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

Albinoni: 12 Concertos, Op. 10 [Disc 2]

Tomasso Albinoni - Violin Concerto In G Major Op. 10 No. 8 II. Largo

فَقَالتْ أيَّا سَيدي وأجعَلْهُ في عُنقي.

(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

 Xixi Zhou (M.M. '12,) student of Hung-Kuan Chen performs excerpts from Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 7 during the 2012 Commencement concert. Recorded live May 19, 2012 in NEC's Jordan Hall, Boston.
For more information: http://necmusic.edu

Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Sonata No 7 in B flat major - Precipitato

Bach 2000 v04CD06 [Teldec 3984

J. S. Bach - Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust BWV 170

Bach 2000 v06CD14 [Teldec 3984

J.S. Bach - Easter Oratorio BWV 249 V. Seele, deine Spezereien

J.S. Bach - Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit BWV 115 II. Ach schläfrige Seele, wie? - Karl Richter

J.S. Bach - Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1 - Karl Richter

J.S. Bach - Höchsterwünschtes Freudenfest, BWV 194 V. Hilf, Gott, dass es uns gelingt

Johann Sebastian Bach. Kirchen-Kantaten, Volume 5: Sonntage nach Trinitatis II

J.S. Bach - Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80 IV. Komm in mein Herzenshaus - Karl Richter

Johann Sebastian Bach. Kirchen-Kantaten, Volume 1: Advent und Weihnachten

J.S. Bach - Ich habe genug, BWV 82 V. Ich freue mich auf meinen Tod - Karl Richter

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.

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

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