Year 8, Day 195

Hey guys. Today's song is Crescendo by The Piano Guys.

Now that we're into the more piano centred classical music this seems like a good spot to throw in The Piano Guys with an original piece. So the Piano Guys have been around since 2010 and are made up of Jon Schmidt, Steven Sharp Nelson, Paul Anderson and Al van der Beek with one past member in Tel Stewart. They got popular on YouTube with both their covers and original music, and tour around the world. They have 10 albums released with the most recent from 2021 so there is lots for you to check out. This song is one of their newer ones, released in 2022 and is written for piano and cello primarily, although the credits also list violin and percussion on the track. For any non-music people, crescendo is a musical term used in sheet music to showcase an increase in loudness. So if a piece starts quiet in piano, it then will move through a crescendo into a forte (for example) progressively getting louder until it reaches the point it should be at. This also can be used not just for volume, but for intensity and this song showcases that well, so give it a listen.

Peace.