Grainger: The Merry King Complete

[idiotSavant]

I've posted this piece before for strings. Here's the complete version for strings and winds along with piano.

VSL SE and SE+ strings and winds, recorded in MIR Pro Sage One Hall.

As always, feedback is appreciated!

https://soundcloud.com/tensivity/grainger-the-merry-king-ve-2

Thanks!

[Martynizer]

Beautiful piece.
My only thought was that the piano was a bit low in some sections when it's among the other instruments around. It seemed to get buried, even though it seemed to have an important melodic part to play.

[idiotSavant]

Thanks for the feedback! Always helpful, and glad you liked it. I've since re-recorded the piece and made some adjustment, but in the reference recordings I have the piano tends to be pretty backgroundish. It also has intense dynamic range, so if I adjust the volume to push the pp then the fff comes blasting through. I could adjust this in a DAW mix, but that's where I would really like to have the ability to draw volume curves in Notion. I prefer to keep things in the Notion/VSL environment and not take things into a DAW unless I absolutely have to.

I'm basically lazy.