Category Archives: Music not sung or played by me
This includes music videos made for other people’s songs where I’m not singing, or recordings I made of performances, etc.
An Evening with Krzysztof Orlowski, part 2 of 2
Original YT playout date: 29 March 2010
Duration: 13:03
“The maestro plays on, in this second part of his kind vist to me in the restaurant of the Amber Hotel at Olesnica.
See https://annapietrzak.com/gitana-electric-eclectic-2/ for more of his music, especially his own compositions.”
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An Evening with Krzysztof Orlowski, part 1 of 2
Original YT playout date: 27 March 2010
Duration: 14:14
Much travelled Silesian musician Krzysztof Orlowski, whose group and whose own compositions you can find on https://annapietrzak.com/gitana-electric-eclectic-2/ is a gentleman I met in this place, Hotel Amber at Olesnica, one year ago. I filmed his concert at the restaurant and put it on youtube, it was appreciated by the viewers and also Krzysztof himself saw it, and got in contact with me.
These days he’s not playing at Amber so regularly, but was kind enough to come and join me for one evening and played a few of his fine medleys. In this part, we can hear his medley of Piaf’s “”Vie en Rose”” with Burt Bacharach’s “”I’ll never fall in love again””, as well as the Girl from Ipanema performed with impeccable style.
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Anna’s Tale
Original YT playout date: 7 March 2010
Duration: 7:21
This is the title of the tune here, by my friend Krzysztof Orlowski, whom you may remember meeting in my film of Amber Hotel in Olesnice about a year back. I also have more footage of his fine playing to play out in the near future from my visit to the same place this year.
Krzysztof gave me a fine CD of his music, which you could get on http://www.gitana.pl – though not sure that page is still going. It is very well produced. I noticed that the song “”Anna’s Tale”” went very interestingly together with this footage taken recently landing in a blizzard at Warsaw airport, so I chose this clip to showcase this evocative and mysterious piece.
If you are wondering why a lot of the start of this video appears to be a blank screen, look again, and you will see the snow whipping by as a multitude of tiny horizontal lines. And then the snow-covered land appears below through the clouds…”
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This piece would have done for a broad range of films actually. In retrospect, the dark landing barely does it any justice. I could have used it in a much better context. This guy did great music but became practically invisible, like Richard Halley.
***Statistics and Credits***
Views at the time added to HTV: 2,618
Likes at the time added to HTV: 5
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Music used: Anna’s Tale, by Krzysztof Orlowski, used by personal permission
Languages used: English
Animals/plants featured: None
Classical Music and Food
Original YT playout date: 6 August 2009
Duration: 15:08
Highlights from the last of Richard Berkeley’s Tasty Classic events of 2008-2009 season. If you want to attend one of these events for the creme de la creme brulee of Warsaw’s cultural elite, then let me know and I’ll try to swing you an invite…
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Tasty Classics December 2008
Original YT playout date: 12 January 2009
Duration: 1:00:50
“In the company of Richard Berkeley and the Fundacja Nowa Orkiestra Kameralna in the Bristol Hotel, Warsaw, on 4th December 2008.
The sponsors of the event included http://www.grupastrategia.com , your one-stop shop for professional services (audit, accounting, tax, legal, real estate, business systems) for foreign investors in Poland in five different Polish cities, also http://www.dobrewina.pl , and others. See them all on http://www.fnok.pl . Reuters and Arup were major contributors to this event, both those companies taking a full table for their guests.
These events are unforgettable cultural moments in the expatriate life of this city. If you have never been and would like to, then let me know and I will put you in contact with the right person.”
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Running Out of Air
Original YT playout date: 25 October 2008
Duration: 4:44
Another video remake of a Jo McCafferty video. Her songs probably qualify as the most underrated in the world, as they are barely known and yet, as you can see, of tremendous quality. Both the music and the poetry will go straight to the spot. Please pass it on and get Jo some of the attention her music deserves!
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“If I say” by Jo McCafferty – video remix
Original YT playout date: 13 August 2008
Duration: 4:27
I was given permish by my talk radio friend and not exactly unsigned artist (she has her own label, but if Universal, Sony et al are interested, who knows?) Jo McCafferty who wrote and also performs this lovely song, among numerous others which you can find on her channel http://www.youtube.com/neosome and you can also see her talent on the Sunday night NTTBS shows on my channel.
I remixed the video a little bit, so you can go and see the original prior to the remix over on her channel! I’ll link to it off the video. There are also ways that you can buy the mp3s from her website.
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All the Psalms
For a change this is a Video not from my channel. et me know if it comes down or is unavailable or anything, but this video is truly remarkable. Eleven hours long, it contains fine choirs, especially Kings College Cambridge judging by the static images accompanying, singing their way through the entire Anglican Psalter.
Beautiful. God be praised.
And here, if the above were not enough, is a wonderful presentation, voice only of 120 top Christian Hymns.
