Henry Ng Tsz Kiu

Hi Carl @Carl Koh Wei Hao! Long time no see! Hope you are well now! Yeah it’s quite different from my past music though I won’t say I have transitioned to a new style, because I really never have one myself, I only write according to what the music need. Maybe there’s some change due to the completion of my (huge) Sextet: Thx for commenting on my piece as your 1st comeback post haha! Henry

Yo Vince! Yup I love solo wandering in recent months, it helps me get in touch with reality much more and inspire myself. I won’t be able to finish the Sextet without visiting different places! Yeah the set will be finished with the most dumbass piece of the set lol! Henry

Hey @Mooravioli! I don’t consciously use the themes and folklore of HK but maybe I subconsciously did so, just like the Sextet! For the list of techniques you find, I just use them because I feel like the music need it haha. I love that main melody of 2nd theme too. For me, maybe if I don’t care those 3 things I would easier show them out, because only someone lacks them seeks them. Only if you have something original to say in your music it will be original, not the vice versa. Henry

Yo Arjuna! Yup I definitely learn from that 2nd movement of that random music for the pentatonicism displayed here! The Joke would be just a really straight forward daddy joke I guess lol! Henry

Hi @user011235! I love the motive you quote as well! Henry

Yo Peter! I don’t force myself to imitate Debussy though, his influence however must show in this. I am stupid in those errors, b.49 it should be Eb in LH, b.54 an Eb. These errors happen because I didn’t update my score after recording and nuancing the details lol. An additional error would be in b.45 when I erroneously played a C instead of F for right hand. It happens because it’s a manual playing error lol. Yeah it’s a norm for me to combine ideas together simultaneously haha, and those imitations are deliberate! I love the canon too, it’s the thing I can’t do 10 years ago! Henry

Hi @Ferrum! Thx for your comment! That’s the first time I have seen you dropped comments on my works haha! Yup I wanna try a bit of the tonic pedal effect, maybe even a bit bitonal for a G pedal under an Ab major chord.That freaking quartal chord in b.33 is just a sudden thought when I reached that passage to modulate, and weirdly it works! I love that b.35 LH theme too, it’s a product comes from 10 years ago! The counterpoint in b.55 is new though, because I won’t have the technique for the canon LoL. I love the ending as well, I think a tonic chord ending would ruin the piece by sounding a bit too confirmed. I love you love the piece, thx for that! Henry

Hi Mike! You said that before for the pentatonic scale haha! Thx for your comment! Henry

Hi @guy500, You may check out @pateceramics’s vocal works, she makes great use of vocal samples there. Henry

Hi @user011235! The use of D minor reminds me of Brahms’s Lied on death, op.121 no.1: I like the first sentence with the repeated A, it depicts the stillness of death well. The ending of A and then lower an octave and then a fifth sounds a bit difficult for the vocalist for me. For me, maybe I would use C sharp instead of C natural in b.46. Thx for sharing! Henry

Hi @Frank Normandy! I love the simplicity and melancholy of the music! I love your modulation to C minor in 0:49 and a bit suspension! Moving up an octave for the melody is quite effective for me! Maybe for me I will change the left hand accompaniment for the latter part of the music, but that’s personal because it works absolutely fine here as well, giving the simplicity you wanna achieve! Thx for sharing! Henry

Hey @PCC! I am very grateful you have made this organ arrangement of my Moment Musical! I actually love the version you sent me before when the 1st theme is played by prinzipale, but for the 2nd themes I love your usage of different colours here more! I love that you add much more colour in your arrangement, while my original piano version is more contemplative and personal, here is more grand and colourful! Also I love your slight change of passages, for example b.32 and b.38 to 41. In fact the change of melody in b.32 is also suggested by a viewer on YouTube, I think the change is great! Though my original intention is to remain introspective with a lower arch of melody, here it’s more melodic. And I love your arrangement in b.34 to 41, very effective in organ, and in b.38 changing from original Bb minor to Eb minor add some varieties too. Thx very much for your arrangement. I deeply appreciate it! Henry

In the Mood for Love is always my fxxking all time favourite film. I watched it several before but only at home’s small screen. Last week I watched the 4K restoration of director’s cut in cinema’s big screen, and fxxk! I got the music much more! I used to feel like this music boring and only functional, but when I got to the cinema, those pizzicatios are really powerful to reflect what the main characters were thinking! And this must be one of my all time fxxking favourite music. The music matches so well with the film itself (in the video it doesn’t correspond though), and I used to cry watching this scene, this time no exception. Also, freakingly beautiful Maggie Cheng and handsome Tony Leung!! As well as the cinematography and direction and art design and costume design!

Next is Porco Rossi. I have never heard of this until recently even though it’s a miyazaki film! My favourite must be this one, with the piano version arranged as the set piece for ABRSM grade 8 piece lol: To be honest I love this only after watching the film. I got the resigned and helpless feeling of the music only after watching the film, knowing what Porco Rosso had faced. It’s an insanely good film as well, very unexpected to what I expect in Miyazaki’s film!

I have watched quite a lot of films these few weeks and I will share the music one by one! First is Kiki the Delivery Service. Probably this is my favourite. It’s the agitated version of the main theme of the film music when there’s a disaster happening in the town. I love how the danger is depicted with some sort of funniness.