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  • Beethoven, Serenata in D, Opus 25, Menuet

    J
    J
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    Dear friends,

    It's been quite a while... My mother is slowly passing away (90 years) with cancer. So I've been busy with caring tasks and supporting her during these days. To distract a bit from this sad occupation, I reworked in detail an earlier mock-up with the simplest tools: 3 VSL instruments solos (Violin, Viola, Flute), the Vienna Suite convolution (Schubert Saal) and tail reverb. That's all.

    This is a sonic pre-study for a new piece (for viola, cello and flute) that comes next.

    Beethoven, Serenata Op25, Menuet

    Have a good listen!

    Jos
  • PaoloTP
    PaoloTP

    Jos, thank you very much for this wonderful piece, full of joy and hope.

    All the love to your dear mother.

    Paolo
  • W
    W

    Hi Jos,

    I am sorry to hear about your mother. I hope you find peace, and it is good to work on music for that I know from personal experience.  When everything else goes bad, I turn to music.  Maybe the only thing that can make one feel better. 

    It is good to see you posting pieces here again - that is something I really missed on the VSL Forum - your music.  On this performance it sounds great.  You are going to do a composition of your own using a similar instrumentation?  I would definitely look forward to hearing that.  The only critique I have is I thought I noticed the "global" legato setting - you might change it to  "mono" on these instruments.  But otherwise it sounds excellent.  I hope  you can continue posting music here - it is some of the very best!       
  • J
    J

    Thanks Paolo and William for the comforting words and advice.

    A new version has been posted, including William's suggestion.

    Jos

     
     
  • M
    M

    Hi Jos, Good to hear something from you! To begin with I wish you all you need in the caring tasks and support for your mother and I wish for your mother all she needs. And concerning your performance I had just one word (in Dutch): wonderschoon!, that is in English (for the readers that don't speak dutch) wonderful, but in my feeling stronger than that, in fact a combination of wonderful and beautiful. The care for every note, in timing, in sound, in everything, wow!Thank you for sharing, Jos, and God bless.
  • J
    J

    Thanks, MMKA for your comforting words and your nice comment.

    Jos

     
     
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