My most cinematic composition

https://youtu.be/RuxcHnDTfjQ

This project took quite a lot of effort. I spent around 19 hours orchestrating the piece, which had taken me around 9 hours to compose last year. I can say that I think I'm improving a bit with my orchestration and I'm getting more familiar with each instrument and how an orchestra operates, but I still have so much to learn... Luckily I'm getting this kind of film sound color.

The original piano piece was inspired by this poem:

"When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,

Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;

Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;

For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings."

-William Shakespeare

Echos of Ennio Morricone ....... 🙂