Preview track from a Christmas album in progress! A beautiful version of "Coventry Carol" featuring the crystalline voice of Elizabeth Rogers with an ensemble of 15 cellos arranged and performed by Eugene Friesen.
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Exquisitely graceful, beautiful, and innovative music making by two seasoned masters. Mixed and mastered by Grammy-winning engineer Tom Eaton.
“I absolutely love this album!!! I’ve listened again and again. Your playing is superb, as always, and I’ve rarely heard jazz piano played as seamlessly and expressively as this. The album makes every single day a Perfect Day.”
— Kathryn Kaye - pianist/composer/recording artist
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Grammy Award-winning cellist/composer Eugene Friesen's most requested recordings from four solo albums: The Song of Rivers, In the Shade of Angels, Sono Miho, and Colorful Transitions.
Guests include Howard Levy, Tim Ray, Paul Halley , Glen Velez, Chuck Loeb and Jody Elff.
Eugene's signature improvisation on a Bartok theme is transcribed from a 2009 performance available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGYLfoPK5S4
A virtuosic concert piece showcasing Eugene's innnovative left hand pizzicato techniques, strumming and pull-offs. Suitable also with other improvising instruments, lead sheet included.
SLAP is an etude designed to activate a couple of left hand techniques that bring rhythmic color and texture into accompanying on the cello, namely, a left hand slap on the fingerboard and the use of muted pizzicato notes for conveying the consistent flow of the pulse. Download includes a page of notes and tips.
A skipping pizzicato pattern and chord progression in 9/8 time which places the cello in the center of a piece for diverse improvising instruments.
Originally an improvisation in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, this contemplative piece from Missa Gaia/Earth Mass by the Paul Winter Consort is a dramatic 4-minute cello solo featuring unique use of natural harmonics.
This is the first twelve bars - the "head" - that I play twice at the beginning and once at the end of my blues improv. This pizzicato "head" is one of many possible variations on a blues progression and my improv follows the 12-bar phrasing and progression.
For effected cello (digital delay) and recording of humpback whale. Optional accompaniment for keyboard/organ included (older file, some beams missing!) String and full orchestra accompaniment also available.
"MARACAIBO" is an uptempo piece in 6/8 featuring beautiful melodies, lush harmonies, contrasting sections, with intensely polyrhythmic interplay between the parts. Scored for string quartet: V1, V2, Vla, Vc.
Eugene's signature improvisation on a Bartok theme is transcribed from a 2009 performance available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGYLfoPK5S4
"MARACAIBO" is an uptempo piece in 6/8 featuring beautiful melodies, lush harmonies, contrasting sections, with intensely polyrhythmic interplay between the parts. Scored for 5 cellos and optional harp/guitar/piano/mandolin. Premiered at the Rio International Cello Encounter in 2009 with 30 cellos, harp, and percussion.
"MARACAIBO" is an uptempo piece in 6/8 featuring beautiful melodies, lush harmonies, contrasting sections, with intensely polyrhythmic interplay between the parts. Scored for V1, V2, Vla, Vc, and Bass with optional harp/pno/gtr/mandolin