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  • Special Keyboard Demos

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    Finally we have our first collection of Special Keyboard demos online

    Harpsichord

    Beat Kaufmann, our export for baroque music produced three pieces for us:

    a solo harpsichord piece
    "Two Part Invention in F-Major" by Johann Sebastian Bach
    http://www.vsl.co.at/Player2.aspx?Lang=13&DemoId=5091

    harpsicord plus small orchestra
    "Brandenburg Concerto Nr. 5 - Allegro" by Johann Sebastian Bach
    http://www.vsl.co.at/Player2.aspx?Lang=13&DemoId=5092

    harpsichord plus solo instrument
    "Violin Sonate No6, Adagio - Allegro" by Georg Friedrich Händel
    http://www.vsl.co.at/Player2.aspx?Lang=13&DemoId=5093


    harpsichord in a filmmusic enviroment
    Christian Kardeis did this lovely arrangement of the
    "Miss Marple Theme" by Ron Goodwin
    http://www.vsl.co.at/Player2.aspx?Lang=13&DemoId=5098

    Stefan Fahl send us also two virtuos harpsichord pieces
    of a very interesting but rarely known baroque composer
    Johann Kaspar Kerll

    Cappriccio
    http://www.vsl.co.at/Player2.aspx?Lang=13&DemoId=5094

    Canzone
    http://www.vsl.co.at/Player2.aspx?Lang=13&DemoId=5095


    Harmonium

    Also Stefan Fahl produced this two orginal compositions for Harmonium
    by Sigfrid Karg-Elert (a 19th century composer)

    A la Burla op 26/2
    http://www.vsl.co.at/Player2.aspx?Lang=13&DemoId=5096

    Scherzino Bizarro op. 26/3
    http://www.vsl.co.at/Player2.aspx?Lang=13&DemoId=5097


    Prepared Piano

    Guy Bacos composed this wonderful piece for our prepared piano with orchestra accompainement

    Prepared Piano Elegy
    http://www.vsl.co.at/Player2.aspx?Lang=13&DemoId=5099

    thansk a lot!
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    The F major invention! One of my favorites!

    Beat, you are truly a legend. Do I detecta bum note at 1:05?[[;)]]

    Great sound off that harpsicord.
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    @Banquo said:

    The F major invention! One of my favorites!




    That's one of the tunes we hear at the end of "All You Need Is Love", but on the trumpet. I suspect Bach stoled it from the Beatles.....
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    Really? Wow! That's incredible, I'm one of 'those' Beatles fans and I never noticed that. That's cool. I learned something today.
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    Omg, you're totally right. How cool is that, seriously?
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    @Banquo said:

    Do I detect a bum note at 1:05?[[[;)]]]
    Great sound off that harpsicord.

    Hello Banquo
    Yes I also detect a bum note!
    The devil only knows how that bum has found its way into this chicken run. [[[;)]]]

    Beat [:O]ops:
    - Tips & Tricks while using Samples of VSL.. see at: https://www.beat-kaufmann.com/vitutorials/ - Tutorial "Mixing an Orchestra": https://www.beat-kaufmann.com/mixing-an-orchestra/
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    Cool arrangement, Christian !!

    With all due respect to Margeret Rutherford, waiting to hear that NIFTY theme is the ONLY reason I ever watched those Miss Marple movies!
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    Lovely piece, Guy!

    Best,
    Jay
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    Great performances. I like the Miss Marple and Guy's piece a lot. Also the Brandenburg. Karg-Elert is interesting. He wrote some great brass music as well.

    Ron Goodwin - isn't he the composer of the score to Hitchcock's Frenzy? That was one of the few very good non-Herrmann scores for a Hitchcock film.
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    The Miss Marple theme's always been one of my favourites - I'm happy to find it here!

    Three cheers,
    d.
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    hello all@vsl-forum

    yes and yes... miss marple is a good day-starter [:)]
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    hups.. to quick with "enter"... [:O]ops: ....

    but the track from guy is a genius score... listen to it 3 times in a row.. simply great!!!!

    thanks also for uploading this piece in 256kbps..
    since im member yesterday, i think i start to really like this forum

    guy: did you composed the orchestral arr with appassionata?

    greats (have to hear that piece the 4th time [:)])
    markus
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    Thanks Jay [[[;)]]], William [[[;)]]] and Markus [[[;)]]]



    Beat,

    I love your Brandenburg! [:D]


    Christian,

    A lot of fun what you did. Love it! Do the drums all come from VSL? Interesting if so...


    Stefan,

    I enjoyed your interpretation in both, harpsichord and harmonium. The harmonium pieces (and interpretation) are very charming, interesting style...


    Markus,

    The strings were composed with Appa and some other VSL string lib.
    And thanks for your nice compliment. [:)]
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    @Guy said:


    Stefan,

    I enjoyed your interpretation in both, harpsichord and harmonium. The harmonium pieces (and interpretation) are very charming, interesting style...


    Hi Guy,
    Thanks,
    I've never heard such a romantic piece for prepared piano before than your elegy
    [[;)]]
    best
    steffen
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    @fahl5 said:



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    I've never heard such a romantic piece for prepared piano before than your elegy
    [[;)]]
    best
    steffen


    John Cage must be turning in his grave...
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    @Guy said:



    John Cage must be turning in his grave...


    Oh, Cage is a genius
    ...but I dont think he'd ever pretends to be romantic

    I wonder what Cage would have done in the Age of sample engines
    - perhaps preparing prepared piano samples. [[;)]]

    best
    Steffen
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    @Guy said:



    John Cage must be turning in his grave...


    Oh, Cage is a genius
    ...but I dont think he'd ever pretends to be romantic

    I wonder what Cage would have done in the Age of sample engines
    - perhaps preparing prepared piano samples. [[;)]]

    best
    Steffen

    With Cage's inventive mind he'd probably be working on prepared computer samples, whatever that would be! [*-)]
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    I wonder what Cage would have done in the Age of sample engines
    - perhaps preparing prepared piano samples. [[;)]]

    best
    Steffen


    With Cage's inventive mind he'd probably be working on prepared computer samples, whatever that would be! [*-)]

    perhaps even more probable, that he'd sit 4′33″ in front of his Laptop or
    perhaps more likely would programm another ASLSP piece for Longtime Samples up to the Year 3020 (that would be a great job for an evrything else surpassing highlevel VSL Sample Library with each single Sample needs several terabyte RAM) [H]

    best
    Steffen
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    I'm sure if Cage was alive he'd manufacture samples for 4'33", and they would be expensive! [:D]
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    @Guy said:

    I'm sure if Cage was alive he'd manufacture samples for 4'33", and they would be expensive! [:D]


    Of course since 4'33" is an extraordinary Pianopiece that uses all keys in the same way, you have to sample them all over the keyboard

    ... of course, those are the very special Keyboard samples that are still missing in the new VSL Sampleset. [[;)]]
    Steffen