: May 2022
Spirited Away – Always with Me – Studio Ghibli Piano Collection, arr. Makiko Hirohashi
This series of music from Studio Ghibli is based on arrangements by Makiko Hirohashi. All the Ghibli Studio animated movies really capture our imagination and they bring so much of our childhood memories to life. The music is…
Read more »Complete Final Fantasy VIII Piano Collections
Final Fantasy VIII Piano Collections, music by Nobuo Uematsu, arranged by Shiro Hamaguchi, played by Richard Yang. FFVIII Piano Collections, another beautiful album. Favorites are Eyes on Me, the Castle. I recorded the complete Piano Collections (FFV…X-2) back…
Read more »Kingdom Hearts – 09 The 13th Side
The 13th Side has an very slow and long first half until it picks up the pace half way through (2:02). Unique to my performance, other than being very fast on the second half, the ending, instead of…
Read more »Princess Mononoke – Studio Ghibli Piano Collection, arr. Makiko Hirohashi
This series of music from Studio Ghibli is based on arrangements by Makiko Hirohashi. All the Ghibli Studio animated movies really capture our imagination and they bring so much of our childhood memories to life. The music is…
Read more »Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah – More Disney Songs for Classical Piano, arr. Phillip Keveren
Phillip Keveren is one of the more well-known arrangers for Disney music, the most impressive work being the Disney Recital Suites (Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, the Lion King, the Little Mermaid). He took a completely different approach…
Read more »Unravel ~ Tokyo Ghoul, piano arr. Animenz (at least I tried)
I decided to take a crack at Animenz’s mighty Unravel from Tokyo Ghoul. It’s no joke that @Animenz Piano Sheets came up with such a difficult Unravel piano arrangement. I personally never watched Tokyo Ghoul, but Unravel is…
Read more »Complete Final Fantasy VII Piano Collections
Final Fantasy VII Piano Collections, music by Nobuo Uematsu, arranged by Shiro Hamaguchi, played by Richard Yang. FFVII Piano Collections is the first all-time-favorite where the difficulty and sophistication really stepped up from FFIV…VI. There is no “filler”…
Read more »Piano Lesson with Richard Yang – Working Together – Kingdom Hearts Sonata
This is a piano lesson video on Working Together from the Kingdom Hearts Piano Collections. This is the most difficult piece to record in the KH Piano Collections. Here’s my recording of this piece. In order to follow…
Read more »Princess Mononoke – The Legend of Ashitaka – Studio Ghibli Piano Collection, arr. Makiko Hirohashi
This series of music from Studio Ghibli is based on arrangements by Makiko Hirohashi. All the Ghibli Studio animated movies really capture our imagination and they bring so much of our childhood memories to life. The music is…
Read more »A Whole New World ~ Aladdin – More Disney Songs for Classical Piano, arr. Phillip Keveren
Phillip Keveren is one of the more well-known arrangers for Disney music, the most impressive work being the Disney Recital Suites (Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, the Lion King, the Little Mermaid). He took a completely different approach…
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