Piano Solo

"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)

A bit of crazy improvising...

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Gatecrashing The Ball

This song is about being stuck in an endless loop of working life, the realisation of never ending monotony, to finally working out how to handle it and the hope of escaping it.

A big thank you to Pat Morey for the use of his house to record and for mixing this song. Also Gavin Smith for the use of his drums and equipment.

The Circle

Chopin, as always, making pain beautiful.
IMO the most perfect of his 21 nocturnes.

Chopin Nocturne In C Minor Opus 48/1

Chopin making the piano keys all dirty with awesome.


Performed by James Rhodes (obvs).

Chopin Ballade No. 3 In A - Flat Major, Op. 47

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)

Collab with Roberto Klavi 😃
Music , Mix & Mastering:   Roberto Klavi
Lyrics & Singing:    Just 

Oryginal track:    Cybernetic Dreams -by Roberto Klavi  #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/hDjWe.               

Enjoy listening 😃🎶🌺

In the shadow of the night

Hanging on a Comet

120 Beeps Per Minute

Inspired by the Books by Mark Smith - The Road to Winter, Wilder Country and Land of Fences. (Australian Apocalypse )

On The Border (Land of Fences)

Brain Fog

Angels And Butterflies

Weekend

Illustration: Johnhain
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Normal Tension By Zitou Itou & LOU OSIAVO

Everybody's Moving 'Left-Right.'

Arthur Rubinstein playsLiszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12,  in 1920's on Ampico Piano Roll 58087. Recorded 2016, and the rec. updated 1 Jun 2017, by VViljanen (by oermission)from the digitized of the original reproducing piano roll.
ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY (RHAPSODIE HONGROISE) No. 12
 Roll Number: 58087, 58087H
Composer/Creator: Liszt
Pianist: Rubinstein
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: n/a
Category: classical, popular
Original Price: $2.00
*source: from The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 12. Arthur Rubinstein in 1920's on Ampico 58087

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.

Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 12. Arthur Rubinstein in 1920's on Ampico 58087

Veikko Viljanen

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