Piano Solo – Voce ‘e Notte (Neapolitan Song)

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This is me playing Neapolitan Song “Voce ‘e Notte” (Voice in the Night) on the piano. The song was composed by Italian Composer Ernesto De Curtis. Thank you for watching and I hope you would enjoy my interpretation of this beautiful song, and feel free to comment and rate about my playing! – Philip ^^

The song tells of a man who went under the balcony of the woman he loved to declare his feelings, though she is already involved with another man.

The lyrics of the song tells of A former lover sings to a woman who is with her husband. “If this voice awakes you in the night, while you hold your husband close to you, stay awake, if you wish to stay awake, but make it look like you are sleeping soundly.” The voice becomes passionate at the line, “Don’t go to the window to look and see who it is, because it is no mistake: this voice is mine.” The singer urges the woman that if the remembrance of passion should overwhelm her at listening to his voice, she should make love to her husband, and if her husband should ask who it is, she should answer that “whoever is out in the street singing must be mad, or dying of jealousy. Maybe he’s mourning some cruelty. He’s singing alone. But what good is singing?

Piano Solo – All I Ask Of You (Andrew Lloyd Webber)

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This is me playing Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “All I Ask Of You” on the piano. Thank you for watching and I hope you would enjoy my performance of this beautiful song!!

“All I Ask of You” is a song from the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical version of The Phantom of the Opera. The song occurs at the end of Act I of the musical. Christine Daaé, terrified of the Phantom after a stagehand is found murdered during an opera performance, flees to the roof of the Paris Opera House with her childhood friend, Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny. He promises to love her and keep her safe from the Phantom, who is listening in on the exchange without their knowledge. Heartbroken and furious at being spurned, he swears revenge against Raoul and causes the Opera’s giant chandelier to crash to the floor.

English Lyrics;

Raul:
No more talk of darkness
Forget these wide-eyed fears
I’m here, nothing can harm you
My words will warm and calm you

Let me be your freedom
Let daylight dry your tears
I’m here, with you, beside you
To guard you and to guide you

Christine:
Say you’ll love me every waking moment
Turn my head with talk of summertime
Say you’ll need me with you now and always
Promise me, that all you say is true
That’s all I ask of you

Raul:
Let me be your shelter
Let me be your light
You’re safe, no one will find you
Your fears are far behind you

Christine:
All I want is freedom
A world with no more night
And you, always beside me
To hold me and to hide me

Raul:
Then say you’ll share with me one love, one lifetime
Let me lead you from your solitude
Say you’ll need me with you here, beside you
Anywhere you go let me go too
Cristine, that’s all i ask of you

Christine:
Say you’ll share with me one love, one lifetime
Say the word and I will follow you

Together:
Share each day with me, each night, each morning

Christine:
Say you love me

Raul:
You know I do

Together:
Love me
That’s all I ask of you

Together:
Anywhere you go, let me go too
Love me
That’s all I ask of you

Piano Solo – The Music Of The Night (Andrew Lloyd Webber)

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“The Music of the Night” is a song from the popular musical The Phantom of the Opera. The music was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber with lyrics by Charles Hart.

In the musical, it is sung after the Phantom lures Christine Daaé down to his lair beneath the Opera House. He seduces Christine with “his music” of the night, his voice putting her into a type of trance. He sings of his unspoken love for her and urges her to forget the world and life she knew before. The Phantom leads Christine around his lair, eventually pulling back a curtain to reveal a life-size doll of Christine dressed in a wedding gown, causing her to faint. The Phantom then carries Christine to a bed, where he lays her down and goes on to write his music.

Hope you would enjoy watching my performance of this beautiful song! – Philip ^^

Lyrics:

Night-time sharpens,
heightens each sensation
Darkness stirs and wakes imagination
Silently the senses abandon their defences …

Slowly, gently night unfurls its splendour
Grasp it, sense it – tremulous and tender
Turn your face away
from the garish light of day,
turn your thoughts away
from cold, unfeeling light -
and listen to the music of the night …

Close your eyes and surrender to your
darkest dreams!
Purge your thoughts of the life
you knew before!
Close your eyes,
let your spirit start to soar!
And you’ll live
as you’ve never lived before …

Softly, deftly,
music shall surround you …
Feel it, hear it,
closing in around you …
Open up your mind,
let your fantasies unwind,
in this darkness which
you know you cannot fight -
the darkness of the music of the night …

Let your mind start a journey
through a strange new world!
Leave all thoughts
of the world you knew before!
Let your soul take you where you
long to be !
Only then can you belong to me …

Floating, falling, sweet intoxication!
Touch me, trust me savour each sensation!
Let the dream begin,
let your darker side give in
to the power of the music that I write -
the power of the music of the night …

You alone can make my song take flight -
help me make the music of the night . . .

Piano Solo – ‘O Sole Mio (Neapolitan song) 我的太阳

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This is me playing well known Neapolitan song “O Sole Mio” (My Own Sun) on the piano. The lyrics were written by Giovanni Capurro, and the melody was composed by Eduardo di Capua. Thank you for watching and hope you would like it. – Philip ^^

Che bella cosa na jurnata ‘e sole,
n’aria serena doppo na tempesta!
Pe’ ll’aria fresca pare gia’ na festa…
Che bella cosa na jurnata ‘e sole.

Ma n’atu sole
cchiu’ bello, oi ne’.
‘o sole mio
sta ‘nfronte a te!
‘o sole, ‘o sole mio
sta ‘nfronte a te!
sta ‘nfronte a te!

Quanno fa notte e ‘o sole
se ne scenne,
me vene quase ‘na malincunia;
sotto ‘a fenesta toia restarria
quanno fa notte e ‘o sole
se ne scenne.

Ma n’atu sole
cchiu’ bello, oi ne’.
‘o sole mio
sta ‘nfronte a te!
‘o sole, ‘o sole mio
sta ‘nfronte a te!
sta ‘nfronte a te!

English Translation

What a wonderful thing a sunny day
The cool air after a thunderstorm!
The fresh breezes banish the heavy air…
What a wonderful thing a sunny day.

But another sun,
that’s brighter still
It’s my own sun
that’s in your face!
The sun, my own sun
It’s in your face!
It’s in your face!

When night comes and the sun
has gone down,
I start feeling blue;
I’d stay below your window
When night comes and the sun
has gone down.

But another sun,
that’s brighter still
It’s my own sun
that’s in your face!
The sun, my own sun
It’s in your face!
It’s in your face!

Piano Solo – Mariage D’amour (Richard Clayderman) 夢中的婚禮

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This piece is a very well known piece called Mariage D’amour – “Wedding of Love”. It was composed by French Composer “Paul de Senneville”, and played originally by the famous French pianist Richard Clayderman. It’s a very beautiful piece of music, and very suitable to play in the Wedding. I play this piece at my friends’ wedding and they seem like it very much. Hope you enjoy it as well. ^^

Piano Solo – Fenesta che lucive (Neapolitan Song) 明亮的窗戶

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This Neapolitan Song  is called “Fenesta che lucive” (The Shining Window or The Light in the Window)

In Fenesta ca lucive – a young man tells the sad story of returning to a shining window only to find that it shines no more. He has come to ask about his sweetheart who has been ill. Her sister leans from the window and tells him that she has died and now lies in the church. “She always cried when she slept alone, but now she sleeps with death”, she tells him.

“Go to the church and look into her coffin, out of her mouth once came words of love, but now only worms. Oh pity!”

He will ask the priest to take care of her and keep a lamp lit by her coffin. The shining window is closed. He will never walk down that street again. Instead, he will walk in the cemetary and await the day that death allows him to be with his sweetheart again.

The melody is lovely in its soaring sadness, in its sense of deep sorrow. It is dramatic and richly romantic in its arch-shaped contour, conveying the kind of powerful emotions and distinctive melodic character that one might hear in a mid-nineteenth century aria from a tragic opera by a master. For all the tragedy in the song, though, the mood of the music never wallows in dark morbidity, focusing more on the elements of love than of death in the text. Those partial toward Italian folk and love songs will find Fenesta ca lucive a powerfully moving listening experience.

Piano Solo – Prelude No. 1 in C major “BWV 846″ (J.S. Bach) C大調前奏曲

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This piece is called “Prelude No. 1 in C major” by J.S. Bach from The Well-Tempered Clavier. The Well-Tempered Clavier (German: Das Wohltemperierte Clavier), BWV 846–893, is a collection of solo keyboard music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. He first gave the title to a book of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys, dated 1722, composed “for the profit and use of musical youth desirous of learning, and especially for the pastime of those already skilled in this study.”