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Tres Oceanos (Three Oceans) was dedicated to Genuino Madruga, an Azorian sailor who sailed around the globe alone.

I hope you enjoy it.

You can hear it at http://www.anteroavila.com

please comment!

Kind Regards.

Antero

Hello!

A new recording by Lira Açoriana. A wind Band whith musicians from all the Azores islands.

I hope you enjoy!

Please comment!

http://anteroavila.com/music/Tres_Ocean ... oriana.mp3

Gorgeous, sounds like it would be fun to play too.

At around 9 minutes, you come very close to quoting Elgar's "March No. 1 in D", the "Land of Hope and Glory" section of the Trio - which is very familiar in the US as a high school graduation procession. There I was, setting anchor in some spectacular vista, and then - urgh...

Do you sail? I don't, really, but I vaguely remember a brief trip or two as a rather spare experience. There's a lot of energy in play, the boat hums and hisses as the sails drive it through the water, and of course waves, but it's steady, maybe hypnotic, mechanical. I found the pastoral quality of your piece more evocative of the places that one might come ashore, on a trip around the world. And of course more interesting than anything I can think of that would represent the stark experience of open water sailing, but then I'm not much of a composer myself.

Thank you Donn!

The Elgar quote was intentional. Simbolizing the great arrival party that was prepared to him.

Thank you for your comments!

Impressive! What was the ocean wavelike sound about 2/3 through? Wind machine, recording, or sound effects by the players?

By the players. Blowing into the brass instruments.

But in this recording I compressed the sound in that moment so it could be more audible. With that I ruined the recording at that moment. Sounds artifitial... Sorry about that...

Here is a new video of this.

I'm one of the tubas...

Hope you like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xp6gftUqEs

Great piece of music Antero! I really love the richness of it. It reminds me of a piece called Oceanides by Sibelius.