Well, it's lovely as always, and somehow you manage to do a marvelous job in conveying the exact image you describe, playing in a a vast hall, without audience, only for one's own pleasure. Beautiful.

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Elegant piano piece. Wonderfully composed and masterfully played as usual. I love your feelings while playing, each note speaks... Amazing!

Take Care
- Yeman A. Al-Rawi

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The auditorium stage... the Steinway grand... and the incomparable Mr. Page finding ephemeral bliss between pedal points and arpegiated chords. Love the ever so slight harmonic shifts - that ponder but never quite dare to leave the tonal structure. Deep yearning and reclamation. Well done!

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I'm mesmerised at the lovely sound of this lovely melody and your playing; it's so emotional in many ways, both strong and tender. This really is beautiful ( I wish there was another word to describe it, but there isn't), regards M

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i loved this spacious piece .. great description and wonderfully performed

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You have such awesome talent! Your heartfelt piano playing always moves me beyond words, yet I find myself searching for just the right way to convey to you how much your music touches me. This is yet another gorgeous piece, perfectly described and beautifully played. Thanks for your consistency! :) Another Wonderful song Paul.

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This is a maetsro touch for a whole film score of
the stage and the lingery feelings to all what the
love of the music can brings ...memeories and
delights .thank yu for takin us on such awesome
jounery toward these stages ..the style here so
wide and so open heart like you like to tell us
about these stages ..that was awesome thnx alot
for sharin such gem !!!!

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I think that your little experiment with reverb has worked very well. The echo/sustain has added to the piece in just the right way, and has succeeded (to me) as far a your description and desire.

I once played organ in a masonic lodge. That was just plain eerie. Even playing pop tunes didn't lift the atmosphere.

Take care.

Paul

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This is a special sound ,I think , when a pianist trained to acoustic piano playing plays a digital keyboard .
The digital keyboards have less range in volume contrast especialy in the low volume , very soft playing is harder to manage with them .
The result here, is a wonderfull sound bringing a memory of classical
piano playing with a modern sound .
And the sound is a big part of what makes something new ... (long debate possible here hahaha ... )
Thank you Paul and bravo .


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Beautiful playing - whatever knobs you tweaked you did it right Paul. And it's so much nicer this way - no shuffling audience feet, sniffing noses, muted coughs. Just you and your gorgeous flowing music. A very classical feel to this piece. Great job, thanks for sharing!

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Love the way you waft between the romantic period and the light jazzy modern style here... your control of tempo and dynamics are so fluid here, really a delight to listen to. And after reading your description (and before I hit play) I was worried about you turning up the reverb too far, but you gave just the perfect amount of presence, keeping it from getting muddy. Excellent recording work here!
ttfn,
Drakonis

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Paul, you are such a master! You've been so prolific lately, and this is one of my most faves of yours so far. Your touch on that keyboard is masterful - incredible key changes - Beetoven has NOTHING on you - really, I'm not kidding. Why aren't you on a world tour playing your music for the world? I ask you, WHY??

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wonderful

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*sigh - just beautiful - the last thing i am listening to today - it's late, this is lovely and it has me close to tears in its purity - thank you so much xox

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...are often measured in in the quality of sound that returns to you, but when that sound is intercepted and thankfully returned, it is a more meaningful return. And this, I return to you, with my thanks. Terry

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I'm speechless. This is one of my macjams favs! I love the sound you got. What kid of keyboard the action sounds close to a real piano/

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...so beautiful...

Thanks for the sharing of sounds and history. A true gem, Paul...

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Paul, I think the angels were twirling down the aisles. Your pieces fill me with emotion. So lovely and elegant, so heartfelt and poignant. Not enough words to describe the beauty of it. :-)

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...other than your obvious desire to dwell in your high Tibetan monastery, for you not to be playing your pieces in concert halls for real, and having your CD's in the few remaining high traffic display areas in music stores...

You know, my Paul F. Page collection is now fifty-seven pieces, for a total of about three and a half hours of music... I bet I could sit down and listen to it all some quiet Sunday in one go and not come away tired of it...

I continue to think that you are getting the perfect sound out of Ivory, too...

Ed

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This is a lovely piece, Paul. Sort of a Billy-Joel-Meets_Chopin effect. Lots of beautiful ornamentation, but not excessive. Many chord sequences that evoke either Joel or Chopin.

Dynamic contrasts are especially effective in this piece. You're not just a banger, you've got real chops in your fingers and in your head (and your heart!).

The Ivory plug-in sounds very authentic. I have recently decided to abandon NI Akoustik Piano in favor of returning to S. Ivory. I have not been able to use Akoustik Piano ever since I upgraded to OSX.5. I have been in contact with their tech support by e-mail for several months, and we can't seem to get it resolved.

So I was an Ivory man first, and to that I'll return. I have to reinstall it, and buy one of those USB iLok keys for 45.00, but I think it will be worth it.

I said all that to say, that the German Steinway is the first setting that I'm going to check out, once I'm up and running again. What a beautiful, natural, unaffected sound. When I used Ivory in the past, I mostly did the Jazz C7 (Yamaha, I think), and I ignored other presets, thinking I had found "the sound." But I tired of it after awhile, and that's what brought me to Akoustik. But there's a lot more to Ivory than the Jazz C7, and it may very well be that the German Steinway will be my voice of choice. (It rhymes!)

All the best,

John


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