Brilliantly played! I also played this during my piano training - love that interpretation @ 1:30 where the left hand suddenly steps into the foreground

What an incredibly beautiful piece of music, thank you for pointing Czerny to me!

aphel is part of the Додому projekt.

Додому is Ukranian for home, or more precisely going home; what the world wishes for the Ukrainians today.
We are over a hundred musicians from all around the world, and from all backgrounds, who have compiled a selection of music which spans over multiple volumes, in support of the victims of the war in Ukraine.
Support them by downloading Домому here: https://dodomu.bandcamp.com/album/i— one or all of its volumes.
All profits are directed to the Ukrainian Red Cross.
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about the song:
"Aphel" is the point in orbit of the earth where it is farthest from the sun.
It is the moment of returning…  back towards the sun, to humanity and hope.
It´s the turning point.
I´d love to see this also for our world.

artwork by:
Cornelia Greef
visit: https://corneliagreef.de

aphel

A year after my published album, CINEMATIC NATURE was released, I have decided to release a remastered version of the entire album. This is not because I was not happy with the original, but I felt it the sound was a little dark compared to my usual sound, so I aimed to bring it into line with all my other stuff. I also did it as a technical learning exercise.

MOUNTAIN MIST

“Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook,
The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.” ― Hildegard von Bingen

After the Parade

There Lies Sad Fruit

I picture that this desert planet has two stars and the Emerald Sands is an Ocean of dunes out of emerald sand mimicing the beautiful view we have on Earth of a Sunset at the Sea or Ocean. I picture myself on this alien planet at the twin starset making me feel homesick and longing for my loved ones...

Check us out on: https://linktr.ee/legacyofthought

The album: Alien Deserts
Far beyond the reaches of our solar system we've discovered desolate planets covered with nothing but sand.... or maybe they hold more than meets the eye. Enjoy the many discoveries, mysteries and mishaps of Alien Deserts.

An alien ocean planet recently discovered. You dive deep into research and discovery of unknown waters... Experience the beautiful expanse, shallow waters, murky depths and submarine caves of Alien Oceans...

Release date: 10-02-2023 on Legacy of Thought label:

The tracks:
01 Progeny - 1 - Civilizations Under The Sand
02 Ancient Astronaut - The Undiscovered Paradise
03 Sonic Bodhi - The Hungering Vines
04 Time Away - Electric Desert
05 Big Beech - Crystal Moon
06 Sunwarper - Lost In The Static
07 Hellweed - A Thousand Year Cloudburst
08 Ivan Black - Crossing The Black Dunes
09 Tolubai - Echoes Of The Metallic Sands
10 Ancient Astronaut - Floating Gems
11 Andawan - Double Starset At The Emerald Sands
12 Tuuligan - Finding The Beaches Of Emptiness
13 Time Away - Sea Of Extinctions
14 Wane Of Summer - Fatal Morgana

The artwork:
Roberto Sass

Mastering:
Chris Held

Mixed by Myth

Time Away: https://soundcloud.com/timeaway
Roberto Sass: https://soundcloud.com/dj-rubberman
Andawan: https://soundcloud.com/andawan
Ivan Black: https://soundcloud.com/ivan-black
Progeny-1: https://soundcloud.com/progeny-1-617773258
Tuuligan: https://soundcloud.com/tuuligan
Tolubai: https://soundcloud.com/tolubai
Big Beech: https://soundcloud.com/big-beech
Wane of Summer: https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer
Hellweed: https://soundcloud.com/hellweed
Sunwarper: https://soundcloud.com/sunwarper
Ancient Astronaut: https://soundcloud.com/ancientastronaut9
Sonic Bodhi: https://soundcloud.com/sonic-bodhi

Alien Deserts

Double Starset at the Emerald Sands

Double Starset At The Emerald Sands

Happy Piano Day!

Impressionist piece inspired by the experience of free diving--wandering and peaceful with a tinge of anxiety in the back of the mind.

Some musical elements are borrowed from my album "Seven Dreams of the Orb Weaver" https://soundcloud.com/skai-eriksson/sets/seven-dreams-of-the-orb-weaver.

Some inspiration from Debussy may be heard in the shifting tonal center and more overtly with the pentatonic runs.

To convey the irregular undulations of the sea and the uneven activity level of freediving I fully indulged in tempo rubato--I think I ended up with tempo rubato e rotto :-)

-photograph taken by Melissa Lehman.

Freedive

Inspired by the painting "Refuge" by the American realist painter Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009).

Refuge

Carl Czerny: Agilite De La Main Gauche Op 749 No8. Repr. by VV July 4, 2023. Recorded from playback of an edited live midi seguence produced by VViljanen, using on its rec a modelled Blüthner Model 1 grand, revoiced, reconfigured and the rec. setup made by VV.
Photo: Carl Czerny (Feb.21, 1791- July 15, 1857)
Any kind of commercial use of this track is prohibited.

Carl Czerny: Agilite De La Main Gauche Op 749 No8.

Carl Czerny: Agilite De La Main Gauche Op 749 No8

The compositions from opus one, are actually bits and pieces from childhood; tunes I made from 8 to 13, somewhat evolved. Puberty had gotten me interested in other things, leaving the piano untouched for a while, but at age 18, my mother, who had given me the piano, had kept on trying to motivate me to start playing again. So I did.  At age 19, when my mother died (age 44), I was compelled to make themes from childhood into two pieces, that I would play (and have played) at her funeral. All contain themes I knew she'd appreciate, staring down at us.

Images from Childhood: Jeannette (Op.1 No.1)

Following up the past release with Cinematic Sounds (under the Creative Commons License) "Soundtracks Vol.2" is the second part of our releases

All tracks composed, recorded, engineered and produced by Blue Mind (Saman Karbalaei)

Cover art by Sara Hojjati

04 - Memories

Basso Ostinato & The Nightingale - 3 Pieces Op.19 - No.2 & No.3

Basso Ostinato & The Nightingale - 3 Pieces Op.19 - No.2 & No.3 - M K Ciurlionis

One of 13 pieces; 
composed by Volker Freidel/played by Stefanie Maschke; 
available on CD; spotify or youtube :
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWfa4UZ89usPrgybkfVxDvA?app=desktop

"Air" for piano solo

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.

Carl Czerny: Agilite De La Main Gauche Op 749 No8

Veikko Viljanen

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