Have you ever had a Swiss roll? Because you should.

A few years ago, TwoSet Violin announced a call for fan compositions, and a plan to select a few of the submissions to be played on their YouTube channel. I saw the call some days before the deadline, thought the idea was fun, and took a handful of hours over a couple of afternoons to put together "My Swiss Roll", a whimsical duet about this luscious dessert cake. I submitted the piece under the Japanese-inspired pseudonym Happō Baruteri, and to my surprise and delight, they ended up playing the piece in one of their videos! Not only that, the response in the comments was also overwhelmingly positive, and there were a number of requests for a piano version of the piece. I left a comment expressing my gratitude and a challenge; a thousand likes on my comment and I'd deliver notes for the piano.

After about a year, my comment had well over a thousand likes, so of course, I was happy to produce an adaptation of the piece for the piano. But I thought it would be fun to not just stop there; the original piece wasn't anything fancy, yet surely a delectable dessert like a Swiss roll would deserve a more grandiose musical homage!

Thus, the Grande Gourmet Edition for solo piano was born. It is, as its predecessor, a three-part musical celebration of the experience one might have with a Swiss Roll, starting with the anticipation of getting to taste one, proceeding through the blissful delight of eating one, and concluding with the profound melancholy of longing for the memory of the Swiss roll that is no more. However, as the name implies, this one is no longer the simple piece the original was, but... a lot more fun!

Of course, as promised, if you'd like to download the sheet music for the piece, I've included links to do so for all three versions: the original for two violins, the piano adaptation, as well as the Grande Gourmet Edition for those of you who are feeling especially ambitious.

Bon Appétit!

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