"Hei Iskä VASTAA JO!!! -  joku soittaa sulle!!"

Summer Stroll

"A Quiet Room" is played on a Jeff Bamburg FSC guitar. Carpathian Spruce/Macassar Ebony, DADGAD tuning. A short tune which gradually "earned" its title as I made my way through composing this piece. Recorded Feb/2025. Thanks to all who might have a listen to this new track!

A QUIET ROOM

While testing  "Zwobot" (visual software) after an update in Ableton live, I happened to remix some Ableton loops and added a solo while watching .... so: remix + synth* solo blown on Akai EWI USB
This Synth is the very fine "Vital", free Synth, with a patch optimized for breath controller
... and here the video: https://youtu.be/k3wXmpftFRs?si=nBLX5JfE9tqWrKvQ

Here and now 5 // wherever

A 2yr-child voice saying to me about 20 years ago: "Hey Dad, PLEASE, ANSWER NOW!!"👀! ....someone is calling you!!!!"
- Francisco Tárrega: Gran Vals. Read, arranged here  into jazz walz & transcribed & reproduced for two pianos by VViljanen Feb 23-27, 2025. -  An arrangement of the original Tarrega (one-voiced) score by Tony Kime (b. 1947) for two violins, viola and violoncello, was used here as source material.
A pair of Petrof Mistral modeled grands , revoiced & reconfigured y VV, were used on recording, the preset of which also was made by VV.
Photo: Monument of Fransisco Tarrega (1852-1909) in Villareal
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Francisco Tárrega-arr.VV Gran Vals. Transcribed for two pianos

Francisco Tárrega: Gran Vals. Arr. & Transcribed for two pianos by VV

alam de la guitar

your embrace

Beethoven: Allegro con brio. Mvt 1 of String Quintett C Minor Op.104*. Transcr. for Two Pianos Mar 1-3, 2025 by VV.
A score reading into a sequence for the original instrument combo, produced ca 2000's by H.Fesefeldt (1942-2019, a German nuclear physics researcher & music software developer) was used as source material, after reviewing it quite freely on its its articulations, tempos, dynamics,and other interpretational details by VV.
A pair of Petrof Mistral 284 modeled grands, revoiced & reconfigured by VV, were used on its playback-recording after these modifications.
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*About the original work:
The String Quintet in C minor, Op. 104, written by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1817, performed on 10 December 1818, and published in 1819, is an arrangement of the early C minor Piano Trio, Op. 1 No. 3.[1][2] This work is scored for a string quintet with two violas (Wikipedia).
Photo by VV: Sunset hues from the local lake ice cover Feb 20, 2025 Feb

Beethoven: Allegro con brio. Mvt.1 of String Quintett Op.104. Transcribed for Two Pianos

Beethoven: Allegro con brio, mvt 1 of String Quintet in  C Minor Op.104. Transcribed for Two Pianos

86 - Primary places

Progress - Reykjavik

Music can save us

This is the last of the series of four pieces regarding my father. The previous piece ends with the dominant of Gb major, which sets up the start of the lullaby. It is called a lullaby but it is more about letting things just be at rest.

Lullaby (for Viola and Piano)

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 minor LIST 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.

Francisco Tárrega: Gran Vals. Arr. & Transcribed for two pianos by VV

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