Henry Ng Tsz Kiu

I think this one is really cool! I’ve sung the piece before and this rendition is really exciting! Henry

Hi Jean @Krisp ! I have left a few words in Youtube, and I will reiterate here that I love your orchestration! To me it's more like an orchestra playing in a chamber setting which gives different contrasting mood in different passages. The use of harp definitely makes this one a lovely romantic lied. The subject of this lied really reminds of the film "Last Year at Marienbad" when the male protagonist insisted in recognizing the female protagonist, who always refuted it. All the harmonic progression in the piece well serves the narrative structure and mood change of the poem, and to me the most magical touch is the end-the narrator admits he never truly knew her and the chords ends on a suspended B minor chord, while the fantasy continues in the harp and other instruments. This heavily reminds me of the ending of Dichterliebe when the narrator and singer abruptly ended his singing by "sinking to the Rhine" and the music continues with the piano. Truly magical touch here. Thx for sharing! Henry

Hi @Vasilis Michael ! This one is wonderful! Recently I finally get more in touch with Scarlatti and your piece shows heavy influence of his Sonatas: echoing of passages, abrupt and wonderful modulations, all the m.d. and m.g., dexterity and touch required to play, abrupt changes of style or mood. Yours is no less wonderful than Scarlatti's Sonatas I can definitely say. Thx for sharing! Henry

Hey Pabio @Fugax Contrapunctus ! I am always in awe with your contrapuntal power and this one is no exception. The perpetual modulations through the circle of fifth matches so well with the latin text of "Change is inevitable in all things. Everything flows in the balance of those who are tempestive.", as Yijin [The Book of Change] says, "The only thing unchanged is Change itself". For me just one personal thought: maybe since this starts with E major, would it be the best to end with its tritone major, the Bb major, instead of Gb major, so the changing theme of the piece would be even better reflected? Thx for sharing this wonderful piece! Henry

Hey Kyle @UncleRed99 ! What a lovely piece which is clearly in your style: sentimental, refreshing and lovely. I like the tone color of the whole piece, and all the solo passages of the winds. Just some suggestion of mine: first the pianist isn't given a chance to play the melody at all except b.41-44. Since I've just reviewed @MK_Piano 's October piece it immediately reminds me of his piece where there is piano solo passages. I think here you can extend your piano solo passage as well and also have the winds accompanying the piano melody. Also whenever two winds are in pair, the upper instrument (in terms of score position, not range of the instrument) always have the melody. What if clarinet and oboe playing together and clarinet gets the melody? Or bassoon getting the melody over a flute countermelody? You can think of more varieties in the instrumentation as well! Also for the recurring figure in b.13: Seeing this figure immediately reminds myself of my own Clarinet Quintet 1st mov to advertise myself lol: Thx for your sharing, and my deepest condolences to you and your family for losing a family member, as Anna accompanies you for such long years as a lovely pet and family member. Henry

Hi @Lithl ! It's sad that you keep reviewing other members' posts while no one reviewing yours, so I will review this one first! I enjoy the ominous mood by playing only on the high register and the very precise rhythmic marking which creates the more random (in a positive way) effect to enhance the ghostly mood. My fav. is the no.7 one especially when there are repeating chords which is really exciting to me. I imagine the piece to be placed alongside celesta and harpsichord as in Schnittke's Symphony no.4: To me it will make the piece even more ominous! Thx for sharing! Henry

Hey Mason, I think the duration and the difficulty of the piece matches the wedding occasion: short enough, sincere enough and not overtly showy and virtuosic. It's great you have the piano playing the solo in b.30, as mostly it's doing the poor accompanying job haha. I imagine that if this piece is played in real life, you will be saying some congratulatory words and blessings to your sister in the fermata in b.29, playing the solo yourself, maybe improvising a bit, before getting back to tutti. Thx for sharing! Henry

Hey Peter, To me this sounds very like Prokofiev! The fiercely theme reminds me very much of the finale of his 7th Sonata, though in a less crazy way and in a more regular time signature. The recurring contrasting "subdue" passage really provides a very good contrast to the Fiercely passage, and even if this one is an early work of yours, the subdue passage really reminds me your late microtonal pieces despite not being microtonal here, with its mesmerizing mood and constant modulations. I like the "Serenely" passage too, though I think if played in real like it should be played with heavy rubato in the manner of a Chopin Mazurka, which would add more craziness to the score. The passage modulating and fleeting between B major/minor and Bb major reminds me very much how Beethoven did similar things in his Hammerklavier which I recently just finished practicing. Thx for sharing this enjoyable piece! Henry

Thx to me for recommending you this book 🤭 I think YC really helps my growth for composing, as it really gives me optimal experiences reading some of the best reviews on my own music which in terms motivates me to compose better. All the feedback I receive here are helping me achieve my own goal, which is to always improve my composing ability and hence to compose something really great in one day. I really do have some optimal listening experiences here. Sorry for my near absence in the forum for these few months so I can only recommend posts that are posted earlier: Suite for Strings - Orchestral and Large Ensemble - Young Composers Music Forum Symphonic Overture - Orchestral and Large Ensemble - Young Composers Music Forum "3:00 a.m. thoughts" (My best piece below 2 minutes) - Chamber Music - Young Composers Music Forum Orchestral Overture in C-sharp minor. - Orchestral and Large Ensemble - Young Composers Music Forum Just to name a few Henry

I always like this song by him! It's used in Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love. Henry

The notes are the same for M-I-C-K-E-Y lol!

Indeed we need our imagination as there's no link here 😜

nice a*alogy lol

It's good you take note of that. Henry

Hi @Churchcantor , I split your post from @Fruit hunter 's original post: I do this because we want to follow the rules in our forum etiquette: In rule 2b it says: We have this rule because by posting your own music under other members' post, it will 1) divert the original intention when the member wants some feedback on their own music rather than your music 2) causing your music to lose chances to be reviewed since it is posted under other members' posts 3) It is impolite to do so. I know that you only want to respond to other members' posts without malice. But you also need to know that this may cause some disturbance and dismay to them since you repeatedly post your own works to other members' posts without much discussion, thus they won't have much gain from your posting of your own work as a response. It would be better for you to just create your own post for your own work and then quote it under other members' posts. You are also to be reminded that if you keep posting your own piece of music to other members' posts in the way you do this time, you may receive warning points for that. Hope you understand that we clearly don't want to issue warning points to any members. Henry