a track by Marco Lucchi reworked by Asterios Faros

maggio 2023

Asterios Faros & Marco Lucchi - ὁ γ​ὰ​ρ κ​α​ι​ρ​ὸ​ς ἐ​γ​γ​ύ​ς

Memories... some light up like a flash of lightning... others whisper like drops of rain long gone...
I invite you to listen to my piano improvisation " Whispers of Remembrance".
The sheet music of some of my compositions can be downloaded from my website https://pianoimprovictor.com/ Some new works are available on  https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/victor-birkan-sheet-music/3028943?isPLP=1
Find all my music here: https://linktr.ee/victorbirkan

Whispers Of Remembrance - Improvised Piano Piece

When love deceives, when love fails.
A melancholic love song for Piano, Saxophone and String Orchestra.
Improvised and recorded in my sound studio.

The two instruments, Piano and Sax, are in a dialog.
Carried by a soft orchestral sound, they exchange tunes, they complement, sometimes imitate, sometimes contradict each other. 
Rarely forming a common harmony.

Little erratic time signatures reinforce the sense of disharmony.

Haunted Love

Sinnsuche

Sinnsuche - Search for meaning

« Fantasy planet Troyenne »
Here's my new piece for solo guitar - Duration : 11'
Composed by handwriting in front of the mountains of Savoy here at Saint Pierre de Curtille in Savoy - F from Wednesday, August 3 to Saturday, August 5, 2023
Sonata in 3 movements :
I. Moderato espressivo
II. Andante misterioso
III. Allegro giocoso
« The most well-known Trojan asteroids are those associated with Jupiter. There are two groups: those located at L4, ahead of Jupiter, and those located at L5, behind Jupiter. Each group is made up of thousands of objects. The American mission Lucy is on the way to go and study them.
Moreover, it was theorized about twenty years ago that pairs of planets of similar mass could also share the same orbit around their star. These particular configurations are called troyen planets or co-orbital planets. In this scenario, again, the planets would be located at the stable Lagrange points of their planetary system and would thus follow similar trajectories »
As mentioned above, this type of configuration has been only theoretical until now. A few days ago, astronomers from the Madrid Center for Astrobiology finally identified the first evidence in favour of this idea »
Franck Douvin © 2023 Contemporary chamber music
Thanks for listening & sharing
I hope you'll enjoy !

« Fantasy planet Troyenne » My new piece for solo guitar in three movements

Spacedust

Solo Piano - Chris Bright

what you need now - 10:28:23, 7.39 PM

An old and accomplished matador  is sitting on the porch of his hacienda  in the North of Spain, smoking a pipe and reminiscing about the glory days of a colourful life he has lived. Love,fame, deception... he had it all and he would never change a thing!

Mixing Spanish flavour with Electro.... decided  to travel to la España today....

La Vida Colorida Del Matator (The Colourful Life of A Matador)

L.v.Beethoven: 1. Allegro con brio. String Trio Op.3. Transcription for piano. Reproduced by VV from a slightly 're-read' reading/seq. of H.Fesefeldt (1942-2019) c.2010, using on its recording a modeled Blüthner grand, revoiced, reconfigured, and the rec.setup made by VV.
Photo by VV (- the score seen on my music stand not related to this track...👀🤔)
Any kind of commercial use of this track is prohohited.

Beethoven: 1. Allegro con brio. String Trio Op.3. Transcription for piano

Beethoven: 1. Allegro con brio. String Trio Op.3. Transcribed for piano

Remix and Re-engineer Of a track written by me about one of my favourite Christmas Films

Nightmare Before Christmas 2023

Recorded with Handy - with Schimmel Piano

Heaven Bells

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.

Beethoven: 1. Allegro con brio. String Trio Op.3. Transcribed for piano

Veikko Viljanen

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