Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The Crossing by Ola Gjeilo, from his debut album Ola Gjeilo (Decca Classics).
Originally written as a piano/strings work, the piece unfolds in long, sustained lines with a clear and luminous harmonic language. In this piano version, the texture is reduced to its core - melody, harmony, and space.
Ola Gjeilo is best known for his choral writing, often blending classical, cinematic, and ambient elements into a very transparent and tonal sound world.
The Crossing reflects this aesthetic - calm, expansive, and quietly radiant.
*Ola Gjeilo is one of the most frequently performed composers in the choral world. An accomplished pianist, improvisations over his own published choral pieces have become a trademark of his collaborations. Although Norwegian by birth, it is perhaps Ola’s adopted country of America that has influenced the composer’s distinctive soundworld the most, evolving a style that is often described as cinematic and evocative, with a lush, harmonious sound.
Ola grew up in a musically eclectic home listening to classical, jazz, pop and folk, a broad background he later incorporated into his classical composition studies at The Juilliard School, the Royal College of Music in London, and currently as a New York City-based freelance composer. He is especially inspired by the improvisational art of film composer Thomas Newman, jazz legends Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny, glass artist Dale Chihuly and architect Frank Gehry.
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The Crossing by Ola Gjeilo, from his debut album Ola Gjeilo (Decca Classics).
Originally written as a piano/strings work, the piece unfolds in long, sustained lines with a clear and luminous harmonic language. In this piano version, the texture is reduced to its core - melody, harmony, and space.
Ola Gjeilo is best known for his choral writing, often blending classical, cinematic, and ambient elements into a very transparent and tonal sound world.
The Crossing reflects this aesthetic - calm, expansive, and quietly radiant.
*Ola Gjeilo is one of the most frequently performed composers in the choral world. An accomplished pianist, improvisations over his own published choral pieces have become a trademark of his collaborations. Although Norwegian by birth, it is perhaps Ola’s adopted country of America that has influenced the composer’s distinctive soundworld the most, evolving a style that is often described as cinematic and evocative, with a lush, harmonious sound.
Ola grew up in a musically eclectic home listening to classical, jazz, pop and folk, a broad background he later incorporated into his classical composition studies at The Juilliard School, the Royal College of Music in London, and currently as a New York City-based freelance composer. He is especially inspired by the improvisational art of film composer Thomas Newman, jazz legends Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny, glass artist Dale Chihuly and architect Frank Gehry.
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![Max Richter - Leo (from My Brilliant Friend) [Reworked] / @coversart](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YhlRs_efL78/mqdefault.jpg "Max Richter - Leo (from My Brilliant Friend) [Reworked] / @coversart
Max Richter - Leo [Reworked] from My Brilliant Friend
Leo is a composition by Max Richter, originally released as a bonus track on his 2006 album Songs from Before.
In 2020, Richter revisited Leo, creating a new arrangement titled Leo (MBF Version) for the soundtrack of the second season of the television series My Brilliant Friend.
*Max Richter (born March 22, 1966) is a German-British composer, pianist, and producer known for blending classical music with electronic and ambient elements. His works, such as On the Nature of Daylight, Sleep, and The Blue Notebooks, have had a profound influence on contemporary classical music. Richter’s compositions have been widely used in films, TV shows, and ballet performances, creating deeply emotional and immersive soundscapes.
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![Max Richter - Sub Piano [Reworked] / @coversart](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_g4RMx5u8c8/mqdefault.jpg "Max Richter - Sub Piano [Reworked] / @coversart
Max Richter - Sub Piano (from Infra) Reworked
A few days ago I was posting shorts with a composition by Max Richter, and then I thought that short was too short. And so I recorded an extended version of Sub Piano. But I could not stop there and immediately recorded another melodic layer. And then another overdub, and another. And here is the result.
*Sub Piano is a bonus track from Infra - a studio album by neo-classical composer Max Richter, released on July 19, 2010, on FatCat Records. The album was reissued on April 25, 2014, on Deutsche Grammophon.
The concept for the Infra (Latin for ‘below’) is a comment on contemporary political issues with roots in the literary canon. Infra was written as a reaction to the 2005 ‘7/7’ subway bombings in London and was inspired by T.S. Eliot’s modernist poem, The Waste Land. It was originally composed for the highly acclaimed eponymous Royal Opera House ballet production, choreographed by Wayne McGregor and premiering in 2008. The piece reveals an emotive journey across oscillating individual and societal landscapes.
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![Henry Purcell - Ground in C minor [Visualizer] / @coversart](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_wlw8edX3FI/mqdefault.jpg "Henry Purcell - Ground in C minor [Visualizer] / @coversart
Henry Purcell - Ground in C Minor, ZD 221
My piano interpretations of Henry Purcell’s Ground in C minor (ZD 221) is now available on all streaming platforms.
Listen: https://album.link/ground
*“Ground in C Minor, ZD 221” is traditionally attributed to Henry Purcell, one of the most important composers of 17th-century England. Celebrated for his dramatic vocal works, sacred music, and refined keyboard writing, Purcell possessed a remarkable gift for combining structural clarity with harmonic boldness.
The piece reflects the Baroque fascination with variation over a repeating bass line (ground bass or ostinato) - a form Purcell mastered with striking emotional economy. Built upon a persistent descending pattern in C minor, the music unfolds through subtle harmonic shifts and increasingly ornate melodic figures, creating an atmosphere of gravity and inward tension.
However, the authorship of this work remains uncertain. While long associated with Purcell and catalogued as ZD 221, it has also been attributed to William Croft, appearing as part of his Suite No. 3. Such dual attribution reflects the fluid manuscript culture of the late 17th century, when stylistic proximity and the circulation of keyboard works often obscured clear authorship.
**Henry Purcell (c. 10 September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer and organist of the middle Baroque era. He was extremely prolific, having composed more than 100 songs, a tragic opera Dido and Aeneas, and wrote incidental music to a version of Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream called The Fairy Queen.
Purcells musical style was uniquely English, although it incorporated Italian and French elements. Purcell is generally considered to be one of the greatest English composers.
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