals

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When searching for some existing work which relates to the perception of musical intervals in the ears (and the brains) of listeners, I came...
Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Béla Bartók: Rhapsody No.1 (1928). "Lassu" and "Friss"

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Today, on 25 March 2015, is Bela Bartok's 134th birthday. Not a "round" number, but still reason to celebrate him with his mu...
Sunday, 1 March 2015

"Im Märzen der Bauer..."

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The beginning of spring in the month or March is a good opportunity to play the old folk song (Volkslied) from Moravia "Im Märzen der B...
Sunday, 15 February 2015

"A fairly ordinary working day" - composition for string quartet

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In summer 2012 the Crossover Composition Award was organised, asking for a composition for two violins. So I sat down and wrote a 5 minute ...
Tuesday, 14 October 2014

Delian Suite #8 - a collaborative music composition project

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The "Delian Society" is currently working on a composition which involves several composers: The "Delian Suite #8" has s...
Friday, 15 November 2013

"Romantic Suite"

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In 2001 I wrote this three-part suite for orchestra. It has the movements "Mirage", "Cheeky", and "Never Ending...
Thursday, 14 November 2013

Visualisation Video of Debussy's Nuages - by Stephen Malinowski

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Stephen Malinowski has visualised my recording of Claude Debussy's "Nuages": This is in principle a piano roll plot, but w...
Monday, 17 June 2013

Website Maintenance - all music tracks now streamed for free

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After a longer period of inactivity I had a look at my main website www.virtualphilharmonic.co.uk , only to notice that many of my music str...
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Thursday, 7 February 2013

Tchaikovsky: February - Carnival

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A few days ago I completed the orchestra transcription of the second piece from Tchaikovsky's Suite "The Seasons", "Febru...
Friday, 1 February 2013

Tchaikovsky: January - At the Fireside

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Tchaikovsky wrote the 12 pieces "The Seasons" for piano solo. However, they lend themselves very well for orchestration, and seve...
Thursday, 22 November 2012

"5. Forum Medientechnik" at FH St.Poelten (Austria) - Keynote

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On Thursday, 22.November 2012 I will give a keynote presentation at the "Forum Medientechnik", organised by the FH St.Poelten (Aus...
Friday, 18 May 2012

Mahler: "Resurrection", 1st Movement

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Today, 18.May 2012, is the 101st anniversary of Gustav Mahler's death. Just in time for this commemoration I was able to complete my ren...
Saturday, 7 April 2012

2D Fourier Transform on Music

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For a long time, I have thought about what to do to visualize music. The need for this comes when posting music recordings onto YouTube, whi...
Friday, 30 March 2012

Opening of Workshop "Music, Mind, Invention"

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At the evening before the workshop "Music, Mind, Invention" began (held at The College of New Jersey in Ewing), a concert was giv...
Saturday, 24 March 2012

Ravel's "Ma mère l'oye" (Mother Goose) recorded by VPO

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Maurice Ravel's orchestral suite "Ma mère l'oye" (Mother Goose) is based on children's stories. It was first written a...
Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Happy 137th birthday, Monsieur Joseph-Maurice Ravel!

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It is not really a big anniversary - 137 years is kind of an odd number. But there is always a good reason to take the opportunity to celebr...
Saturday, 18 February 2012

Redesigned Website

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Currently I am working on redesigning the Website of the Virtual Philharmonic Orchestra . Most of the work has now been done, but there are ...
Friday, 3 February 2012

Slow Mahler - Out of Context

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The last two years, 2010 and 2011, have seen many performances and new recordings of the Symphonies by Gustav Mahler, due to the fact, that ...
Monday, 30 January 2012

Plans for 2012

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Almost 1/12 of the new year 2012 has already passed... The Virtual Philharmonic Orchestra (VPO) has big projects for this year: all pre-2005...
Wednesday, 7 September 2011

Mahler 9, final movement: "Adagio"

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In recent weeks during August, I have worked on a new rendition: the final movement of Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony, "Adagio"....
Friday, 10 June 2011

Concert Review: Elisabeth Kulman and Amarcord Wien

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Friday afternoon, I walk through the streets of Graz. Then I see a poster with an announcement of a concert for this evening: Songs by Mahle...
Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Maazel and Philharmonia: Mahler #5 and Mozart in Hull

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On Saturday, 29.May 2011, I once again had the pleasure of attending a concert conducted by Maestro Lorin Maazel. He conducted the Philharmo...
Thursday, 19 May 2011

18.May: 100th Anniversary of Mahler's Death

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On 18.May 1911 one of the greatest composers ever died in Vienna: Gustav Mahler. So much has been written about him and his music, I really ...
Wednesday, 18 May 2011

CD: Walter conducts Mahler's 9th Symphony

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On one of my recent long motorway drives (on the M62) I had the opportunity to listen to another treasure from my CD collection: a recording...
Thursday, 14 April 2011

Event: "The River Aire" in Castleford, Fr.,15.April, 18:30

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On Friday, 15.April 2011 at 18:30 a preview event will be held for an exhibition at the Bridge Arts Gallery in Castleford (at the Sagar Stre...

New Composition: "The River Aire"

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Something different in this post, no Gustav Mahler music; instead this time it is my own. I have just uploaded my composition "The Rive...
Wednesday, 13 April 2011

Mahler plays Mahler

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This week I have been on the road a bit: Monday to Hull, Tuesday and Wednesday to Manchester. The hour-long ride on the M62 provides a great...
Tuesday, 12 April 2011

Version Numbering of Recordings

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As I am creating new versions of my renditions regularly, I have to find a way of distinguishing them. Since in the past 20 years, people ha...
Thursday, 7 April 2011

New Renditions: Mahler, Symphony No.1, 1st and 2nd movement

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In my effort to improve the string sounds of my rendition of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.1, I have now added additional string layers to...
Monday, 4 April 2011

New Rendition: Mahler, Symphony #1, 4th movement

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In my pursuit of creating good renditions of the orchestral music by Gustav Mahler, I have completed another step: A new rendition of the 4t...
Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Online Music Distribution - "Classical" is still problematic

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When I recently released my album "My Music in 2010", I used CD Baby as the distributor. They take care of submitting the music f...
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New Version of "Blumine"

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A new version of Mahler's "Blumine" (version 1.4) is now online on the VPO website (MP3 and WMA file). This version is based ...
Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Amazon is fast - "My Music 2010" online there

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In February 2011 I had uploaded my album "My Music 2010" to CD Baby , and it was immediately available there. After that, CD Baby ...
Wednesday, 16 March 2011

New Rendition: Gustav Mahler "Blumine". With Live Trumpet (Julius Eiweck)

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I just completed a new version of Gustav Mahler's Blumine , the formerly 2nd movement of his Symphony No.1 which he discarded after thre...