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Aphorismen für Klavier: V. Oberek [Philip Daniel; 2020]

17 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

Fifth in a cycle of aphoristic miniatures for piano. A highly virtuosic and vociferous stylization of the Polish folk dance called the Oberek. The painting in the video is "Oak fractured by a lightning (Allegory on the artist's wife death)"...

Aphorismen für Klavier: V. Oberek [Philip Daniel; 2020]

Aphorismen für Klavier: IV. Vergänglichkeit [Philip Daniel; 2020]

16 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

Fourth in a cycle of aphoristic miniatures for piano. As the title suggests, a "reminiscence" of prior pieces in the set ("...mit Raureif bedeckt..." and Lautenlied), wherein harmonic and melodic ideas reappear in "refracted" guise. Unusua...

Aphorismen für Klavier: IV. Vergänglichkeit [Philip Daniel; 2020]

Aphorismen für Klavier: III. Lautenlied [Philip Daniel; 2020]

15 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

Third in a cycle of aphoristic miniatures for piano. A lachrymose yet harmonically sensuous invocation of the Renaissance "lute song", unfolding within a compressed "developmental variation" tripartite formal scheme. The painting in the vi...

Aphorismen für Klavier: III. Lautenlied [Philip Daniel; 2020]

Aphorismen für Klavier: I. "...mit Raureif bedeckt..." [Philip Daniel; 2020]

15 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

First in a cycle of aphoristic miniatures for piano, here in crystalline fashion evoking the earth "bedecked with frost". Note, in the piece's brief and compressed duration, the central section, almost a "canone al rovescio" (c...

Aphorismen für Klavier: I. "...mit Raureif bedeckt..." [Philip Daniel; 2020]

Idiosynkratische Tonstücke für die Orgel: IX. Der unendliche Feuerstrophe [Philip Daniel; 2020]

14 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

Ninth in a series of "Idiosyncratic Tone-Pieces" for concert organ (the instrument ideally of the "French Symphonic" variety). An "endless verse of fire," unfolding in the passionate polyphony of seemingly endless melody, with co...

Idiosynkratische Tonstücke für die Orgel: IX. Der unendliche Feuerstrophe [Philip Daniel; 2020]

Idiosynkratische Tonstücke für die Orgel: VIII. Hymne an die Sonne [Philip Daniel; 2020]

2 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

Eighth in a series of "Idiosyncratic Tone-Pieces" for concert organ (the instrument ideally of the "French Symphonic" variety). In contrast to its immediate predecessor, this melodically cantabile "Hymn to the Sun" signals the return to a...

Idiosynkratische Tonstücke für die Orgel: VIII. Hymne an die Sonne [Philip Daniel; 2020]

Idiosynkratische Tonstücke für die Orgel: VII. Hexensabbat [Philip Daniel; 2020]

1 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

Seventh in a series of "Idiosyncratic Tone-Pieces" for concert organ (the instrument ideally of the "French Symphonic" variety). As the title suggests, this prestissimo study in fragmentary melodicism and harmonic severity intends to evoke t...

Idiosynkratische Tonstücke für die Orgel: VII. Hexensabbat [Philip Daniel; 2020]

Idiosynkratische Tonstücke für die Orgel: VI. Im Garten von Gethsemane [Philip Daniel; 2020]

26 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

Sixth in a series of "Idiosyncratic Tone-Pieces" for concert organ (the instrument ideally of the "French Symphonic" variety). A tableau of the Garden of Gethsemane, featuring pensively coiling chromatic three-part counterpoint. The inner se...

Idiosynkratische Tonstücke für die Orgel: VI. Im Garten von Gethsemane [Philip Daniel; 2020]

Idiosynkratische Tonstücke für die Orgel: V. Die Obelisken [Philip Daniel; 2020]

18 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

Fifth in a series of "Idiosyncratic Tone-Pieces" for concert organ (the instrument ideally of the "French Symphonic" variety). The darkly theatrical outer sections, characterized by a recitative-like melody supported by semi-contrapuntal sub...

Idiosynkratische Tonstücke für die Orgel: V. Die Obelisken [Philip Daniel; 2020]

Idiosynkratische Tonstücke für die Orgel: IV. Die Drehleier [Philip Daniel; 2020]

17 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

Fourth in a series of "Idiosyncratic Tone-Pieces" for concert organ (the instrument ideally of the "French Symphonic" variety). A highly virtuosic and explosively dissonant musical "portrait" of the hurdy-gurdy (with its characteristic drone...