Excellent and beautiful music by a great master, and a delicious arrangement by you, Veikko. My warmest congratulations!

Yes, I like this too. But my comment was meant for your latest track, haha!

What a joy to listen to such beautiful music! The arrangement for two pianos is very convincing, well done!

My favourite composer, and a joy to hear this played so beautifully.

Brilliant. Thank you for sharing your transcription and performance. Beautiful work Veikko

Nicht alle Komponisten glauben an Gott, aber alle glauben an Bach.

Composed, arranged, performed and produced by:
Leon Pajer

orlando51music © 2022

Last Day Of Eternity

I have again an immense pleasure to share with you another piece by my good friend Jean-Pierre Dubois (JiPé )....

The title of Senar is related to the names of Sergei and Natalia Rachmaninoff, and the art picture shows their villa which was constructed in 1929 at Hertenstein, located in the municipality of Weggis (LU) on Lake Lucerne, Switzerland.

I hope you will enjoy listening and like my interpretation of this beautiful piece...

Senar by Jean-Pierre Dubois (Performed by Liz Dicker)

Initiation - Partie 1

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Recorded, mixed and mastered at NOOX Studio, London

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Bach/Siloti

01 Bach/Siloti (for Piano Day 2023)

J.S.Bach: Concerto in D Minor for two violins BWV1043: I-III. Transcribed for two pianos, reproduced and  recorded  by VV June 23, 2023 after sequence made by Harm Fesefeldt (1942-2019)in 2015, on playback of edited and revised version, on a pair of modeled Blüthner Model 1 Grand pianos, revoiced, reconfigured, as well as the rec. setup made by VV.
Any kind of commercial use of this track is prohibited.
Photo: JSB statue at Leipzig Domkirche.

J.S.Bach: Concerto in D Minor BwWV043 - Transcribed for two pianos by VViljanen, June 2023

J.S.Bach: Concerto in D Minor BWV 1043: I-III. Transcribed for two pianos by VViljanen, June 2023

Moonlit Echoes:  Solos

Moonlit Echoes (Piano Version)

a short piano thing that I recently added a trombone melody to. another work in progress, until a new idea pops up to improve it...

Random note (I think this only applies if viewing on mobile device)… in the image, I made our hero face left so as the track progresses it looks like she’s pushing that rock uphill. You go girl!

Thanks for listening!

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Gonna Get There In The End (ft piano & trombone)

Always so lovely to sing on Sander’s gorgeous music to create a new track together under our joint name Passion Arcade.  We hope you enjoy! Annie and Sander. 😊❤️🎶🎤🎵🎼🎹❤️ @wane-of-summer for more lovely music. 😊❤️

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NO HESITATION (Passion Arcade)

Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanish legend about a libertine. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the National Theater (of Bohemia), now called the Estates Theatre, on 29 October 1787.

Madamina, il catalogo è questo" (also known as the Catalogue Aria) is a bass catalogue aria,  sung by Don Giovanni's servant Leporello.
Here transcribed for baritone.

piano accompaniment: Helen Roberts
baritone: Robert Llewellyn

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Lyrics:

Madamina, il catalogo è questo
Delle belle che amò il padron mio;
un catalogo egli è che ho fatt'io;
Osservate, leggete con me.

In Italia seicento e quaranta;
In Alemagna duecento e trentuna;
Cento in Francia, in Turchia novantuna;
Ma in Ispagna son già mille e tre.

V'han fra queste contadine,
Cameriere, cittadine,
V'han contesse, baronesse,
Marchesane, principesse.
E v'han donne d'ogni grado,
D'ogni forma, d'ogni età.

Nella bionda egli ha l'usanza
Di lodar la gentilezza,
Nella bruna la costanza,
Nella bianca la dolcezza.

Vuol d'inverno la grassotta,
Vuol d'estate la magrotta;
È la grande maestosa,
La piccina è ognor vezzosa.

Delle vecchie fa conquista
Pel piacer di porle in lista;
Sua passion predominante
È la giovin principiante.

Non si picca – se sia ricca,
Se sia brutta, se sia bella;
Purché porti la gonnella,
Voi sapete quel che fa.

English:

My dear lady, this is the list
Of the beauties my master has loved,
A list which I have compiled.
Observe, read along with me.

In Italy, six hundred and forty;
In Germany, two hundred and thirty-one;
A hundred in France; in Turkey, ninety-one;
But in Spain already one thousand and three.

Among these are peasant girls,
Maidservants, city girls,
Countesses, baronesses,
Marchionesses, princesses,
Women of every rank,
Every shape, every age.

With blondes it is his habit
To praise their kindness;
In brunettes, their faithfulness;
In the white-haired, their sweetness.

In winter he likes fat ones.
In summer he likes thin ones.
He calls the tall ones majestic.
The little ones are always charming.

He seduces the old ones
For the pleasure of adding to the list.
His greatest favourite
Is the young beginner.

It doesn't matter if she's rich,
Ugly or beautiful;
If she wears a skirt,
You know what he does.

Madamina, Il Catalogo È Questo (Don Giovanni - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

Dipping into the archives for this one, but one of my personal favorites when I played with gifted violinist Julie Evans many years ago. It came out of an improv session where we would brainstorm musical ideas and then refine the ones we liked.  The transfer from cassette tape worked pretty well with not a lot of hiss or tape flutter.  
I've come to understand that joy and melancholy are more soul mates than opposites, both being able to bring tears at a moment's notice.  The "joy of being" in all its complexity and simplicity is a paradox to be celebrated.

Joie De Vivre (Julie Evans; violin, David; acoustic guitar, bass, shaker

iyaz- replay (lovely piano)

My warmest thanks to everyone stopping by for listening to my tracks, the most of the representing a  'REVIEW   OF THE PAST TIME PIANISTS' INTERPRETATIONS ON THE HISTORICAL PIANO ROLLS, and in addition to them, also to a minor but growing  LISTS 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.

J.S.Bach: Concerto in D Minor BWV 1043: I-III. Transcribed for two pianos by VViljanen, June 2023

Veikko Viljanen

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