Symphony 1 - D-minor

[Raymond63]

Proudly I present my first Symphony in D minor. The story is based upon the Book of Revelations.

Part 1 (deel 1)[16:10]: Chapter 18 - the soloist is weeping over a lost world, the just destroyed Babylon (from verse 4..)

Part 2 (deel 2)[11:13] Chapter 9 - the marching troops and machinery are nearing the Earth, but still people refuse to recognize the majesty of God and continue with their murdering and festivities - the soloist is dragged into this, but at the end realized what he is doing, just before the final destruction takes place.

Part 3 (deel 3)[11:24] Chapter 7 - The blessed from all nations bring worship to God

Part 4 (deel 4)[13:09] Chapter 8.... - Scenes of battle and victory, the 5th trumpet sounds, to end with the Hymn Victimae Páschali Laudes

The link: http://www.box.net/shared/t9hsyeoo7skici7i2yi1
It all takes about 52 minutes. Rendered with headphones only, beware of the volume!!! Not compressed audio!

Score: written with Overture, december 2008 - till march 2009.
Midi: used in Sonar 8.5.3 / 64 bits - VSTi EWQL SO Plat+
Audio: imported in Sonar 8.5.3. / 32 bits - because of Altiverb
Wave editor: panning set to 120% - and just a tiny bit of hard limiting.

Raymond

[I edited the link. Also applied some minor changes to the overall rendering. The score is in .pdf format]

[Tatsu Nagao]

Hi Raymond,

The link is broken now as you posted at another thread, but I already downloaded the MP3 files a week ago, so I can listen to them now. Today, I listened partially. Simply stated, they are ambitious and changeful music. I believe you are rather elder, but your music is youthful. I look up to you as a person of an aspirational spirit.

[Raymond63]

Good morning Tatsu,

thank you. Yes, I still don't exactly know what I did with that Box.net, but the result is that "everything" has been deleted. Since I am re-arranging my system, it will take a while to restore those files.
Today we have our national holiday, celebrating the birthday of our queen Beatrix, together with sunshine and a good temperature, who stays at home?

Not me! Still young at heart,

Raymond

[Raymond63]

Tatsu, I never answered your hidden question. Yes, I am elder, 67 years. But I wish to grow older because I have lots of music in my head and on paper, ready to be "compiled".

By the way, I edited the original message with a fresh link to the newly uploaded (same old) Symphony.

Raymond

[Tatsu Nagao]

I already decided you're 67. Don't you know I'm a good guesser, do you?