SOME OF THE BACKSTORY Last year, I got back into composing piano and orchestral music after an absence of over 25 years. To be clear, during that vast gap, I starting learning guitar, played a fair amount of other people's songs, and I also messed around a lot with pop song writing myself. Despite that activity, I have yet to record an album of any of those songs I wrote, as I was just doing it for fun to help me learn how to play guitar (although it's on my list of things to do for 2026!). This concerto began as a challenge of sorts, as I had been working on some small scale video game soundtrack compositions and I was keen to try composing again for an orchestra. That was my original idea at least, that is to say, seeing the undertaking as good practice, but by the end it had become a bit more than that: a full celebration of the joy I had creating music like this again. Why a concerto? Well, as one might wonder given the occasional expansive solo section, this was originally meant to be a piano concerto, but after finishing the composition, I realized the piano was much more of an equal partner in the affair, but I stuck with the concerto title for now. The full recording shared here is in a rough mock-up form with basic Logic Pro orchestral and piano VSTs (aka, the instrument sounds in a synthesizer). Please excuse the rough edges of some of the arrangement, particularly for the string section. My goal is to further refine the piece and, I am hopeful, remaster it with better quality instrument sounds. I played every part live using my Roland FP30x as a MIDI controller. All three movements, but particularly the first and third, move frequently from one idea to the next, and may seem a little slipshod, random, or even meandering at times. This was all by intent, as I was having fun making music, and my aim was to make a musical mural of sorts, sharing different moods and ideas in sequence, rather than trying to follow a conventional structure or make a piece of program music. This started out as one 30 minute long piece, but I divided it into 3 traditional movements. However, I actually think it sounds better as one long piece with two very brief pauses, so that's what you can listen to here.