Into His Countenance

[criticism1000]

..and this is so melancolic and very beautiful!!!!

[PhillipLWilcher]

@criticism1000 Thank you - there are a couple of other uploads of this - one is a live performance - at my channel.

[criticism1000]

@PhillipLWilcher wowww

[SarrasaniPianoCircus]

fantastic atmosphere, and excellent composition quality.

[PhillipLWilcher]

Thank you again.

There's a recent live performance of this piece here at my channel also.

I appreciate your enthusiasm.

[lovesGenet]

Flute music and subtle orchestrations. I will tell everyone I know about this Australian .I thought Carl Vine was the only special one.This man's music is wrenching ,tender,so quiet but truly memorable and outstanding.I can't believe how fortunate I am that I now have this to hear truly affecting contemporary music! Makes me think of Delius but I like your wind writing extremely!

[PhillipLWilcher]

Thank you again for your kind words.

This is only a simulation. A live performance was uploaded recently played by the Bourbaki Ensemble.

Blessings....

[johnradicchi]

Dearest P,

this will always be one of my favourites amongst your many compositions.

The melancholy beauty of this piece affects me in the same way as Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor. Only someone who has lost a loved one could write such heartfelt music - it moves me to tears.

Long may you continue creating beauty.

Your friend,

J

[PhillipLWilcher]

Thank you John.

Your comment is especially meaningful because you knew my incredible mother for so many years and the circumstances under which I wrote this piece.

Oh, I have more music to write, yes, or as the beautiful poet Robert Frost said : I have miles to go before I sleep.

Blessings.....

[dabiribd]

this is totally awesome Phillip

Thank you

[PhillipLWilcher]

Thank you Ben!

It will receive its premiere performance next month along with my other flute/string orchestra piece "The Flautist's Pavane".

More importantly though, how are things in your musical world? What are you working on?

Blessings........

[margyoseven]

i think this will always be one of your most beautiful compositions, Phillip. Its gentleness and white-gold purity transport the spirit into the beyond: thank you again. xM

[PhillipLWilcher]

"white-gold purity" - I like that Margaret!

I agree with you ! Thank you friend!

[earthatic]

So beautiful. Such a beautiful melody.

[PhillipLWilcher]

Thank you!

[pianodesu]

Very nice melody! I wish I could hear this played by live Orchestra. Good Luck on your compositions Philip Wilcher. Greetings from Poland.

[PhillipLWilcher]

Thank you!

This piece ws recorded on a CD honouring my 50th birthday year last year and will be premiered this July here in Sydney.

I'm glad you like it! Blessings to you....

[guitaoist]

Very nice, so what is your own birthday then? You know Im aquarius but i gotsta know yours

[PhillipLWilcher]

I'm Pisces - March 16th. Born in 1958 - I've celebrated my 5th birthday 10 times!! A child at heart.

I'm touched you have passed by. I think your own birthday might be February 10 - yes??

[1Petraworld]

Pisces are known for the artistic an creative soul.

Me - the 1st of March.

Sorry to have met you now that I have to leave but I wish you all the best

and thank you for this beauty!

Stela

[PhillipLWilcher]

Thank you Stela! Lovely to meet you here....

[StelaWorld]

I really don't remember the reason I mentioned Pisces above. I feel embarassed now : )

It sounds imposing and self-conceited. I apologize.his piece is sp... tender.

Zen proverb:

God could not get everywhere. That's why he created Mothers

[StelaWorld]

I meant :

This piece is so... tender

(sorry, typing errors)

[PhillipLWilcher]

No need to apolgize - not at all - or to feel embarrased.

I like that thought about mothers.

Today is actually the 4th anniversary of my mother's passing and your message has brought me back here to her piece.

Tears.......

Blessings to you!

[Imamummy2]

I believe this is a composer who is a unique creation - as if he belongs to another time, another world - I have tried putting the effect of his music into words and it is not an easy thing. Phillip taps right into the creative soul of the musician - I have said it before and I will say it again; no musician who plays his music comes away the same or feels unchanged by the experience.

He is undoubtedly a musician's composer.

[PhillipLWilcher]

You overwhelm me! Thank you!

[dabiribd]

Beautiful

[gildedDreams]

brought out of my sweet exile for just the space of a breath to open my soul to this quiet meditation. How the ones we love bring us in their great transitions - those within life and those between - closer into the presence of The Eternal. Thank you for giving this sacred space a vibration which resonates to the very core of existence. Bless you, kind Phillip.

[PhillipLWilcher]

Thank you as ever for the kind words. God bless!

[jannokas85]

Beautiful piece!

[PMiddy001]

What an amazing piece of work. 5 stars

[PhillipLWilcher]

Thank you so much!

[sleepingTitania]

Thankyou so much Phillip, for uploading this exquisite piece. Actually, I was only looking for it on your channel the other day, as it is my favourite from your CD.

It is a most beautiful, moving tribute to your very courageous Mother.

Warm regards, Helen

[PhillipLWilcher]

Thank you so much Helen! Blessings ever to you!

[ETTA48]

It sounds wonderful, sensitive.

Would love it to hear this with a symphonic orchestra, and a violinist for the solo in it. Janine Jansen for instance, for me she is the greatest. Maybe together with Maxim Rysanov on the viola.

[PhillipLWilcher]

Thank you! Lovely hearing from you again!

It has actually been recorded on a CD titled "Into His Countenance" as a tribute to my 50th birthday year by the Bourbaki Ensemble with Amanda Muir on flute. I have to use the simulation here. Thank you for your kind words as ever.... bless you!