Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor

Schubert Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944 (Great)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Daniel Binelli, bandoneón
Sir Georg Solti, conductor

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 In F Minor, Op. 36

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Jane Glover, conductor
William Welter, oboe
Paul Jacobs, organ

Mozart Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201

Chopin: The Four Ballades and Beyond

2 Waltzes, Op. posth. 69: No. 2 in B Minor

Recorded live from the "Jefferson's Library" concert on February 9, 2013 in Pittsburgh, PA. With Andrew Appel, harpsichord, and Laura Heimes, soprano.


"The White Cockade," Franz Joseph Haydn

Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

Ravel: Mother Goose

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J.S. Bach: Sonata C-moll f. Violin & Klavier BWV 1017. Transcription for pianoduo / three staves.
 The work is in four movements:
I. Largo - II.Allegro - III.Adagio - IV. Allegro
Reproduced by VViljanen 18-19(rec.upd...) Dec 2023 on/after a  reading/rendition into a seguence by H.Fesefeldt c.2010, using on its recording a modeled pair of Blüthner grands, revoiced, reconfigured, and the rec. setup made by VV

J.S. Bach: Sonata C-moll f. Violin & Klavier BWV 1017. Transcription for piano duo

J.S. Bach: I. Largo - 'Sicilienne' . Sonata Nr.4  c-moll f.v&k. BWV 1017 . Transcr. f. pianoduo

J.S.Bach: Canons I. BWV 1079 (Musical Offering**). Read & reproduced for piano by VV May3, 2024, on a reading into a sequence of H.Fesefeldt (1942-2019) ca.2010 (read by him for  string orchestra).
 A pair of modeled grand pianos , revoiced & reconfigured by VV, were used on its playback for piano.
Photo: JSB Denkmal detail at Domkirche, Leipzig.
Any kind of commercial use of this track is prohibited.
**The Musical Offering (German: Musikalisches Opfer or Das Musikalische Opfer), BWV 1079, is a collection of keyboard canons and fugues and other pieces of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, all based on a single musical theme given to him by Frederick the Great (King Frederick II of Prussia), to whom they are dedicated. They were published in September 1747. The Ricercar a 6, a six-voice fugue which is regarded as the high point of the entire work, was put forward by the musicologist Charles Rosen as the most significant piano composition in history (partly because it is one of the first).[1] This ricercar is also occasionally called the Prussian Fugue, a name used by Bach himself.

J.S.Bach: Canons No 1. BWV 1079. Transcribed for piano

J.S.Bach: Canons I. Musikalisches Opfer. BWV 1079

THE SALON OF SCYLLA AND GLAUCUS
Les Nouveaux Caractères, Sébastien D'Hérin

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/album/id1062849852
Extracts taken from « The Salon of Scylla and Glaucus » – Out on 2015-11-30
Extraits issus de « The Salon of Scylla and Glaucus » – Sortie le 2015-11-30

Production: Fuga Libera
http://www.outhere-music.com/en/labels/fugalibera

LECLAIR: Ouverture III in A Major for Two Violins and Continuo (Grave - Allegro) – from op. 13

Frida

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.

J.S. Bach: I. Largo - 'Sicilienne' . Sonata Nr.4 c-moll f.v&k. BWV 1017 . Transcr. f. pianoduo

Veikko Viljanen

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