My Compositions

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

Scherzo for piano four hands.

Posted on September 2, 2011 at 6:00 AM

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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.

Scherzo: Allegro e Agitato - 2nd Symphony part 3

Posted on August 22, 2011 at 8:00 AM

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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!

Dolce e cantabile - 2nd movement, 2nd symphony

Posted on August 12, 2011 at 3:45 AM

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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...

2nd Symphony - movement 4: Allegro con fuoco

Posted on July 30, 2011 at 9:27 AM

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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

The Lost Child - orchestral music

Posted on July 24, 2011 at 7:47 AM

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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

Rewriting music for cello and piano

Posted on April 5, 2009 at 4:32 PM

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After finishing my latest piece, "A Searching Child", for piano solo and for violin and piano ( piano solo: A searching child
piano and violin: A Searching child ), I decided to have a look again at my cello and piano arrangements of my piano "moments". I already made versions of some of the Moment pieces for this duo but now I have found musicians who really seem to like them, I have decided to rework all the movements .

Here again are the seperate movements of "moments" for piano:

1. After work, in the night

2. Cat's play

3. A midday nap

4. At work

5. Who's there?

6. Goodnight - There he goes!

And here they are for violin and piano:

1. After work, in the night - Played by Matthew Weiss, violin, and Bill Clarke, piano.

2. Cat's play - recorded on my mac...

3. A midday nap - recorded on my mac...

4. At work - recorded on my mac...