Erik Satie's Sarabande No. 1 is one of my favourite piano pieces. For a long time, I felt there was an a cappella choral piece hiding within it, in plain sight. One day I got inspired and gave it a try. Creating a choral adaptation of a piano piece ha...  moreErik Satie's Sarabande No. 1 is one of my favourite piano pieces. For a long time, I felt there was an a cappella choral piece hiding within it, in plain sight. One day I got inspired and gave it a try. Creating a choral adaptation of a piano piece has its challenges. I tried to keep faithful to Satie's original musical inspiration and created lyrics to go with my arrangement that evoke an early summer morning, one of my favourite times of the year. Several months later, I applied to be a participant at one of the Vancouver Chamber Choir's Interplay workshops funded by the SOCAN Foundation and to my delight I was accepted. "As dawn breaks" was one of the pieces that this amazing choir sight read for me on the spot. VCC director Jon Washburn and choir members then provided me with valuable feedback, for which I am very grateful. NB: One day I woke up to the realization that I had independently written four choral works, each of which had evoked a different season, and so it seemed natural to group ...    less

Bach Badinerie Medley (Johann Sebastian Bach Badinerie Suite No2, Toccata & Fugue Re-Minor) - «Жарт» Йоганна Себастьяна Баха, у виконанні Академічного камерного хору «Хрещатик», у сучасному перекладі а-капела – композитор Євген Петриченко, диригент - Павл...  moreBach Badinerie Medley (Johann Sebastian Bach Badinerie Suite No2, Toccata & Fugue Re-Minor) - «Жарт» Йоганна Себастьяна Баха, у виконанні Академічного камерного хору «Хрещатик», у сучасному перекладі а-капела – композитор Євген Петриченко, диригент - Павло Струць, хормейстер – Оксана Дондик, режисер - Наталія Бегма, солісти: Наталія Бегма, Констянтин Мозговий, Ольга Романенко, Дмитро Сьомкін, Ігор Пашинський, Марина Сусько, аудіо, відео - Віктор Бондаренко, 2021. Joke by Johann Sebastian Bach performed by the Khreschatyk Academic Chamber Choir . The modern arrangement for choir of the a cappella by Eugene Petrichenko, conductor -Paulo Struts, choirmaster- Oksana Dondyk, director - Natalia Begma, soloists: Natalia Begma, Konstantin Mozgovy, Olga Romanenko, Dmitry Semkin, Igor Pashinsky, Marina Susko, video, audio - Victor Bondarenko, 2021. #бахжарт #бахшутка #бахвсовременнойобработке #хорбахмузика #класикавсучаснійобробці #вокальнамузикаслухати #bach #bachjoke #chorusbachmusic #classicalinmodernsounding ...    less

Adapted from Gustav Holst's 'The Planets' Suite - Holst set two verses of a poem by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice using part of 'Jupiter'. This arrangement by Paul Ayres www.paulayres.co.uk Conducted by David Crown