Sheet music available here: https://www.magle.dk/shop/product/sunset-for-piano-sheet-music-pdf/ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, etc: https://listen.magle.dk/sunset Sunset for piano is, at its core, a simple piece, but one with a long and somewhat storied development. A kind of song without words, its first iteration came in 1998 as a work for piano or guitar, with strings; the theme, however, Magle had completed some three years earlier. An arrangement for solo piano came ten years later, with final smaller edits being made in 2023. A simple piece it may be, but each component included within it is tuned to its respective finest. The main melody, which progresses in long, sweeping arcs over the rest of the texture, is melancholy and tender without ever drifting into the territory of kitsch or melodramatic; the undulating couplets underneath providing a gently lilting rhythmic propulsion to the work, enlivening the texture while still leaving it skeletal and fragile. The work’s harmonies are tonal but decidedly Romantic and often rely on extensions and inversions, with the resulting mood being simultaneously emotive and unsettled. While Sunset begins unassumingly enough, a wistful air permeating the sound, it starts to stir – the bassline drops and the texture fills out more. A tenor countermelody engages the principal theme in a mournful counterpoint. From there it develops further, but the harmonies start to jar – the sun may be going down, but there seems to be, to paraphrase Dylan Thomas, a certain sense of rage against the dying of the light. We come to the work’s climax, a reiteration of the first theme in pedal octaves and full-handed walls of cascading chords – but it is in vain. The struggle conceded, we lose our grounding at the foot of the piano, and a final haunting rendition of the theme at the highest reaches of the composition leads us away. The sun has set, and we are left staring into the stars. (Notes by Acorus Calamus) Recorded by Frederik Magle on the Steinway concert grand piano in MillFactory Studios, Copenhagen, in March 2023. Recording engineer, mixing and mastering: Boe Larsen. Frederik Magle, composer, organist, and pianist: https://www.magle.dk https://www.facebook.com/frederikmagle https://www.instagram.com/frederikmagle #romanticmusic #classicalmusic #piano #melancholy #sheetmusic #easypiano

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