pixie_twinkle 48 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 My piece "Don Quixote in Love" for soprano sax and string orchestra has just been released on Centaur Records (CRC2889/90). Greg Banaszak is the soloist, and the orchestra is the Beethoven Festival Orchestra under Piotr Borkowski. It was recorded in Krakow, Poland a couple of Summers ago, and the CD was released finally this week. It is on www.centaurrecords.com. The CD is called "Romances for Saxophone and Orchestra", and you can see a picture of it under the link "new releases".I checked Amazon but it's not there yet. I was hoping they would sell it so you could click on an audio sample. Hopefully it'll appear on Amazon over the next few weeks.This is my first piece widely released on CD, and needless to say I'm chuffed to bits and pleased as punch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckM 1 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 That's awesome!Hope it sells well for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ST-321 4 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Congratulations pixie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker 5 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Is there a torrent for this yet?Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Awesome!Can't wait to hear this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Oh, that is AWESOME!!!!!! I wonder if it'll be availible on iTunes?You're well on your way to becoming the next great composer of our time!Hoorah for Pixie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 How cool can you get? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fommes 153 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Very! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Andrade 1,263 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Hooray for pixie twinkle!Congratulations on this one. If a sample of your work pops up, please do let us now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maglorfin 196 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Congratulations on this one. If a sample of your work pops up, please do let us now My words exactly! Really, congrats, and when there'll be a sample available, do bring it to our attention! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandor 797 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Insanely cool and congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Don't you have a website with info and samples? Most composers these days are into that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Make sure it's Flash based and takes hours to load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 Funny you should say that. I've JUST made a website with a couple of very cheesy photos and a couple of PDF score extracts. So far there are no sound clips, but I'm going to fix that. www.jamesleatherbarrow.comThanks for all the kind words. I won't be making a penny off sales of the CD, any profits will go to the soloist and producer who poured a lot of their own money into making the CD. Greg has said he plans to take some of the music from the CD on tour. I'm really excited about that! Mine is one of the easiest pieces on the CD to play so it should be a shoe-in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Congrats, pixie! Or should I say James now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Barnsbury 8 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Well done, congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 Congrats, pixie! Or should I say James now? Argh, the secret's out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacob 0 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Cool. Very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,679 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 You rock ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salacius 7 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 My piece "Don Quixote in Love" for soprano sax and string orchestra has just been released on Centaur Records (CRC2889/90). Greg Banaszak is the soloist, and the orchestra is the Beethoven Festival Orchestra under Piotr Borkowski. It was recorded in Krakow, Poland a couple of Summers ago, and the CD was released finally this week. It is on www.centaurrecords.com. The CD is called "Romances for Saxophone and Orchestra", and you can see a picture of it under the link "new releases".I checked Amazon but it's not there yet. I was hoping they would sell it so you could click on an audio sample. Hopefully it'll appear on Amazon over the next few weeks.This is my first piece widely released on CD, and needless to say I'm chuffed to bits and pleased as punch.Well done !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus 390 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Congratulations, James!I am very happy for you! And I look forward to hearing it hopefully soon; either here, or on disc.And I enjoyed checking out the excerpts posted on your website very much!So I take it you have a thing for Cervantes? And Strauss as well?Very best,Marcus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Good for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Congratulations, my friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxbabe 28 Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 James, I'm so happy for you! It seems like ages since we first talked about this (2 yrs ago, I think!) and now it's finally here - big congrats. As a sax player myself, I very much look forward to hearing it!Do you have the finished product in your hands yet? Displayed proudly on the mantle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docteur Qui 1,544 Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Wow, congratulations. Hope I can give it a listen soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry B 50 Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Congrats, James. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted January 4, 2008 Author Share Posted January 4, 2008 James, I'm so happy for you! It seems like ages since we first talked about this (2 yrs ago, I think!) and now it's finally here - big congrats. As a sax player myself, I very much look forward to hearing it!Do you have the finished product in your hands yet? Displayed proudly on the mantle? You were the first member of the board I told. I had known it was scheduled to be recorded for a few months, but I didn't want to tell anyone until it HAD been recorded in case it never happened and people thought I was making up stories! Once the recording had happened I knew it had to appear on CD. Recording sessions with an orchestra cost a small fortune, and there's no way they would waste valuable hours recording the piece only to cut it from the CD. Actually Greg told me they rehearsed the piece once, then recorded it twice, and cut the final version together from those two recordings! The entire session lasted less than an hour. The end result sounds beautiful, so I know these were very professional players. I actually got a pre-release copy of the CD about 2 months ago, but the CD didn't become available until a few days ago. The sleeve notes for the booklet were written by Dr Myron Schwager who regularly writes sleeve notes for the Emerson Quartet. It's an honour to see his sleeve notes about my little piece! He clearly listened through the music several times to get a feel for its structure before writing his notes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salacius 7 Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Any chance of a sound clip? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted January 5, 2008 Author Share Posted January 5, 2008 If anyone can tell me how to make one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AI 0 Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 better a shameless plug, than a shameless thug! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted January 5, 2008 Author Share Posted January 5, 2008 Good news comes in pairs apparently. My Green Card just arrived! I can now come and go from the US without having to stand in the Immigration line for an hour! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Why would you want to return to the "land of the free"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted January 6, 2008 Author Share Posted January 6, 2008 CDs and DVDs are so cheap here. And as for gas prices... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Thanks to the weak dollar cd's and dvd's are cheap here too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted January 7, 2008 Author Share Posted January 7, 2008 It has to be said, I'd far rather be earning pounds sterling and spending them in the U.S. than earning dollars which are worth crap when I take them to the U.K. on vacation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,630 Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 Can I download this yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted January 7, 2008 Author Share Posted January 7, 2008 I think I'll get in trouble if I put the whole thing online (plus I don't know how). Really this CD is Greg Banaszak's baby and I don't think he'll want me putting the whole track online. However I really want to put an excerpt from it somewhere. I just checked i-tunes and neither of Greg's previous CDs are there so I doubt this one will be available on i-tunes either. I'm still hoping it'll appear on Amazon at some point with a sound clip. In the meantime I'm going to try and find out how I can make a clip and post it. Sorry I'm useless at this kind of thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted February 29, 2008 Author Share Posted February 29, 2008 BUMP!I'm sorry I haven't figured out how to put a clip of my piece on the internet, but I just found this:http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7619438It's a site selling the Greg Banaszak CD with my piece "Don Quixote in Love". There's an audio clip you can listen to. Unfortunately it's only 30 seconds long, and with the fade out at the beginning and end it doesn't leave much to hear. It will at least give you an idea of the style of the piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 My computer won't play either types of the audio files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry B 50 Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 Sounds nice, James. Very pastoral. One issue, though: it's panned sharply to the left! I assume you didn't really have control over the mixing, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 Sounds like a lovely piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric_JWFAN 11 Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 I love it, congratulations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Barnsbury 8 Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 Very nice sample from the piece, and congrats on getting it recorded and released! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted February 29, 2008 Author Share Posted February 29, 2008 Sounds nice, James. Very pastoral. One issue, though: it's panned sharply to the left! I assume you didn't really have control over the mixing, though.The CD itself sounds fine (at least the copy I got was fine!). I'm assuming it's just the clip that has the panning issues. Did I wonder if any of the other sound clips on that web page have the same problem.Thanks for the comments everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewdog1 50 Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 Congratulations Pixie, er maestro James! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted March 1, 2008 Author Share Posted March 1, 2008 Stewdog! Haven't seen you rounds these parts in a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewdog1 50 Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Stewdog! Haven't seen you rounds these parts in a while. Yeah, I take a peek every now and then. Having a 2 and a 4 year old, plus increasing responsibilities at work have taken a toll on my free time.However, my 4 year old son absolutely loves listening to Star Wars and other soundtracks. It's so cute listening to him "sing" Luke's theme or the Imperial March. It's even cuter when my two year old little girl tries to do the same thing. He also likes to make up his own Star Wars music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 A composer! If you don't own a piano you might want to get one. Kids that age can be very creative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewdog1 50 Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 A composer! If you don't own a piano you might want to get one. Kids that age can be very creative.Sure do. My wife is a piano teacher for children. She's going to start teaching him this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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