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My favorites are: 3 > 9 > 5 > 1 > 7 > 6 > the rest that I never even really listen to LoL

As discussed in the discord channel, I would like to ask which one is your favourite Beethoven Symphony?

Very nice! One thing you could do is raise the velocity in the RH slightly to make the melody shine a bit more, but as always, beautifully done. 🙂

I used to live in Eagle River, it's a shame I can't check out your performances 😞 But thanks for posting! I hope you receive some worthwhile entries

Agreed. I hear this as a collage of color. Perhaps if it continued, a high soaring melodic line to hold our ears would be welcomed, and I'd be curious where you would go from here. Lovely music so far.

I'm not used to this style but I stylistically I can't find any glaring flaws here. On a practical level, 1. Are you sure this piece is playable, and at this tempo? I'm not that skilled so you'll have to judge it for yourself, but those semiquavers thirds can easily tense up my finger muscles, and the repeated octaves..., and repeated thumb notes? like bar 178, and Mr. big hands like bar 169 2. voicing issues like bar 13, the crotchets don't mean anything if the next quaver you are just going to bang fortissimo anyway

Sorry, I should have been more clear with my phrasing

Hi @Atlantis_! Not sure which part exactly you consider to be the melody here. I hear many melodic parts being played at once - it gives sort of an impression of "blooming" which I think the title of this track is meant to suggest. There's a lot of motion in a spread and differentiated heterophonic texture. I think it's wonderful - I don't hear anything boring here! Now if you managed to continue it while also modulating to different key centers it would really create a delightfully rich composition! Thanks for sharing.

I meant improving MY playing of it, not the piece itself

I'm just flabbergasted that you found something to improve upon in a Mozart work.

Not sure if I am overthinking. But I think the melody is slightly boring

Also doing Indian classical singing But self learning Handel’s aria “Dove sei, amato bene”

Why the emoji?

Yes? I learnt it few years ago and wanted to revise it

Hold up .. you're revising a Mozart concerto?!?!

Piano: Haydn concerto in d major movement 3 Beethoven op 2 no 1 movement 1 Bach sinfonia c minor Brahms intermezzo op 116 no 2 Prokofiev visions fugitives no 10 Revising Mozart concerto No 12 first movement Violin: DeBeriot violin concerto 9 first movement Mozart violin concerto 2

Hello @Aleon Raven and welcome to the forum! What an intense, lucid and mesmerizing track! It starts very underwhelmingly and takes its time to build up to full intensity. I love how hypnotic the ostinato pattern makes the whole track. And there's plenty of variety and key and meter changes (or at least it sounded like the ostinato was being played in different kinds of subdivisions of the beat sometimes). The orchestration is masterful. The rendition is top notch - extremely realistic even with the choir. The melodies are so subtly interwoven too with the ostinato being almost treated like its own melody. Very happy to have you here - thanks for sharing and I hope you continue to contribute your music and useful experience as a composer, orchestrator and producer! Edit: I noticed that at 3:28 there is a sudden dip in the whole tracks volume level. Is that intentional?

I find percussion hard to apply. To get a better feel for the masses of samples I had I wrote a couple of pieces for percussion only and one for voice and percussion, far different from cinematic writing. I think I may have submitted one of the pieces here - can't remember. They seem more novelty pieces with a good amount of learning as a result. Then suddenly a potential student applying for a course at the Royal Academy of Dance with whom I've worked before wanted a contemporary piece for her audition. She was rummaging through my stuff and found one of these pieces.

As I understand, laisez vibrer normally applies to percussion instruments, meaning let the sound die away without any damping. I've not heard of it used with string instruments (except harp, guitar and like instruments). It wouldn't seem effective as an articulation. Then again in modern performances and uses of acoustic instruments it wouldn't surprise me if someone has found a use for it.

A great piece. It is emotional, with a piano that is not too complicated but enriched by the strings. It would be nice to put the instruments on the staves at the beginning, although it is obvious when it starts to sound... The video format is very good especially when it is well edited, as in this case. The pdf is better when you are interested in analyzing something or parts in detail. I think they complement each other. My only observation is that the strings have a rather “passive” role almost always, as harmonic support or doubling some melodic line of the piano. In the G part, for example, there is some sketch of independence of the strings.

A surprising work. The pace is a bit frenetic, although it calms down and contrasts a bit at the end. I think the ostinato rhythm of dotted eighth notes predominates for the most part, but I do find that there is a lot of variety. At measure 189 it is clear that this is a tonal cluster. I've never seen it noted this way before but I don't see a problem with it. The piece runs very smoothly and the transitions are great.

Hello everyone, I’m super excited for my first post here. My name is Sergei and I'm starting my composer journey right now (under the name Aleon Raven), finally releasing some of my works to the public after finishing studying scoring for media, and as I’m a huge fan of Thomas Bergersen and epic music in general, I decided it would be cool if my first released track is actually the one that was made in attempt to come as close to epic music as I currently capable of. Immense amount of time was spent in the DAW for this one, so the next challenge is not only to improve, but to get to this result somewhat faster... 😀 Hope you'll enjoy this kind of music here! Sergei aka Aleon Raven.

The melody sounds fascinating, melancholy, and mysterious. In some areas, it almost sounds similar to Yanni, especially around bar 51.

Thank you NickReh for your review, your appreciation of the piece and your suggestions of alternatives. I appreciate it.

But very bad acoustics haha! Yeah it advertised tho I’m not interested in those incidental music haha! Yeah it’s good in the first sight and as tourist! But bad enough if you really live here! Henry