Studio Philharmonico

In 2017 I did have a commission to create a rendition (among others) of Sibelius' "Karelia Suite", as part of the sound track for a documentary film. Now in January 2024 I began to re-work this rendition, to make it a bit more expressive than in 2017, to fix a few notes, to set a more appropriate tempo.  Since Sibelius died in 1957, he is not yet more than 70 years dead - therefore his music compositions are still under copyright. So when looking for a music distributor which would support "cover songs" (music that is performed by someone else who has the music composition copyright), I decided to try DittoMusic  (see my post  Music Distribution Ditto Music ). I first wanted to use Soundrop: a few years ago they were really good at publishing music compositions which were "cover songs", and I had a few releases with them. But recently they had become extremely slow in publishing releases. And there were some problems with my releases: several of them h...

In December 2023 I recorded a few new live piano improvisations with my MIDI keyboard, using the Steinway sample from "Garritan Personal Orchestra 5". I then did a few minor edits and created audio files.  Originally these were mostly kind of "Träumerei" and "Fantasia", but I then did come up with other names: Dreamery Walking Through Sounds Fantasia Powerful Longing Affirmative There was originally a 7th track to be included, but it was longer than 10 minutes, and LevelMusic did have some trouble with that. The seventh track was then published as a single on Soundrop, but is not yet online. I did publish them at LevelMusic, to try out this service. So far I had only minor problems, as described here in one of my previous posts:  Music Distribution: Level Music  . The release is now apparently on 171 online music sites. As of today (27 Jan 2024) the release is online at 6 music sites: (click on the above picture, then the most current list of music sites w...