As a professional musician, much time goes into the preparation of videos and audio tracks that go public. In addition to the necessity of paying for colleagues if I want to make a video/track. So, all the music that I have shared on Steemit has been from my personal archives from projects that had previously been recorded as a side note to the actual concerts.

I thought it would be nice to collect the posts into a single post update that collected all the past performances that I had released onto Steemit.

All these performances are live and unedited, if you are interested you can also listen to these tracks on my Musicoin artist page.

Excerpt from the Markus Passion

This is an aria for Soprano and solo violin (that's me!), that was part of the completion of the Markus Passion (JS Bach) by Jorn Boysen performed with @musicapoetica. This is one of my all time favourite arias to accompany on violin, it is such a beautiful piece, made all the more so as it appears right after the moment of unimaginable despair. For me, it represents the hope and the light that is possible at the bottom of the pit.

Ein Mädchen from Die Jahreszeiten - Haydn

This is "The Maid" from Haydn's Seasons, arranged from string quartet by myself. It was performed as an encore piece to a concert that I gave with my group, in a string quartet and soprano setting (the configuration changes as required!).

It is a light hearted piece about a young girl trying to fend of f the unwanted advances of a nobleman.

Here is the English translation of the text:

A Lord rode out one sunny morn to view the meadows round,
And spied a pretty country maid come tripping o’er the ground.
Dismounting from his milk-white steed he said “Come kiss your Lord”.
She trembling stood there and obeyed, poor girl, quite overawed.
[‘Fie, fie, why not say no?’]

He took this fair maid for a walk, her hand within his own;
“I want to purchase your true heart: ‘tis you I love alone!
I’ll make you happy. Take my purse, my ring, my watch so fine;
And if you want still more from me, then speak and it is thine!”
[‘Fie, fie, that sounds too good!’]

“Kind sir” she said, “I pray take care; my brothers - they might see.
And if they spread the tale about, what would become of me?
Were they not working quite so nigh I fear that I might yield.
Climb up upon that bank and see if they are in the field.”
[‘Ha, ha, what happened then?’]

Now as the Lord rose up to look, the maid to his dismay
Leapt on his steed, and like the wind she quickly tore away.
“I’ll go no more a-roving with you, kind sir” she cried.
He stood there in a fearful rage: denied, and then defied!
[‘Ha, ha, a pretty pass, the clever lass!’]

Crucifixion by Biber

... and for a bit of fireworks, a virtuosic piece by Biber from the Mystery (Rosary) sonatas for scordatura (mistuned) violin. This one was great fun to play, and it one of my go to pieces for a bit of an audience pleaser!

If you listen closely, there is a funny Easter egg near the end. Something that is oddly fitting given the subject of the sonata. The perils of live recording!

Grave from Bach's BWV1003 for solo violin.

The original post is here: https://dsound.audio/#!/@bengy/adagio-from-bwv-1003-live-unedited. I haven't uploaded this to soundcloud yet.

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