André van Haren

Working on a string quartet version of the original piano piece, titled "Cat's Play"...

Finished recording a piece for string quartet: "After work, Late at night"

https://www.box.net/shared/epu65teackia187ed23e

After having finished the 2nd, 3rd and 4th movement of my second symphony, all that is left is the first movement: Allegro con brio. The piece is written, based as it is on my 1st piano sonata so it's a matter of orchestrating it what is actually not always that difficullt because I knw how I want it to be. The most time goes into figureing out where what goes. 

This morning I worked on the 1st theme in the exposition of the Allegro, finished the strings, woodwinds and brass. Tomorrow I will start orchestrating the second theme what will be a mix of all solo woodwinds, aksing for attention one by one, expressing the 2nd theme.

André

Just finished the recording of the Scherzo of my second symphony. Today i am going to start making an arrangement from this same Scherzo for piano 4 hands. I wrote a nice piano solo part for this in the past that I never used and why waste good notes? Let's see where it goes.

Last week I started with recording the 3rd movement, the Scherzo, of my Second Symphony, the "Laura Lee". Today I finished recording all the string parts and now are working on the woodwinds. Good sounding results!

Started the recording of the Dolce e cantabile today. Needs a lot of fine tuning but that will come later after I finished recording the whole piece. I use the Sonivox Complete Orchestral Collection for this. This piece needs a solo violin and solo viola as well, something the Sonivox collection doesn't has, so I am pulling them from the Kontakt 4 version of Vienna. Little bit disappointed by their sounds...

For the last year I am working on recording my 2nd symphony in Logic 9 Studio. I finished the 2nd and 4th movement which you can hear here:

http://www.andrevanharen.com/newmusic.htm

This morning I recorded the A section (Theme 1) for all instruments (woodwinds, strings and brass). I am very happy with the results without even having to do much adjusting or editing work. Of course I will still have to work on the volume mix but this is something I will save till the end, after having recorded all the instruments of the whole piece.

This is the first time I work with my new software package: Complete Symphonic Collection by Sonivox, an unbelievable great present from Richard Schletty, a good friend of mine from America. The results are so much better than the recordings that I made with other orchestral software. Probably I will rerecord all my music with this new software when I can find the time for that. My goal for now, however is to finish this symphony. (I still have to orchestrate the 1st movement!)

André

I made some changes on the website, it really needed to be cleaned up. I added Twitter and a google search +1 button on every page.

I am doing a lot of networking recently, trying out Twitter, facebook connect etc... Just a little post now to see how things are flowing!

Finished recording and editing the score layout for the orchestra piece "The Lost Child".

You can hear the music here: The Lost Child music

And you can see and order the score here: The Lost Child score