Favorite String Quartets

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Selected recordings from digitized piano rolls and virtual pipe organ renditions by VViljanen, and contemporary music composed or/and presented by my good friends, composers, singers and instrumentalists from all over the world.

Moods III

contemporary classical

Dokkedal-Dixen - Pon De Prodigy (More Lazer edit)

Music: String Quartet No. 1, Op. 2 — III. Presto
Composer: Zoltán Kodály
Artist: Alexander String Quartet
Album: Bartók & Kodály
Label: Foghorn Classics

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The Alexander String Quartet brings to life the complete quartets of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály in this new 3-CD release. Contemporaries and fellow ethnomusicologist-composers, Bartók and Kodály wrote some of the most beautiful, beguiling, and ultimately influential string quartet music of the 20th century. Producer and multiple Grammy® winner Judith Sherman captured the recordings of these eight quartets under superb conditions, performed on the Ellen M. Egger Quartet of instruments by luthier Francis Kuttner.

Kodály String Quartet No. 1, Op. 2 — III. Presto

Music: Excerpt from String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10  — II Andante: Quasi recitativo — Allegro giocoso
Composer: Zoltán Kodály
Artist: Alexander String Quartet
Album: Bartók & Kodály
Label: Foghorn Classics

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The Alexander String Quartet brings to life the complete quartets of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály in this new 3-CD release. Contemporaries and fellow ethnomusicologist-composers, Bartók and Kodály wrote some of the most beautiful, beguiling, and ultimately influential string quartet music of the 20th century. Producer and multiple Grammy® winner Judith Sherman captured the recordings of these eight quartets under superb conditions, performed on the Ellen M. Egger Quartet of instruments by luthier Francis Kuttner.

Kodály: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10  — II (excerpt)

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ANAMANAGUCHI
Wed.	Mar. 16	Brooklyn Vegan Day Party @ Emo's (main stage) - 12 PM
Wed.	Mar. 16	Shout It Out Loud Party @ Beauty Bar East - 5PM/6PM
Thu.	Mar. 17	Insound Party @ Club DeVille - 1 PM
Sat.	Mar. 19	Peelander-Z Party @ The Grackle - 4:40 PM
Sat. 	Mar. 19	Panache Showcase @ The Mohawk (inside) - 8:50 PM


CASS MCCOMBS
Thu.	Mar. 17 	Other Music @ French Legation - 2pm 
Thu.	Mar. 17 	Domino Showcase @ Emo's Main Room [outside]
Fri.	Mar. 18 	GorillavsBear Party @ Klub Krucial - 3:30pm
Fri. 	Mar. 18	Pitchfork Day Party @ East Side Drive In - 6pm 


CHAIN GANG OF 1974
Thu. 	Mar. 17	Bright Antenna/ILG Party @ Maggie Mae's Rooftop - 3 PM
Thu.	Mar. 17	The FADER Fort @ 1101 East 5th Street - 5:15 PM
Fri.	Mar. 18	Windish Agency Party @ Emo's - 1:15 PM
Fri.	Mar. 18	Windish House Party @ ND at 501 Studios - 10 PM
Sat. 	Mar. 19	Day Party @ Double Down Lounge - 7 PM


ERLAND & THE CARNIVAL
Thu.	Mar. 17 	Yep Roc Music Group Showcase @ Maddie Mae's - 1 AM
Fri.	Mar. 18	Redeye Party @ Dirty Dog - 1:20 PM


O'DEATH
Wed.	Mar. 16	Noise Pop SF vs. Brooklyn Day Party @ Red Eyed Fly - 4:15 PM
Thu.	Mar. 17	Panacha Showcase @ Red 7 Outside - 11:20 PM
Sat.	Mar. 19	Ernest Jenning Record Co showcase @ The FiveOneTwo - 11 PM


SHARON VAN ETTEN
Wed.	Mar. 16	KUT-FM Live Broadcast @ Hilton Lobby - 10:35 AM
Wed.	Mar. 16	Brooklyn Vegan Showcase @ Swan Dive - 12 AM
Thu.	Mar. 17	Other Music Party @ French Legation - 3 PM
Fri.	Mar. 18	The Onion A.V. Club Party @ Mohawk - 3 PM
Sat.	Mar. 19	Red Ryder Showcase @ Central Presbyterian Church - 8:30 PM

Chain Gang of 1974 - Matter of Time

recorded by Zach Miley at San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Nick Vasallo - Elements Of Metal; I. Collapsing Obsidian Sun

Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus (Alex Metric Remix)

world premiere in park city, ut on 7/31/14

Frictive Grit by Anthony Suter

Depeche Mode - Home  Live In Carcassone 6/07/2009

Recorded live at CSU Stanislaus April 3, 2014

Philip Glass String Quartet No. 5

Aruna Sairam (vocal), Reggie Workman (bass), Anjna Swaminathan (violin), Vijay Iyer (piano). Recorded May 27, 2014. 

Kantamam

Juiced is a piece about the impossibility of physical ideals and the weird things people to try to achieve them. 

Premiere by Friction Quartet at the Center for New Music on 12/5/2014.
Violins - Kevin Rogers and Otis Harriel
Viola - Taija Warbelow
Cello - Doug Machiz

Juiced (excerpt)

David Lang: cheating, lying, stealing

Performed live at Center for New Music, San Francisco on December 5, 2014.

Audio by Zach Miley

Radiohead - Exit Music(for a film) arr. Doug Machiz

Recorded by Friction Quartet in 2015.

Inspired by two prison work songs recorded at Angola State Prison in the 1940’s by John and Alan Lomax titled Rosie and Take This Hammer.

Take This Hammer - Friction Quartet

remix of @billieeilish ocean eyes extra production by blackbear


billie eilish - ocean eyes (blackbear remix)

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j.S.Bach-Busoni; Chaconne* BWV1004 played by Ferruccio Busoni and published Nov. 1925 (posthum.) on Duo-Art 6928. 
c Recorded  (by permission)from the digitially simulated original reproducing piano roll  in 2016 and the rec updated  13 Feb 2024 by VViljanen  using on its playback and rec. a modelled Bechstein 1896 Grand, reconfigured, revoiced and yhe rec.setup made by VV.
COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED.
Photo: Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
The basic info* of the original piano roll:
CHACONNE (Andante maestoso) from Sonata (Suite) in D-minor for solo Violin (transcribed by Busoni)
Roll Number: 6928, 6928-5
Composer/Creator: Bach
Pianist: Busoni
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: November, 1925
Category: classical
Original Price: $3.25
*source: The PlayerPiano Group web page (by permission)

Bach-Busoni: Chaconne BWV1004. Transcription for piano

Bach-Busoni: Chaconne BWV 1004. Ferruccio Busoni  1925 (pub.posthum) on Duo-Art 6928

Artur Schnabel (1882-1951) plays in 1924 J.S. Bach: Italian Concerto I - Allegro, Ampico Piano Roll 62721.  Recorded in 2016, and the rec updated  June 3, 2020 by VViljanen (by permission)from a reconstructed and digitally simulated copy of the original reproducing piano roll with virtual Grand Bluethner Model One, tone/sound modified/re-designed by VV.
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Basic info of the original piano roll in 1924:
ITALIAN CONCERTO Movement. 1 allegro
 
Roll Number: 62721, 62721H
Composer/Creator: Bach
Pianist: Schnabel
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: January, 1924
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.00

J.S. Bach: Italian Concerto - I. Allegro. Artur Schnabel 1924 on Ampico 62721

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thank you guys so much for the support lately! here's something you can put on while you study or something. art by me!

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tracklist:

1. enchant (0:00)
2. hot chocolate (1:06)
3. white forest walk (2:20)
4. at the bridge (4:20)
5. kids (5:26)
6. black ice (6:40)
7. february (7:39)
8. firewood (8:59)
9. snowfall (10:03)

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cinnamon [beat tape]

Mendelssohn: Prelude and Fugue Op 35 no 1 Em, Adela Verne in 1925 on Duo-Art 0217.
Recorded in 2016 by VViljanen (by permission)from a digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED. 
Photo: Adela Verne (1877-1952)was a notable English pianist and minor composer of German descent, born in Southampton. She was considered one of the greatest woman pianists of her era, ranked alongside the male keyboard giants of the time. She toured with great success in many parts of the world. She composed a variety of works, including a Military March dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother; her sister Mathilde's pupil. Adela (or Adèle) Verne was born into a musical family named Wurm. Three of her sisters (of her nine older siblings) were also notable pianists or composers: Mathilde and Alice both also adopted the surname Verne, but Mary returned to Germany, retained the family name Wurm, and enjoyed great success as a pianist and composer.
Clara Schumann heard Adela play when she was but a small girl. She was so impressed that she wanted to take her to Frankfurt for study, as she had done with Mathilde, however her parents would not permit this. Instead, she was instructed by Mathilde and Alice, and later by Clara Schumann's daughter Marie Schumann. At age 13 she made her debut in Tchaikovsky's Concerto No.1 in B-flat minor, conducted by Sir August Manns at the Crystal Palace. Tchaikovsky himself heard of this astonishing young prodigy and wanted to meet her. The following year she was introduced to Ignacy Jan Paderewski. He was so impressed with her playing that he predicted a great future for her. At his home in Morges in Switzerland, she studied Chopin with Paderewski, as well as most of his own works, including the Sonata in E-flat minor, the Polish Fantasy and the Concerto in A minor, the work with which she made her orchestral debut in New York City. (source: Wikipedia)
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
PRELUDE AND FUGUE, Op. 35, No. 1 in E-minor
Roll Number: 0217, 0217
Composer/Creator: Mendelssohn
Pianist: Verne
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: UK
Date: March, 1925
Category: classical
Original Price: n/a
*info source: from The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Mendelssohn: Prelude and Fugue Op 35 no 1 em, Adela Verne 1925, on Duo-Art 0217

Schumann: Intermezzo Op.26 No.4, From Faschingschwank aus Wien (Viennese Carnival Pranks). Irene Scharrer in 1926 on Duo-Art 70499. - Recorded 11 Apr 2017, and the rec updated 18 Feb 2018, by VViljanen (by permission)from a digitally simulated original reproducing piano roll.
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Photo: Irene Scharrer
The Basic info* of the original piano roll:
INTERMEZZO, Op. 26, No. 4 from "Viennese Carnival Pranks"
Roll Number: 7049, 70499
Composer/Creator: Schumann
Pianist: Scharrer
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: August, 1926
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.25
*source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Schumann: Intermezzo Op. 26 No. 4 'Viennese Carnival Pranks'. Irene Scharrer 1926 on Duo-Art 70499

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Bellyache (Marian Hill Remix)

Breathe Carolina & Dropgun Ft. Kaleena Zanders - Rhythm Is A Dancer is out now!

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Breathe Carolina & Dropgun Ft. Kaleena Zanders - Rhythm Is A Dancer [OUT NOW]

A Mass in D composed in 2010. Intro+ liturgy parts for the texts from the Evangelic-Lutheran  mass handbook in Finland. Inspired by Rev. 7:17. Mass undertitle: "The Springs of Living Water"
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The Littoinen Pipe Organ Virtual Studio Most Humbly Presents

E-P.Kanniainen Missa in D op.7 arr.by VV&E-PK

Radiohead - Everything Its In The Right Place (D-Tech Edit)

Oakland/ Bay Area-based String Quartet

Friction Quartet exists to modernize the chamber music experience and expand the string quartet repertoire. Friction achieves this mission by commissioning new works, curating imaginative programs, collaborating with artists, and presenting interactive educational outreach.