Category: Sunday Sounds

Sunday Sounds

Tammy Howarth composed this while a second year student at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.

I first heard Tammy’s original music posted on SoundCloud before she had finished schooling in Pembrokeshire, and was immediately struck by her originality and talent.

“Aftermath” is a deeply reflective piece, its engaging melody underpinned by subtle arrangement and production. Unlike many pieces in a so-called “post-minimal” style, the arrangement never becomes too much, drowning out the core piano content … it’s this musical sensitivity, restraint and sophistication that I find particularly striking and appealing.

I hope you enjoy this too!

Follow: Tammy Howarth on SoundCloud

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Sunday Sounds shines a regular spotlight on great music, featuring YouTube and audio tracks of pianists past and present, classical and jazz, as well as great new music discoveries.

Sunday Sounds

The Sunday Sounds feature will occasionally feature my own original piano compositions, and it seems fitting to begin where I myself started.

This piece was improvised late one night some years ago. Listening back to it I realised that the structure and musical content was satisfactory without any editing, and when I subsequently set up my own SoundCloud account, it was the first piano track that I ever shared.

From the start, it has proved popular with listeners, and if this is your first encounter with it, I hope you will enjoy the piece!

Follow: Andrew Eales on SoundCloud

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Sunday Sounds shines a regular spotlight on great music, featuring YouTube and audio tracks of pianists past and present, classical and jazz, as well as great new music discoveries.

Sunday Sounds

Manchester based pianist and composer Terry Robinson says of this beautiful composition:

My wife bought a fabulous original watercolour painting of purple poppies and she left it on the music stand of my piano. As I sat down to practice I gazed at the painting and improvised this track. It has two aspects – the present day image of poppies blowing in the wind and the associated remembrance of soldiers who died in battle.

I recorded the improvisation and practised it until I could play the left hand part without it sounding too amateurish – at the end of recording the track my left hand felt about ready to fall off!

It’s a great track! Have a listen:

Follow: Terry Robinson on SoundCloud

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Sunday Sounds shines a regular spotlight on great music, featuring YouTube and audio tracks of pianists past and present, classical and jazz, as well as great new music discoveries.

Sunday Sounds

One of the loveliest piano solos I have heard on SoundCloud, “The Break of Dawn” is composed by Christian Smith, a 21 year old composer from Hampshire, England, specialising in romantic and uplifting piano and string compositions.

Christian writes:

After 9 months of writers block, and many failed attempts, I have finally managed to complete a composition.

And what a composition it is!

Follow: Christian Smith on SoundCloud

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Sunday Sounds shines a regular spotlight on great music, featuring YouTube and audio tracks of pianists past and present, classical and jazz, as well as great new music discoveries.