@g-gabrielle: Levitzki is one of my great favorites among the pianists of the past..!

Piano compositions by Anton Rubinstein played on piano rolls mainly in 1920's. Recorded in 2016-2017 by VViljanen (by permission) from the digitized copies of the original reproducing piano rolls prepared by others.

Anton Rubinstein On The Roll Revisited

4/20

Ho incontrato una vecchia signora

Ho incontrato una vecchia signora
Con i guanti la sciarpa e il cappello
Mi diceva che sono un amore
Ma suo figlio è molto più bello

Occhi neri e il sorriso smagliante
Una statura molto imponente
Suo figlio una nave viaggiante
Nel cuore e nella sua mente

Ha un viso grazioso che incanta
È una donna di bella presenza
Ma lei sottovoce mi dice
Sono stanca e non sono felice

Tiene in braccio un gran mazzo di fiori
Lo accarezza con timide mani
Come una mamma che tiene suo figlio
Ma quei fiori son crisantemi

Son vent’anni e il mese era maggio
Son vent’anni che ormai io non dormo
È partito per un lungo viaggio
Un viaggio lungo e senza ritorno

Ho incontrato una vecchia signora
Con i guanti la sciarpa e il cappello
Mi diceva che sono un amore
Ma suo figlio era molto più bello

Ho incontrato una vecchia signora

Water Of Life (2024) Anthology CD5 Track 02

Flow * Instrumental

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Swarmed By Force

Dragon Fly-By

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TITLE: Moonlit Guardian
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LYRICS:
(Verse 1)
She moves through dunes with stars in her eyes
Whispering secrets to the endless skies
A silver crescent rests in her hand
The moon obeys her soft command

(Chorus)
Moonlit guardian protector of the night
Her glow consumes the shadows in flight
She weaves the tides with her ancient might
An Egyptian goddess draped in lunar light

(Verse 2)
Desert winds sing her timeless song
Echoing through pyramids strong
She watches over with an ageless grace
Her presence fills the celestial space

(Bridge)
Ankh and scarab bound to her throne
Shimmering sands like diamonds are sown
Her voice a hymn the stars have known
Guiding the moon she's never alone

(Chorus)
Moonlit guardian protector of the night
Her glow consumes the shadows in flight
She weaves the tides with her ancient might
An Egyptian goddess draped in lunar light

(Verse 3)
She dances softly on the Nile’s skin
A guardian queen of the world within
Each phase a story written in glow
From crescent’s start to full moon’s show

Goddess Eye of The Night Sky

Moonlit Guardian

The sun dips low it says goodbye
The stars ignite they light the sky
The hush of night it whispers near
A brand new day will soon appear

Shadows stretch and moonlight sings
The night is full of quiet things
The world resets it breathes it bends
Another chance as darkness ends

A new day dawns .mp3

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 0 (Zero, composed 1784 at the age of 14 yrs), Woo 4. Transcribed & reproduced for two pianos June 4, and again 16, 2025 by VViljanen. - On recording a pair of Bluethner modeled grand pianos, revoiced & reconfigured by VV, were used , as well as also was made the rec. setup.

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 0 (Zero), Woo 4. Ttranscr. for two pianos

L.v.Beethoven: Rondo alla polacca. Mvt 3 of Triple-concerto Op.56 for Violin, Cello, Piano &Orchestra. Transcribed for 2 pianos by VV June 12-18, 2025 (take nr18....👀🤔) reproduced on/after a now-modified score sequence generated earlier by Wittenburg . Photo/Picture: Beethoven, sepia photo by VV of portrait/painting by Hornemann 1803.

Beethoven: Rondo alla Polacca. Mvt3 of Triple Concerto Op.56. Transcr. for two pianos by VV

Beethoven: III.Rondo alla polacca of Triple-concerto Op.56. Transcr. for 2 pianos by VV

Anton Rubinstein: Barcarolle No. 5 in A Minor, Op.93 no.7. Sergei Rachmaninoff June 1929. on Ampico 69893.
Recorded 19 Sep 2017 (v.4) by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
ANY KINF OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED. 
Photo; Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Basic nfo* of the original piano roll:
BARCAROLLE (BOAT SONG) A minor
Roll Number: 69893, 69893H
Composer/Creator: Rubinstein
Pianist: Rachmaninoff
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: June, 1929
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.00
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Anton Rubinstein: Barcarolle No 5 in Am Op. 93 No 7. Sergei Rachmaninoff Jun 1929 on Ampico 69893

Anton Rubinstein Barcarolle No. 5 Op.93, Oliver Denton in 1922 in Duo-Art 6502.
Recorded Oct 12, 2017, and Mar,14, 2018 by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED. 
Photo: Oliver Denton (1886-1928)(Source: The AMICA Bulletin)
Information* on the original piano roll:
BARCAROLLE (Fifth), Op. 93 
Roll Number: 6502, 6502-3
Composer/Creator: Rubinstein
Pianist: Denton
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: February, 1922
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.75 (Price after 1922)
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Anton Rubinstein: Barcarolle No 5 Op. 93. Oliver Denton 1922 on Duo-Art 6502

Anton Rubinstein: Barcarolle No 1 in F Minor Op. 30. Edwin Hughes in 1925 on Duo-Art 6883.
Recorded Mar 14, 2017 and 2018 by VViljanen (by permission)from digitally simulated reconstructed original reproducing piano roll, usig on its replay and recording a modelled Bechstein grand, reconfigure, revoiced and setup by VV.
ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED. 
Photo; Edwin Hughes (1884-1965) The American pianist and teacher. He studied with S.M. Fabian in Washington, D.C., with Joseffy in New York (1906-1907), and with Leschetizky in Vienna (1907-1910). - Edwib Hughes taught at the Ganapol School of Musical Art in Detroit from 1910 to 1912, the Volpe Institute of Music in New York from 1916 to 1917, and the Institute of Musical Art in New York from 1918 to 1923. He lectured at various schools. From 1920 to 1926 he was special editor of piano music for G. Schirmer, Inc. He toured widely in the USA and Europe after the close of World War I; performed duo-recitals with his wife, the pianist Jewel Bethany Hughes, and also gave master-classes. Source: Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical Musicians (1997)
Information on the original piano roll:
BARCAROLLE (First), Op. 30 in F-minor
Roll Number: 6883, 68830
Composer/Creator: Rubinstein
Pianist: Hughes
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: June, 1925
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.50

Anton Rubinstein: Barcarolle No 1 in F minor Op. 30. Edwin Hughes 1925 on Duo-Art 6883

Anton Rubinstein: Barcarolle No. 4 G Major (without opus number), 
Mischa Levitzki in 1926, on Ampico 66723.
Recorded 14 Mar 2017and the rec updated Jan 5, 2020 by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll with virtual Grand Bluethner Model One, tone/sound modified/re-voiced/re-designed by VV.
COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED. 
Photo; Mischa Levitzki (1898-1941)
Information on the original piano roll:
BARCAROLLE No. 4, G major
Roll Number: 66723, 66723H
Composer/Creator: Rubinstein
Pianist: Levitzki
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: November, 1926
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.00

Anton Rubinstein: Barcarolle No 4 G Major (w/o op. nr). Mischa Levitzki in 1926 on Ampico 66723

Anton Rubinstein: Barcarolle Op 50 No.3, Alexander Sklarevski in 1924 on Ampico 63551.
Recorded in 2017, and 12 Mar 2018,  by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll with virtual Grand Bluethner Model One, tone/sound modified/re-designed by VV.
COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED. 
Photo: Abton Rubinstein (1829-1994)
Information on the original piano roll:
BARCAROLLE (BOAT SONG) Op. 50, No. 3, G minor
Roll Number: 63551, 63551G
Composer/Creator: Rubinstein
Pianist: Sklarevski
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: September, 1924
Category: classical
Original Price: $1.75

Anton Rubinstein: Barcarolle G minor Op. 50 No. 3 Alexander Sklarevski in 1924 on Ampico 63551

My warmest thanks to everyone stopping by for listening to my tracks, the most of the representing a  'REVIEW   OF THE PAST TIME PIANISTS' INTERPRETATIONS ON THE HISTORICAL PIANO ROLLS, and in addition to them, also to a minor but growing  LISTS of MY MY 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.

Anton Rubinstein: Barcarolle No 4 G Major (w/o op. nr). Mischa Levitzki in 1926 on Ampico 66723

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