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Cantabile No 12 - 'Winter's Embrace' by Rien Schalkwijk

When I woke up this morning, it was to discover the outside world around my house had transformed into a white wonderland following heavy snowfall overnight . . . meaning ‘winter’s embrace’ had dramatically arrived in the North East of England! And so that seemed to make it all the more fitting for me to make a recording of my dear Dutch friend Rien Schwalkwijk’s latest composition, written at the start of the New Year - his Cantabile No.12 Opus 32, which he has subtitled: ‘Winter’s Embrace’. As it happens, the first composition I wrote and uploaded to my YouTube channel in January 2024 was dedicated to Rien (my ‘Cantilena’:    • Cantilena  ) and as both pieces are in the same key, they feel to me to be somehow connected! Back in September of 2024 when I visited Amsterdam with my wife for a short city break, the ‘virtual’ connection I had made with Rien through our YouTube channels over the last few years finally became ‘real’ as we were able to meet-up for dinner and so further cement our friendship. (We saw Rien again in Haarlem during our stay as there was also an opportunity for us all to meet up with Aušra and Vidas Pinkevicius, who were there preparing for an organ recital, which I sadly missed as it was on the day we were flying back home). Rien has a very distinctive compositional style and his latest Cantabile is a good example of how he can weave a lovely melody into a lilting accompaniment to create an ambience he loves (which I have referred to fondly as ‘gentle tranquility’!). I have always wanted to design and build my own organ, and so in this recording I have done just that (virtually!) by using ‘Organteq 2’ – a computer program that enables the performer to physically model organ tone, reproducing the heart of complex flue and reed pipe physics. The sound is generated in real time from scratch, reproducing the typical and variable pipe attack transients chiff, as well as the 3D configuration, where pipes are located in space according to their keyboards. The software offers 74 unique stops and more than 4,000 pipes, inspired by the works of famous French builders from the Romantic period, such as Cavaillé-Coll, and by great German baroque builders, such as Schnitger, Silbermann, and Tröst. These stops can be assigned on a 50-stop slots console of 3 manual keyboards with a 5-octave range and a pedal keyboard with 32 notes. Each keyboard can be assigned to a selection of stops with adjustable parameters. I am having a lot of fun experimenting as a new ‘organ builder’ . . . but it’s early days yet and I hope to improve my voicing techniques over the coming months! Of course, Organteq has many limitations, but I do think it offers good value for money and has an interesting creative edge over Hauptwerk sample sets . . . even if it does not yet match the best of Hauptwerk sounds! If you would like a copy of this Cantabile score, Rien’s sheet music is free for his Channel / BuyMeACoffee / Patreon members. This piece is (among his other pieces) also available for a discount price here: https://buymeacoffee.com/rienschalkwi... and at SheetMusicPlus here: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/en/pro...