Alexx

Hello Peter Thank you for your positive assessment of my Trio. This music was written for violin, cello and piano. Alto is not there. Thanks for pointing out the abbreviations. I didn’t attach any importance to them, since the full name of the instrument is indicated at the beginning. I'll definitely fix it. I simply used the patches that the program suggested by default. Danimika is really poorly written, you are right. But I made this recording only to get acquainted with the work itself with its form, themes, and harmony. I hope this trio will be performed by live musicians in the future. Then it will be performed the way it should sound - with all the dynamic shades and touches. Thanks again! I am very glad for your assessment!

Hi everyone! Let me introduce my new composition. It is my Trio for viola, violoncello and piano. This composition I dedicated to memory of my father.

It's too little. However in this tiny piece you have contained too much too different music characters but you haven't done any development of them. I couldn't understand nor musical form nor contain of it. It's more like a sketch than a finished piece.

Thank you, Daniel! Yes, the end of this composition is convincing for me. However, it is very difficult for any author to separate what he wanted to say and what he actually said. In this Ballad, this little four-note motif is very important both in the musical structure and in the figurative content. It brings the main contrast. It stimulates all musical development. He is like an antihero in this story. His return at the end seems very justified to me. Maybe I'm wrong.

Thank you, Luis! The Ballad is performed by computer, so timbre is not good. I have made this record only for acquaintance with this piece.

Thank you for this very interesting piece! I even didn't know that such difficult effects are possible for solo violin. In the music aspect your composition is interesting with its rhythm. The rhythm and the combinations of measures are very expressive and bright.

Thank you very much! I glad that you liked my Ballade. The melodic gesture before the last cord is really some unexpected and maybe strange. I wanted to make an expression like ellipsis at the end of a book. Ballade is a narration isn't it? 😃 So, my narration is not ended. However, maybe I'm mistaken and this solution of ending is not successful.

Good time of the day, Henry! I'm enjoyed your composition. Your melodies are some similar to Haydn's and Mozart's themes, but facture is some similar to inventions of Bach. Together it makes an interesting stylistic effect. It is really postmodernly. When I have been listening I thought that you played with music forms and melodic idioms. Something was like yours reflections about past music ages.

Let me introduce my Ballad No. 3 (E flat major) for solo piano. When I wrote this music, I wanted to make the composition as melodically expressive as possible. I also tried to make as clean chords as possible without harsh dissonances. I hope this Ballad will not look too old-fashioned. I just wrote the music I wanted to listen to. If someone liked it, I will be very happy.

I think you have reached high level of composition mastery. Your fugue is very interesting and expressive. You have made every voice bright and natural in melodic aspect. And excuse me please, but I didn't understand the sense of the title. Maybe owing to my poor English I don't know what is the link between this military picture and your fugue. However it is not matter. Important is that you have written good music. Thank you for sharing! 😃

Thank you very much! I'm glad that my composition is liked to you.

This is my original composition for piano solo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7jDdP4iurY&ab_channel=LexShadow

Thank you very much for your feedback. It was very valuable for me. I think that any scale can't make a composition more monotonic or more interesting. It is depended from the author's composition skills only. If somebody can't use some composer technique well he can't write a good music with any scale, form or orchestra. I thought about the octatonic scale when I wrote this poem. However I decided don't use it because it reminds classical compositions very much. Maybe I was mistaken but I wanted to avoid the methods of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov or other famous composers. Also I wanted to create a mood somewhere between real and fantastic. The listeners have to decide themselves is it a real ghosts or just playing of shadows and their imagines. I can't translate into English the moods of the lyrics fully. But I tried to transfer it to music as I could. Excuse me, please, if I said something wrong or incomprehensible.

Everyone has own personal imagines about good music structures. If you are sure that you have done everything right in this piece you of course can leave it as is. Sometimes listeners perceive new forms wrong. My opinion was just my opinion.

Is the part finished? I think it is too short. Beginning was very interesting and beautiful. I expected that now will be started a theme. I waited for a melody, but it didn't begin. Instead of it you shown a new tune which sounded like a scherzo. It was very strange and unprepared. The second tune also was very short and didn't have any development. Yes, you created nice harmonies and interesting orchestration. However your composition is looking empty (excuse me for my English). Empty because it has a beginning and an ending but it doesn't have the main part with themes. You called the piece "Serenade". This name immediately makes listeners to remembr vocal music or instrumental compositions in vocal style. I'd enlarge it by adding a medium part. Excuse me please, if my words sounded rude. I didn't want it. With respect, Alex

It was more interesting than I thought when was reading your explain for this composition. Here you shown an interesting journey along different music styles and periods. As for me the most difficult thing in such work is connection a number of unsimilar contrast fragments into a single opus. You have done this challenge well. Your waltz is bright and interesting from beginning to ending.

I like it. Pentatonic makes the coloring of the piece some exotic. The most interesting as for me was the transitions between 4/4 and 6/8. You excellent have done them. These measures are very different and it is difficult to connect such unsimilar parts.

I very like your themes. Your melodies are expressive and interesting. As another speakers I think that in this waltz there is a perceptible impact of Chopin's style. However I don't think that it is a flaw. The composition is beautiful and this is the main thing. Single matter I would like ask is an episode in 4/4. I didn't understand it. What was it for? What did you want to say with it? The measure 4/4 is very strange for waltzes. At last that fragment is too short compared another parts. It surprises listeners and asks questions but doesn't answer them. I didn't want to say that it was a flaw. I just think that the episode in 4/4 makes your composition more similar to a ballade or a poem. Or maybe your composition has a program.

It was very interesting and nice. I like the melodies and structure of it. And I'm glad that contemporary authors are still remembering that music has to be beautiful. Very well done.

What a cute composition! I really enjoyed. You have written a very interesting and nice music. The melody is expressive, the construction is clear and logical. I would like to listen to another your things.

I'm intrigued by your remarks about this composition. The thing with a name "Lighthouse" and which was inspired by Russian authors immediately hints that it has a program. Am I right? Does it have a programme? The music is interesting. Some fragments really reminds Russian melodies and harmonies. Thems are nice and expressive. The form is logical and holistic. Well done.

I very like this your composition. It's incredibly that you are able to create such music without professional education. I think the strongest side of your opus is a beautiful melody. It is very expressive and memorable. Orchestration is easy but very suitable for this emotion. The single question I would ask - why did you call it "Sonata"? Sonata and suite are cyclick janres. Moreover "Sonata" is a chamber music. Maybe the name 'poem' for this composition would be better?

As for me this fragment is too short. Because of it I think that it is still too early to say about is it a dull one or interesting. You should finish it.

Thank you very much! I'm glad that you like it.

I have listened to your Nocturne. I think your composition has many good qualities. The main of them is a beautiful and expressive melody. Structure is also logical and clear. As for me it is good. However I think the transition from the medium episode to the reprise sounds some strange and unprepared. The accord "Am" is seems not excellent. Excuse me, please, if these my words sounded rude. I didn't want it. And the last moment (if you will allow). Yes, you are right, the style of Chopin is recognizable here. If it was your goal you completely reached it. However I have never been able to understand for what to imitate strange styles before mastering the own one. I think you are very talented. Your own style (I guess) will be very bright and interesting. I wish you to reach success and to write a lot of good compositions. P.S. I'm sorry for my English.