Träume vom Frühling — Orchestra

A tune I wrote for Orchestra (mainly winds and strings) the other day.

More classically-oriented than my usual stuff. Let me know what you guys think.

Vielen Dank im Voraus

Hi Chris,

You for sure capture the spirit of spring! I love your use of flute and piccolo which well represent its spirit. You first use winds to augur the springs and then invite the tutti, which is a great arrangement. The bell in around 0:40 is great as well and you use brass for the section's 1st sentence, and later round up with winds. Greatly enjoy this!

1 hour ago, AngelCityOutlaw said:

More classically-oriented than my usual stuff. Let me know what you guys think.

Yea but it is well suited to use this approach for the dream of spring! It even reminds me something Mozartian, not necessarily its musical feature but the spirit of it!

Thanks for sharing as always!

Henry

A fresh piece. It brings to me a feeling of joy. I think it's well orchestrated. Thanks.

I like the shiny and energy mood of your piece of music. Also like the orchestration. You might consider to make a longer version.

I think this piece is very vibrant and full of the energy and vivacity - just like spring!  I guess you picked the right time to submit this piece!  LoL  I wish you would extend your pieces more or write longer forms to really satisfy the listeners thirst for your music.  I asked this in another review but do you give out only short samples of your music on purpose to prevent people from plagiarizing your pieces?  (Yes - I do like my P alliteration after all!  LoL)  Thanks for sharing!

Thanks, guys!

On 2/19/2023 at 9:00 PM, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

I asked this in another review but do you give out only short samples of your music on purpose to prevent people from plagiarizing your pieces?

Man, I wish I was good enough that people would plagiarize me.

No, there are a few reasons these pieces are shorter

1. I personally don't feel that instrumental music generally needs to be very long to begin with.

2. Most new listeners don't want to listen to someone they don't even know's 5-minute epic. If they see it's very long, they're not likely to listen to it all the way through.

3. Much of it is into the portfolio for potential clients, and when considering hiring you, they really want tracks that get straight to the point.

4. Probably the biggest reason is time investment in MIDI mockups.

On 2/23/2023 at 7:24 AM, AngelCityOutlaw said:

Man, I wish I was good enough that people would plagiarize me.

Try uploading it to bilibili, lol.

Your reasons why not making longer works are pretty solid —despite I don't share the tastes on length; I enjoy longer works unlike, understandably, a good portion of the audience one can gather in YT or in any other social media—, just like the piece you brought us. As others said it's full of joy and energy. Despite brief, you ended it very nicely, which tends to be my main complaint whenever I listen to shorter works, but this doesn't happen here so I'm very pleased with the length in this case.

The whole work, as always, sounds magnificent. Thank you for bringing it, it's always nice to listen to your high-quality music.

Kind regards,
Daniel–Ømicrón.

Excellent work capturing the joy and energy of the Spring! Orchestration is really, really good. Really good use of the woodwinds and brass. It was so short though, it really left me wanting more LOL. You should definitely extend it.

A really nice, light, airy piece - full of sunlight.

Nothing to crit other than it was a little short and if you're ever of a mind you could probably lengthen it. The scoring came over well. It has a rhapsodic air. Great production.

Glad I tuned in to listen. 

Cheers.