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Chopin Heroic Polonaise Op.53 A Flat Major - Played by Valentina Lisitsa

Steinway & Sons Model D 274 Concert Grand Piano. Live Piano Recording. Orchestral String from Garritan Instant Orchestra. I hope you love the melancholy theme of this song.

Frédéric Chopin - Waltz In B Minor, Op.69 No.2 (No.10) (Orchestrated Version)

Main Theme of Legend of Grimrock 2 Videogame, developed and published by Almost Human © 2014. 

Composed by Perttu Vänskä, Henri Vartio, Hannu Honkonen. Produced, mixed and mastered by Hannu Honkonen, Henri Vartio, Perttu Vänskä.

Orchestra: Ville Koponen, Jussi Aalto, Petteri Iivonen, Hannes Kaukoranta, Sakari Kekola, Lauri Kilpinen, Matti Koponen, Aleksi Mäkimattila, Jaakko Pulakka, Aleksi Santavuori, Janne Toivonen, Jussi Vuorinen, Juhani Kaasinen, Lauri Kärrylä, Iida Laine. Choir: Anna-Maria, Parkkinen, Alexa Leroux, Pauliina Kupiainen, Jere Martikainen
Petteri Lehikoinen, Ronnie Karlsson

Legend of Grimrock 2 Main Theme

Days repeating

Nuit d'etoiles - Claude Debussy

Chopin: Waltz in C#minor op.64 no.2

© 2017 Taylor Ambrosio Wood

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Made for the video game "Balthazar's Dream" by Psilocybe Games.
Artwork by Sawa Białczyńska-Lipert.

Balthazar's Dream OST | Main Titles

Sergei Rachmaninoff plays in 1925 Gluck-Sgambati: Melodie (Orfeo ed Euridice), Ampico 64921.
Recorded in 2016 (and the rec updated 25 Sep 2017) by VViljanen (by permission)from the optically digitized  copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED. 
Photo: Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
MELODIE D minor
Roll Number: 64921, 64921H
Composer/Creator: Gluck, Sgambati - (Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (1714-1787))
Pianist: Rachmaninoff
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: September, 1925
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.00
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission).

Gluck-Sgambati: Melodie from 'Orfeo ed Euridice'. Sergei Rachmaninoff  1925 on Ampico 64921

Grainger: Children's March 'Over the Hills And Far Away'. Percy Grainger & Lotta Hough 1920 on Duo-Art 6368.
Recorded in 2016, and the rec. updated Nov 24, 2017and Feb 22, 2023 by VViljanen (by permission)from playback of digitally simulated reconstructed original reproducing piano roll, using a modelled Grand Blüthner modified by VVV
Photo: Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED.
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
CHILDREN'S MARCH: Over the Hills And Far Away (arrangement for Two Pianos)
Roll Number: 6368, 6368-5
Composer/Creator: Grainger
Pianist: Grainger, Hough
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: December, 1920
Category: popular, salon
Original Price: $3.25 (Price after 1922)
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Grainger: Children's March, Percy Grainger & Lotta Hough in 1920, on Duo-Art 6368

W.A. Mozart: Pastorale Variée, Herma Menth in 1919, on Duo-Art 6175.
Recorded in 2016, and the rec. updated July 13, 2017,  by VViljanen (by permission)from digitally simulated reconstructed original reproducing piano roll.
ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED.
Photo: The label on the original piano roll.
The information* of the original piano roll:
PASTORALE VARIEE
Roll Number: 6175, 6175
Composer/Creator: Mozart
Pianist: Menth
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: September, 1919
Category: popular, salon
Original Price: n/a
*Roll info source: from The Player Piano  Group web page (by permission)

W.A. Mozart: Pastorale Variée [K2, Anh.209b]. Herma Menth in 1919 on Duo-Art 6175

Franz Liszt: Concert Etude 'Un Sospiro', Frederic Lamond 1924 on Duo-Art 6751.
Re-recorded in 2016 by VViljanen (by permission)from digitally simulated reconstructed original reproducing piano roll with va modelled Grand Blüthner Model One, tone/sound modified/designed by VV.
COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED.
Photo: Frederic Lamond 1868-1948, was a Scottish classical pianist and composer, and the second-last surviving pupil of Franz Liszt.
(..to be continued below...)
The basic info of the original piano roll:
CONCERT ETUDE (Un Sospiro) (A Sigh) (The Poet's Harp), in D-flat from "Grand Concert Etudes", No. 3
Roll Number: 6751, 67510
Composer/Creator: Liszt
Pianist: Lamond
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: May, 1924
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.50
Continued about Frederic Lamond:
Lamond was born in Glasgow, Scotland. After exhausting the resources of his home town, he continued his musical study abroad in Germany under Max Schwarz and Hans von Bülow. He studied with Franz Liszt at Weimar and Rome in 1885, and in London in 1886. In 1886 Lamond also met Johannes Brahms, who coached him in his own works. Lamond also became acquainted with Anton Rubinstein in Germany, hearing him conduct and play many times there, and later in Russia in the 1890s.
In addition to becoming one of the early champions of Brahms' piano works, Lamond was considered the primary authority on Beethoven's piano music before Artur Schnabel, and Breitkopf & Härtel published his edition of the piano sonatas. In 1893 Lamond was invited by Vasily Safonov to Moscow to play Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto in B-flat minor, Op. 23, at the request of the composer. While in Russia, he met Alexander Scriabin, whose Second Sonata, Op. 19, Lamond later played. In the 1920s and '30s, Lamond recorded many works of Beethoven (including an acoustic recording of the "Emperor" Concerto complete under Eugène Goossens, for HMV) and Liszt, as well as a scattered assortment of smaller works by other composers. While not the greatest of technicians by the time of his recordings — reviews from his youth praise his accuracy and bravura in such taxing works as the Brahms Paganini Variations, Op. 35 — his graceful phrasing and singing tone are quite remarkable (Wikipedia)

Franz Liszt: Concert Etude No 3  'Un Sospiro'. Frederic Lamond 1924 on Duo-Art 6751

Henderson Birth Of The Blues, Alan Moran in 1926 on Duo - Art 713286.
Re-recorded in 2017 by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll with virtual Grand Bluethner Model One, tone/sound modified/designed by VV.
COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED. 
Photo: Ray Henderson White Scandals poster
Information on the original piano roll:
The BIRTH OF THE BLUES from "George White's Scandals of 1926" (Fox-Trot Song)
Roll Number: 713286, 713286
Composer/Creator: Henderson
Pianist: Moran
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: November, 1926
Category: dance, popular, song
Original Price: $1.25
Notes: With words
(Source of the original roll summary: The Piano Player Group web-page)

Ray Henderson: Birth Of The Blues [White's Scandals of 1926]. Alan Moran in 1926, on Duo-Art 713286

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My attempt at this challenging piano piece by Chopin! By no means perfect, but I hope you enjoy this anyway! :)

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Originally practised for the <a href="http://soundcloud.com/groups/classical-challenge/tracks">Classical Challenge</a> (Fantasie Impromptu Challenge) created by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/the-awakened-soul">Apo Malo</a>  in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/pianocloud/">The Piano Cloud</a> Facebook group that is hosted by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/keyquest-music">Andrew Eales</a> (Wow that was a mouth full!) :P

Performed on my Roland FP-7F digital piano
Recorded using Audacity

Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu - Luke Freeman

Frederic Chopin: Ballade No. 1, Op. 23

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Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23

Chopin - Ballade No. 1 in G Minor op. 23

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.

Franz Liszt: Concert Etude No 3 'Un Sospiro'. Frederic Lamond 1924 on Duo-Art 6751

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