André van Haren

Cat's Play - for string quartet

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:30:00 +0000

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

String quartet: After work, Late at night.

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:40:00 +0000

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

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

Allegro con Brio: Symphony no. 2

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:20:00 +0000

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.

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:00:00 +0000

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

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:00:00 +0000

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

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 07:45:00 +0000

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

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 13:27:00 +0000

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

website improvements...

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:44:00 +0000

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.

Networking...

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:04:00 +0000

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!

The Lost Child - orchestral music

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 11:47:00 +0000

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