Etude On The Roll And Beyond* Revisited
*...with more recent techniques simulating the piano roll principles ( - like live midi)

Etude On The Roll And Beyond Revisited

Beethoven: I. Allegro Con Spirito. Of Sonata No.3 In Eb for piano & violin.
Arranged /transcribed or Two Pianos by VViljanen Aug 18-20, 2024.
Produced on / after a sequence of H.Fesefeldt (1942-2019) ca 2010's. H.F. was a German nuclear physics researcher, and music software developer. This rec. was worked out of playback of the rewritten sequence, after a considerable amount of re-reading, and re-editing made to that of Hesefeldt, e.g. to its articulations, dynamics etc.
A pair of modeled Petrof Mistral 284 grand pianos, in a cathedral surruondings, were used, the instruments were revoiced, and reconfigured, and the rec.setup was made by VV.

Beethoven: I. Allegro Con Spirito. Sonata No.3 In Eb.TArr. for Two Pianos

Beethoven: Allegro Con Spirito. M.1 of Sonata Op.12 n3 Eb major for p & v. Transcr. for Two Pianos

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue. Adam Carroll 1926 on Ampico 66133.
Reproduced of a digitally simulated reconstructed original reproducing piano roll by VViljanen Mar18, 2025 on playback with Petrof Mistral 284 grand, revoiced & reconfigured by VV, as well as was done also the rec setup.
Photo: Adam Carroll (1897-1974)

George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue. Adam Carroll 1926 on Ampico 66133

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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

Antiguas Verdades I

Antiguas Verdades II

Arensky: Etude Op 36 No 13.  Gitta Gradova*** Sep.1927, on Duo-Art 71520. Recorded for educational and pedagogical purposes  2016, and the rec. updated Feb 22, 2019** by VViljanen (by permission) from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED.
Photo: Gitta Gradova with her colleaque and friend Vladimir Horowitz (cont'd below with a short biography***)
Gitta Gradova (1904 – April 26, 1985), also known as Gitta Cottle and Gertrude Weinstock, was an American pianist. At 19, she performed with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. She was a friend of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Vladimir Horowitz; Arturo Toscanini praised her work.
Basic info* of the original reproducing piano roll in 1927:
ETUDE, Op. 36, No. 13 in F-sharp from "Twenty-Four Morceaux"
Roll Number: 7152, 71520
Composer/Creator: Arensky
Pianist: Gradova
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: September, 1927
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.50
*source of the info:  from The Player Piano Group web page (by permission)
**with Grand Petrof model 275, re-configurated and setup by VV.
***SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
Gertrude Weinstock (1904 – April 26, 1985), also known as Gitta Gradova and Gitta Cottle, was an American pianist.
Gertrude Weinstock was born in Chicago, the youngest child of Joseph and Sonya Weinstock. Her parents were both Russian Jewish immigrants to the United States; Gertrude was their only American-born child. Her father, Joseph Weinstock, was a rabbi by profession; both of her parents had been actors in Yiddish theatre when young.[1] Identified as a musical talent in childhood[2] she was already performing as a soloist in Chicago before her teens.[3][4] Her teacher in Chicago from age 7 was Esther Harris Dua.[5][6] Gitta Weinstock was sent to New York at age 13, to study piano with Sergei Prokofiev.
At 19, Gertrude Weinstock (using the name Gitta Gradova) performed with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. She was a friend of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Vladimir Horowitz; Arturo Toscanini praised her work.[8] "Miss Gradova is a pianist whose own brilliancy, accuracy, and forcefulness become a transforming medium for what she plays," wrote a Chicago critic in 1931.[9] She toured in Europe in 1935, and was featured at the Chicago's outdoor Ravinia Festival in 1938 and 1941.
Although she retired from performing in 1942, she never stopped practicing daily at home; she taught piano, and played for guests and friends, according to her son. At the time of her death, she was planning for a return to the concert stage, to play Rachmaninoff's First Piano Concerto with the Chicago Symphony under James Levine.
She married a doctor, Maurice Cottle. They had two children, Thomas and Judy; both of her children earned PhDs. Judy became a cabaret singer in New York.[13] Gitta Cottle died in 1985, aged 80, in Chicago.
 Her son Thomas Cottle wrote a memoir about her, When the Music Stopped: Discovering my Mother (SUNY Press 2004). 
Several recordings of her playing, including a private 1950 recording of Gradova and Horowitz playing a Mozart piano duet, are now available online.
(From Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Weinstock )

Arensky: Etude  Op. 36 No 13.  Gitta Gradova Sep.1927 on Duo-Art 71520

(This is another piano roll rec of this etude by Irene Scharrer, the other one, from separate recording, has been  posted here previously)
Chopin: Etude Op.25 No.11 "Winterwind" played by Irene Scharrer  on DuoArt  073. Recorded 2016 (and rec updated 30 Sep 2017) from a digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll  by VV (by permission).
ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED.
The basic info of the original roll:
ETUDE (Winter Wind), Op. 25, No. 11 in A-minor (Lento)
Roll Number: 073, 073
Composer/Creator: Chopin
Pianist: Scharrer
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: UK
Date: by September, 1923
Category: classical
Original Price: n/a
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Chopin: Etude "Winterwind" Op.25 No 11. Irene Scharrer in 1923 on Duo-Art  073

Chopin: Etude Op. 25 No 5. Doris Madden Un 1910's On Artrio 8087.
Recorded 30 Mar 2017 by VViljanen (by permission)from a digitally processed copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED. 
Photo: Frederic Chopin in 1849(the only known photograph of Chopin)
Doris Madden (1886-1976) was Australian-born concert pianist, and the accompanist of the legendary coloratura soprano Nellie Melba.

Chopin: Etude Op. 25 No 5. Doris Madden in 1910's on Artrio 8087

Chopin: Etude Op 25 No 7 C#m . George Proctor In 1910's On Ampico 57816.
Virtually audio-recorded from the digitized copy of the original piano roll 3 Apr 2017 by VViljanen.
COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED.
Photo: James Proctor in ca.1910 (on the right), the housle-headed pianist and future Professor of The New England Conservatory (source: 'Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists Since 1860')
The basic info* of the original piano roll:
ETUDE Op. 25, No. 7, C sharp minor
Roll Number: 57816, 57816H
Composer/Creator: Chopin
Pianist: Proctor
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: n/a
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.00
'source: The Piano Player Group web page

Chopin: Etude Op 25 No 7 C#m . George Proctor In 1910's On Ampico 57816

Chopin: Etude Gb Op 25 No 9 'Butterfly'. James Whittaker In 1910's On Ampico 51612. 
Audio-recorded 3 Apr 2017 by VViljanen (by permission) from digitally simulated original piano roll.
ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED. 
Photo: from Butterfly Watching Nepal
The Basic info* of the original piano roll:
ETUDE Op. 25, No. 9, G flat (Butterfly)
Roll Number: 51612, 51612D
Composer/Creator: Chopin
Pianist: Whittaker
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: n/a
Category: classical
Original Price: $1.00
*source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Chopin: Etude Gb Op 25 No 9 'Butterfly'. James Whittaker In 1910's On Ampico 51612

Chopin: Etude Op.10 No.4 C#m. Tina Lerner in 1928 on Ampico 68543.
Recorded by VViljanen 6 Apr 2017 (by permission) from the digitized piano roll copy.
COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED.
Photo: Tina Lerner,  Russian Pianist in 1913, on the Moscow Philharmonic US Tour.
The basic info* of the original piano roll:
(1. GAVOTTE Op. 14, A flat minor Sgambati;) 
2. ETUDE Op. 10, No. 4, C sharp minor
Roll Number: 68543, 68543H
Composer/Creator: Chopin
Pianist: Lerner
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: February, 1928
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.00
*source: The Player Piano Group web page (by permission)

Chopin: Etude Op. 10 No. 4 C#m. Tina Lerner in 1928 on Ampico 68543

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.

Arensky: Etude Op. 36 No 13. Gitta Gradova Sep.1927 on Duo-Art 71520

Veikko Viljanen

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