I wanted to share my orchestral sheet music here for the Ukrainian National Anthem in pdf form. Here it is along with my recording with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Please feel free to download and share and perform under Creative Commons free licence. Philip x
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This is a track from my new album – Somewhere Along The Edge. The album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in September 2016 and is my first studio album away from a specific movies soundtrack for some time.
Each track is dedicated to someone who lives fully at the edge of life— whether explorers, artists, travellers, thinkers…
This is dedicated to the amazing artist, technologist, fellow cellist, drone pilot, underwater photographer and more importantly, great friend, Eric Cheng.
His photography is exquisite – echengphoto.com/index
If you would like a free review copy then please comment below and I’ll send you a code by return.
Philip Sheppard October 2016
Somewhere Along The Edge on iTunes
https://exit.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fitun.es%2Fus%2F1S4Teb
Somewhere Along The Edge on Bandcamp
http://philipsheppard.bandcamp.com/…/somewhere-along-the-ed…
Somewhere Along The Edge On Spotify
I just looked on Soundcloud to see that I’ve had quite a few plays recently. The track I wrote for the Launch sequence of In the Shadow of the Moon has had 100,000 plays! Thanks everyone…
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If you like this then try this tune too…
I send my friends & subscribers my new tracks as I write them – click here for free mp3s
His Masters Voice
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Thought I’d revive this track as it’s had a lot of plays on SoundCloud.. and it’s a free download too. Try this tune too…
If you’re kind enough to sponsor a wonderful charity, I’ll send you a free album download!
In 2005 I ran the London Marathon with my friends Andy and Rob in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital.
This year, we’re running it again in aid of the Anthony Nolan Trust (an incredible Leukemia charity).
26.2 miles is a jolly long way, and as many of you know I’m not a sporting chap (but I seem to be able to run for hours, which is just as well…).
I’m now up to 15 miles on my training runs. This normally involves going out fairly late at night with a headtorch, GPS and a playlist of scary music on my iPod(makes me run faster in the dark between villages!). I also have to drink lucozade Sport drinks on the way which are deeply unpleasant but do the job…
Here’s my deal with you;
If you sponsor me £1 / $1 or €1, (or more), then I will send you a special one-off album of my most popular tracks as featured on iTunes – ie tracks from, ‘In the Shadow of the Moon’, ‘Henry Mind of a Tyrant’ and pieces from my forthcoming Piano album, (examples below)
In the Shadow of the Moon[Audio http://radiomovies.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/22-re-entry.mp3]The Haunted Salon[Audio http://radiomovies.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/04-moon-over-meadow.mp3]
Go to this page here to leave however much or little you want, then drop me a message in the comments below (this can stay private), and I’ll send you a download code by return.
Thankyou lovely people….
Here are some recent tracks… let me know which other ones should be downloads![soundcloud url=”http://soundcloud.com/radiomovies/sets/r-a-d-i-o-m-o-v-i-e-s” params=”show_comments=true&auto_play=false&show_playcount=true&show_artwork=true&color=6bb7ef” width=”100%” height=”360″ ]
I crave that sense that hovers somewhere between fear and bliss.
It’s this time of year that I long to be on a mountain’s edge somewhere between heaven and earth, gravity and weightlessness, beauty and terror.
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This track is called Nearly Zero G and was featured in the recent Teton Gravity extreme Ski film Re:Session.
I’ve had lots of emails asking to buy this track. Well, you can’t buy it.. but you can download it for free right here!
Here’s a Christmas track to download by way of thanks for all the great support this year!
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The robin laughed in the orange-tree:
“Ho, windy North, a fig for thee:
While breasts are red and wings are bold
And green trees wave us globes of gold,
Time’s scythe shall reap but bliss for me
Sunlight, song, and the orange-tree.
Here’s a track called The Touch
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If it gets enough thumbs up it becomes a download!
Follow him on Instagram here.Then…
Download the sheet music here!
Breaking news… New piano page with tracks here
Funnily enough, I can’t play the piano as I’m a cellist by trade, so one hand carrying a melody is more than enough for me. In fact my piano reports from junior school were so bad that I still have them.
They are paper reports as, back then, the only computer in school ran floppy disks the size of a pancake (same consistency too) and could achieve the incredible task of generating a row of ten prime numbers whilst making a noise like your granny clearing her throat.
Sorry, not your granny, one’s own granny.
So they were lovingly crafted from postcard sized sheets of paper stapled together with a whole page per subject, including instrumental lessons. Most of the sheets were marked with crabbed, bitter scratchings of frustrated first world war veterans sent to the darkest parts of Essex to teach us, which goes some way to explaining why they were illustrated with fag ash burns and beer stains.
Not so my piano report pages .. oh no. Elegant beautiful writing like (the then) to be Lady Di’s.
They read:
Obviously a treasured possession now…
Anyway – A little while back I wrote a piece for solo piano called Crystallised Beauty (Crystallized if you’re American) which was recorded on an album for Chappell. For some reason, some people like it – for which I’m very grateful, as I’m an imposter in the world of the keyboard…
Here’s the not often heard full-length version of the track:
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Here’s a Jane Austen trailer using it. The sheet music is finally coming soon and will be a free download from this page…
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Other Keyboard pieces
The are a number of other keyboard pieces in this set.
Here’s one of them, which was recorded in Finchcocks, a stately home and piano museum. The instrument used is a Viennese double strung piano – very rare and extremely fragile instrument. [Audio http://radiomovies.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/04-moon-over-meadow.mp3]The piece is (as yet) unnamed, but is based on the idea of an empty drawing room at night – except, that is, for the piano. It holds within its wood and strings snatches of music, harmonics and melodies that others have played on it… Any ideas for names gratefully accepted – the more literary the better!
Here’s a second piece recorded on a Steinway – a slow ballade waltz [Audio http://radiomovies.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/jb3-ballade.mp3]
Here’s a third piece called The Long Letter[Audio http://radiomovies.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/07-10-long-letter.mp3]
Just because it’s a Wednesday, and sunny… here’s a track called Watermark for solo piano[Audio http://radiomovies.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/watermark.mp3]
Click this.. 
Then:
I’ve had a lot of emails asking about the possible CD release of the Henry Mind of a Tyrant score on CD (and other media). It features Alamire, Fretwork, Dot Allison and Charles Mutter.
We’re working on it fast… The more messages that come through, the more likely it is to happen so it’s looking good.
Thanks everyone!
PS. check back regularly in the Free Bits section as limited edition tracks will appear there often!
Summer’s landed – So soon after Easter?
Anyway, sitting in the garden, writing music. Today’s one of those days I’m grateful to be a self-employed person… shouldn’t go on about it as it’ll start raining, and for all I know you may be sitting at a PC somewhere cold..?
I wanted to let you know that there’s a new tag in the top right hand corner called Free Bits. It’s where I’ll post anything that appears on my other posts such as free mp3 downloads and sheet music, plus the odd preview invite and so forth.
Also, I’m on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/philipsheppard/
(is this wrong?)
Join me and you’ll be the first to know about future freebies, Henry VIII soundtrack release and download (Mind of a Tyrant), Jane Austen piano tracks and release dates for some films I’ve worked on in the US.
Moon Machines is on the Science Channel this week – the companion series to In the Shadow of the Moon. I wrote the music for the series last year which aired on the Discovery Channel.
Henry Mind of a Tyrant continues its run on Channel 4 this evening at 9pm with the second episode – Warrior. Channel 4 have put a series of short films, images and even (oh no…) an interview with yours truly at this site. Don’t forget the soundtrack is a free listen on this site.
Sergio is going to be shown at HotDocs in Ontario – click here for more details.
Lots of people (hundreds in fact!) have downloaded the sheet music for Crystallised Beauty this week, and I’m asking for suggestions for the next piece to be made available. Let me know at this page!
On this site, I’ve put up a couple more archive album tracks; Aqua Voce now online, together with Penitential Psalm.
Thanks for all the messages and comments – it’s great to hear from you…
Here’s a free Easter gift for the first 100 of you who click this link. It’s a free mp3 of a piece I wrote called Penitential Psalm – hear it here:[Audio http://radiomovies.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/02-penitential-psalm.mp3]
As I’ve mentioned many times in previous posts I’m a great believer in mp3s being legally free to download where the artist/writer/publisher can give their consent, particularly where the recording is of an event for which concert/theatre/film-goers have already paid an admission charge.
This secondary exploitation is often exploited in the true sense of the word with charges being levied for something which has technically never left the digital domain.
I think a rebroadcasting of material can be free in many cases without exploitation, and can act as a way of spreading the word about a great performer, group or writer. I love it when authors upload some of their books as free pdfs in the fairly certain knowledge that (if the material is great) people will go and buy physical copies of their other work. In the case of performers, it’s a great way of getting people to come to gigs.
Here are a couple of great sites for interesting classical mp3s – all free:
The European archive of classical recordings has over 8oo pages of LPs in mp3 format on its site as free downloads. These are extraordinary recordings featuring some of the world’s most historic performers.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has a really high quality concert series which it condenses into a regular podcast. The whole concert series is archived, and it shows great foresight on the part of the performers and the museum itself to make this available to anyone.
This week’s events/broadcasts:
David Starkey’s Henry Mind of a Tyrant is on this Easter on Channel 4 in the UK.
11th April: 7pm – Channel 4. Episode 1 Prince
13th April: 9pm – Channel 4. Episode 2 Warrior
You can hear my soundtrack for the series here for free, and a free Henry VIII download here!
Hope you have a happy and peaceful Easter.
Henry: Mind of a Tyrant with Dr David Starkey begins on Channel 4 this coming Monday at 9pm. Here’s a version of Taunder Naken from the soundtrack written for multitracked treble viols (melody by Henry VIII): [Audio http://radiomovies.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/ht91-schism-mix.mp3]
Download it from here if you like. The whole series soundtrack is gradually going online.
There are some fantastic events to celebrate Henry’s 500th anniversary – including the Tower of London exhibit pictured above as featured in today’s Guardian. The British Library is opening its exhibition shortly, but meanwhile it’s worth visiting the astounding Ritblatt Gallery of treasures.
I can’t play it well, but I love it all the same… Which other pieces would you like free sheet music for? Please let me know!
I’ve written quite a few pieces for piano recently, for various films and as concert works. (NB free download at the end)
Join me on Instagram for mp3 and sheet music updates
Sheet music for Crystallised Beauty
Here’s a track called Watermark for solo piano[Audio http://radiomovies.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/watermark.mp3]
Glenn Gould [Audio http://radiomovies.wordpress.com/files/2009/03/15-glenn-gould.mp3]
After the Moonlight (Piano Trio)[Audio http://radiomovies.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/13-fast-gathering-tears.mp3]And… This is new too The Daguerreotype [Audio http://radiomovies.wordpress.com/files/2009/03/jb2-old-photos.mp3]Here’s another recorded in Finchcocks, a stately home and piano museum. The instrument used is a Viennese double strung piano – a very rare and extremely fragile instrument. [Audio http://radiomovies.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/04-moon-over-meadow.mp3]
The piece is (as yet) unnamed, but is based on the idea of an empty drawing room at night – except, that is, for the piano. It holds within its wood and strings snatches of music, harmonics and melodies that others have played on it… Any ideas for names gratefully accepted – the more literary the better!
Here’s a second piece recorded on a Steinway – a slow ballade waltz [Audio http://radiomovies.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/jb3-ballade.mp3]
Here’s a third piece called The Long Letter[Audio http://radiomovies.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/07-10-long-letter.mp3]
Here’s the obvious one (of Jane Austen fame)… Crystallised Beauty – the (not often heard) full-length version of the track:[Audio http://radiomovies.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/01-crystallised-beauty.mp3]Added today – Sheet music for Crystallised Beauty!
And here’s one called for Elena[Audio http://radiomovies.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/22-9-for-elena.mp3]
This is a piece (with strings) called keep walking[Audio http://radiomovies.wordpress.com/files/2009/03/pssst.mp3]
Here’s the mp3 if you’d rather download it and hear it on your personal gramophone (!): keep walking by Philip Sheppard
If you like any of these pieces, check out Aqua Voce too, and remember to Join me on Instagram for mp3 and sheet music updates too!
Henry – Mind of a Tyrant
I’ve just come back from the dubbing sessions (when the audio is finalised with pictures) for the new David Starkey series on Henry VIII.
I’m really excited about the series. Can’t say too much here, but, most of the soundtrack will appear shortly on this site as an audio stream.
It features Alamire, Fretwork, Charles Mutter and Dot Allison amongst others.
Here’s a sneak preview of one of the lead tracks Ultimi[Audio http://radiomovies.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/ht4-ultimi-mix-copy-1.mp3]
New Piano track
Here’s a newly released track playing with the idea of piano touch – it’s a little rhapsody about Glenn Gould [Audio http://radiomovies.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/15-glenn-gould.mp3]
If you like this, there’s a whole page of piano tracks…
Sheet Music
Hundreds of people have downloaded the Crystallised Beauty sheet music this week. I’ll put some of the other piano pieces online as scores as soon as I get a chance… watch this space!
I’ve just been finishing the soundtrack for the new David Starkey series for Channel 4, entitled Henry VIII: The Mind of a Tyrant . The music features the viol consort Fretwork and vocal consort
radiomovies latest round-up
So… The Jane Austen lovers have come out in force behind a certain piece of piano music, In-I has opened at the Sydney Opera House – and the score / soundtrack is now online here and Channel 4 are to shortly announce the transmission dates of David Starkey’s new series on Henry VIII – the Mind of a Tyrant.
Excitingly.. for me anyway, I found the one Jeff Buckley bootleg recording I’ve been looking for for years.
Meanwhile I’ve started to put my albums online. I realised that it was ten years since I recorded The Glass Cathedral, and so I’ve decided to release it as a one tune radio station.. okay, so it’s actually a webpage with a Piranesi engraving and a tune… but, as with the dance scores, i like the idea of people being able to dial it up and listen. A lot of people have paid to see concerts, films, shows – for which I’m really grateful… why should I ask people for more money, and anyway, what’s wrong with giving the odd tune away?
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