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Allegro con brio for piano and orchestra, D major original, written for synthmax (2026)

A bright, short concerto movement in the classical style of Mozart's day. The orchestra opens with a fanfare. The piano answers with the theme over an Alberti bass, then runs scales while the violins and flute take the tune. The movement closes with a trill and full chords over a timpani roll. The new Steinway-voiced grand piano plays with strings, flute, oboe, bassoon, horns, trumpets and timpani, spread across a wide stage.

Short pieces of music played entirely by synthmax - every instrument synthesized by its own patches, no samples.

Morning Mood Edvard Grieg, from Peer Gynt (1875)

The sunrise theme passes from the flute (over hushed strings) to the oboe (over harp arpeggios), then to the violins with flute and horns as the timpani swell, ending on a full-orchestra E major chord with glockenspiel and a bell. Played by synthmax's orchestra patches: flute, oboe, harp, violin, viola, cello and contrabass sections, horn section, timpani, glockenspiel and tubular bells.

Toreador March Georges Bizet, from Carmen (1875)

A snare and timpani fanfare, then the "Toréador, en garde" refrain twice: first on violins and clarinets over an oom-pah of cellos, tuba and offbeat horns, then on the full brass - trumpets, trombones, horns - with flutes, glockenspiel, cymbals and timpani, ending on a big F major chord. Played by synthmax's orchestra and percussion patches.

Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050 - I. Allegro Johann Sebastian Bach (1721)

The whole first movement, eight and a half minutes, with Bach's famous harpsichord cadenza - the first great solo for a keyboard in a concerto. The concertino of flute, solo violin and harpsichord against the ripieno strings: synthmax's flute, its bowed-string violin, violas, cellos and violone, and a new physically modelled harpsichord with both 8-foot registers coupled. From the public-domain MusicXML edition of Project Gutenberg (EBook #5190, prepared by Geof Pawlicki).

Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050 - III. Allegro Johann Sebastian Bach (1721)

The dancing finale, a gigue-like fugue passed between flute, violin and harpsichord and the strings. From the Mutopia Project's public-domain edition (#548, typeset by Joshua Koo).

Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach

The complete piece, almost nine minutes, on the new PIPE ORGAN in a cathedral. The toccata is on the full organ, every stop drawn and the 32-foot reeds in the pedal: the famous mordent and plunging run, the diminished-seventh chord rolled up over the pedal, then the flying Prestissimo. The fugue is on the principal chorus with its mixture and builds back up to the full organ for the Recitativo, Presto and Molto Adagio of the closing. Played freely, with the fermatas held, as an organist would play it. From the Mutopia Project's public-domain edition (BachJS/BWV565).

Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 - in the manner of Virgil Fox attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach

The same score played the romantic, theatrical way Virgil Fox made famous. The fermatas are held long, the opening runs rush down and broaden into their cadence, and the rolled diminished seventh swells from a closed box. The Prestissimo flies. Repeated phrases are answered as echoes on the closed swell box. The fugue starts on a few soft stops and builds, adding principals, the mixture and then the reeds, to the full organ. The coda's Presto blazes and the final Molto Adagio is very broad. The registration and the swell pedal are played live on synthmax's PIPE ORGAN. This is an interpretation in his style, not a copy of any recording.

The Engine Wakes original, written for synthmax (2026)

A 70s progressive-rock instrumental in the keyboard-trio style. An overdriven Hammond through a fast Leslie, a modular-synth lead that glides between notes, bass and drums, with the pipe organ joining for the climax. It opens with stabs of chords stacked in fourths and moves into a 7/8 riff over an E pedal. A soaring synth theme follows, then a Hammond solo in racing 16th-note sequences. The theme returns with the full organ, and it ends on E major with the lead diving away. Every sound is synthesized.


Instrument Solos

Every instrument of the orchestra, and each grand piano, playing a short solo of its own. The solos are original phrases written in each instrument's range and idiom. They are played with as much expression as the patches allow: dynamics from pianissimo to fortissimo, bow and breath swelling through long notes, vibrato blooming late in held notes, slurs, staccato and accents. The pianos use the sustain pedal.

Strings

Violin
Viola
Cello
Double Bass

Woodwinds

Piccolo
Flute
Oboe
English Horn
Clarinet
Bass Clarinet
Bassoon
Contrabassoon

Brass

Trumpet
French Horn
Trombone
Tuba

Harp and harpsichord

Harp
Harpsichord

Percussion

Timpani
Glockenspiel
Xylophone
Celesta
Tubular Bells

Grand pianos - the same nocturne on each

Concert Grand (Steinway D voicing)
Imperial Grand (Bösendorfer voicing)
Studio Grand (Yamaha C5 voicing)

Patch Demos

Factory patches, recorded straight from synthmax - every sound synthesized, no samples.

Grand Piano
Rhodes Suitcase
Wurlitzer 200A
Bright Perc Leslie
Glass
Tubular Bells
Nylon Guitar
Steel Guitar
12-String Guitar
Saxophone
Sax Section
Slap Bass
Metal Lead
Metal Rhythm
Thrash 80s
Doom Sludge
Rock Drum Kit
Latin Percussion
African Percussion

The orchestra - physical models

Bowed strings, reeds and brass simulated from the physics of the instruments - the bow's friction on the string, the reed and the bore, the buzzing lips - each player with intonation of its own.

Violin
Cello
String Section
Clarinet
Oboe
Trumpet
Horn Section

The pipe organ

Full Organ, Cathedral
Grand Reeds
Flutes + Tremulant
Voix Celeste

Prog and rock keyboards

Prog Hammond
Modular Lead
Hi-Tech Rock Jam
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