I can't you believe you have only 300 followers, it's amazing!!!!

All the possibilities of playing the piano are packed. excitement.

Absolute mastery of the keys, a stunning performance! Beauty in your music and the gorgeous harmonies, beauty in the images the music creates of the snowstorm galloping on ever more urgently, and sheer beauty for my ear, my pulse quickens, I am mesmerized!   Such control, you definitely practiced your scales! Bravo and please return!

Es una obra de arte esta pieza !! 👏🏻

Examples of Contemporary Masterpieces for Piano, found in SC, listed here in arbitrary order. The list will  be added little by little...

Contemporary Masterpieces For Piano

"Offrande" ("Offering") for piano solo, beautifully performed and recorded by the amazing Phil Best, to whom I give my profound thanks.

Score available for purchase at: http://www.swirlymusic.org/music/solo-piano/r-a-moulds-offrande-for-solo-piano/

Offrande (performed and recorded by Phil Best)(Op. 88, 2013)

Improvisation 01

A grey fog casts across London's cityscape - rain pattering and wind hissing. Despite this, we strive as in this city, there is full of opportunity.

Composer and Pianist: Shirley Ly
Violinist: Minsi Yang Johnson
Cellist: Patrick Tapio Johnson

© SHIRLEY LY

London Strive - Recomposed by Shirley Ly | Violin, Cello and Piano Trio

Piano, sad, contemporary, classic, thoughtful

IpadSeries#1 - May

Piano suite II (Laraian) part I

Aquarelles: IV. Hirondelles au Crépuscule (Swallows at Dusk) performed by the tremendously gifted Phil Best. Available for purchase of download or hard copy at https://www.swirlymusic.org/music/solo-piano/r-a-moulds-aquarelles-book-i-solo-piano/

Aquarelles: IV. Hirondelles au Crépuscule (performed by Phil Best)

First recording, piano solo
Duncan Gifford, piano
Madrid, 20 June 2024
Recoring engineer Luis Fonseca

Malcolm X, a portrait. Mono Opera. Suburbs.Piano

Music inspired by the novel "Anna Karenina" by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy
http://www.free-scores.com/partition?p=aLa2xetCjZ

Anna Karenina by Serban Nichifor

My contribution to Piano Day 2018, a piano piece made for the occasion.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7I05DXoskcchgKMPUm6APA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grDjh2kgGmc

Bjørn-Henrik Zink - Reflections (Piano Day 2018)

Breathe with me whilst listening to this poignant solo piano moment, in celebration of Piano Day 2018.

Breathing

Snow Flakes

Winter Fantasy

Piano suite II (Laraian) part IV

Lumina (2020)
for orchestra (2222.4331.3perc.harp.pno.strings)

Performed by the USC Thornton Symphony (Donald Crockett, conductor)

Program note:

"Lumina" explores the spectrum of light and dark and the murkiness in between. Using swift contrasts between bright, sharp timbres and cloudy textures and dense harmonies, the piece captures sudden bursts of radiance amongst the eeriness of shadows.

Lumina

Music for String Quintet

Movement 1: Air - Fragile as Light Mist from the Sea

Movement 2: Moon Mirror - An Inner Mystical Dialogue

Movement 3: To the Sea - The Sea as a Refuge, Bearer, and Healer

Movement 4: Chi - Waves Interacting

Performed by the Uppsala Chamber Soloists.

Notes from the Sea

A short collection of piano miniatures, written for my dear friend, Rob Haskins. Note that the set is presented in order of composition, but the performer has the option of rearranging the order in any way that suits him or her. (Note: this is a MIDI realization of the score.)

Sheet music may be purchased at: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/21142973

Piano Set (Complete)

Self-taught composer. Creative and admirer of the beauties of the universe.
Piano...when I can.
I love all kinds of music.


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My warmest thanks to everyone stopping by for listening to my  'REVIEW   OF THE PAST TIME PIANISTS' INTERPRETATIONS ON THE HISTORICAL PIANO ROLLS, and also to a small LIST of MY MODEST OWN RENDITIONS, all of the latter representing a variety of piano music & some pipe-organ classics, - and  TO THE Growing LISTS OF (just lately done and reproduced)  TRANSCRIPTIONS OF VARIOUS CHAMBER MUSIC CLASSICAL PEARLS FOR TWO PIANOS.
A HEADSET IS RECOMMENDED for optimal sound experience!
This kind of 'touching' on these old pre-sound-rec. era works by the great performers of the past, and giving my sound to these old 'punch rolls',  makes me feel  deep humbleness, .and I wish that this modest attempt to bring these  performances alive will satisfy you listening to them!
To introduce myself...
I am a Finnish M.D., PhD. and Hand Surgeon (now retired), previously when young with 10 years of professionally orientated piano studies at Turku Conservatory in 1965-1975, partly  along with medical University studies. 
The digital sound techniques have become very familiar to me already from 1980's along with my university research work  
and my musical activities.
As continuation to my musical and professional experience, I have, during the last few years of my retirement, adopted a music historical challenge
to bring the past time major and minor pianists, prior to sound-recording era, onto the same 'start line' with the present pianists, by making their presentations, played onto 'punch rolls' i.e. piano rolls, audible with modern digital techniques. This wouldn't be possible without the pioneering  efforts of Richard Stibbons, Wayne Stahnke, Terry Smythe, Warren Trachtman, Spencer Chase, and others, who developed the optical digitizing techniques of the piano rolls, and digitized them.

The main part of my recordings here in SC consists of selection recorded by me from optically digitized piano-rolls** (from 1910's on or earlier, classical and 'vintage era'). These recordings of mine are not and will not be commercially unavailable. - The rolls were first optically scanned and converted into a digital form by diverse operators** (see also to the info of each piece). The pieces here were partly (minor part) picked from various open net sources, publicly available, but mainly from the huge archive (n=ca.5000) of digitized copies copies of the original reproducing piano rolls, made available to me by one of the pioneers of roll digitizing tehchniques (willing to keep anonymous), and then recorded from this archive mainly with virtual grand piano (called by me 'Bluethner Model One') modified/re-designed by me, as well as the rec settings. 
Also a minor selection of my own renditions among my records can be found here, included on my playlist 'Bach Goes Virtual', the name of the list telling something about the techniques used for getting the end result... The list includes various organ works by J.S.Bach and others, and also a few piano renditions of mine. Then there are included also various pieces which have been in my repertoire, but here played mainly by the  'guest' great players of the past (before the sound recording era).
MY MOST HUMBLE THANKS TO THE NOBLE DONOR  OF THIS INVALUABLE PIANO ROLL MATERIAL FOR MY USE!!!
My Sincere Thanks also to The Player Piano Group, UK, for providing me their permission to use the information about the piano rolls collected and provided on their web page ( https://rolls.playerpianogroup.org.uk ),  and for simplifying my short historical presentations of these renditions on their re-publication here!
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, MY MOST HUMBLE THANKS TO EVERYONE  OF YOU FOR LISTENING, AND FOR YOUR 'LIKES' & COMMENTS !
YOUR LISTENING & FEEDBACK IS TRULY APPRECIATED..!!.
Use of good headphones or speakers will make your music experience more enjoyable!
Best wishes, all the best
Veikko
These recordings are not commercially available, and ANY KIND OF THEIR COMMERCIAL USE IS PROHIBITED.

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