Such a treat to listen to this beautiful piece, thank you Veikko…

Bach holds top place in my musical world. Thank you for your careful and beautiful recordings.

Thank you very much for bach. I like his music very much. The music is very clear and pure, like spring water, refreshes the mind and the feelings, cleares and purifies both of them. Thousand thanks, Mr. Bach!

Bachs music is like source water, clear and pure, and good for mind and soul.

Some memories leave scars on the soul, but then you notice - it doesn't hurt anymore.

I invite you to listen to my piano improvisation " it doesn't hurt anymore".
Watch the video version on my Youtube channel https://youtu.be/D4GwfQt9gSY

The sheet music of some of my compositions can be downloaded from my website https://pianoimprovictor.com/ Some new works are available on  https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/victor-birkan-sheet-music/3028943?isPLP=1
Find all my music here: https://linktr.ee/victorbirkan

It Doesn't Hurt Anymore - Improvised Piano Piece

INTERMEZZO MOCKUP

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqdFkYL6vQU

Composed by Ernesto Nazareth in 1910.
Arranged and performed by James Uhart.

Odeon - Nazareth (Piano)

www.cheng2duo.com

Captivating audiences and critics alike, the “brilliant” (The Times, UK) and “truly exhilarating” (The WholeNote, Canada) Cheng² Duo distinguishes itself with its uncompromising musical integrity, undeniable chemistry, and unparalleled communication with its listeners. The brother-and-sister duo is formed by cellist Bryan Cheng—prizewinner of the 2022 Queen Elisabeth Competition and 2021 Concours de Genève — and pianist Silvie Cheng, 2022-23 musician-in-residence of Cecilia Concerts in Halifax.

Named one of CBC Music’s “30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30”, the dynamic Cheng² Duo tours extensively throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and South Africa. Recent and upcoming highlights include Beethoven's Triple Concerto with Symphony Nova Scotia, debut recitals in the Kulturkreis Gasteig series (Munich), Frauenkirche Dresden, Flagey (Brussels), California Center for the Arts, Dame Myra Hess Series (Chicago), Weill Hall (Carnegie Hall), Harvard University, Vancouver Recital Society, Salle Bourgie (Montréal), Walter Hall (Toronto), and Ottawa Chamberfest.

Cheng² Duo has released a trilogy of albums on the German label audite: Russian Legends (2019, a BBC Radio Scotland Album of the Week), Violonchelo del fuego (2018), and Violoncelle français (2016, one of WCRB Classical Radio Boston’s top 8 CDs of 2017). These recordings have received international accolades for their “musical sensitivity”, “taste, sure flair for phrasing, and beauty of sound” (Das Orchester, Germany), “phenomenal virtuosity” (pizzicato Magazine, Luxembourg), and “passionate, invigorating...masterful performances” (MusicWeb International, UK). Their fourth album, featuring commissioned works and original arrangements of folk songs by composers of diverse Asian heritage, will be released in fall 2023.
 

Le public est charmé, et les critiques tout autant : le « brillant » (The Times, RU) et « véritablement enivrant » (The WholeNote, Canada) duo Cheng² se distingue par son intégrité musicale sans faille, sa chimie indéniable et le lien unique qu’il crée avec son auditoire. Ce duo est formé du violoncelliste Bryan Cheng — lauréat du Concours Reine Élisabeth 2022 et du Concours de Genève 2021; et de sa sœur la pianiste Silvie Cheng — musicienne en résidence des Cecilia Concerts à Halifax pour la saison 2022-2023. 

Nommé par CBC Music parmi les « 30 musiciens canadiens de musique classique les plus séduisants de moins de 30 ans », le dynamique duo Cheng² effectue de nombreuses tournées à travers l’Amérique du Nord, l’Europe, l’Asie et l’Afrique du Sud. Parmi les prestations marquantes qu’ils ont récemment livrées et celles à venir, citons le Triple Concerto de Beethoven avec l’orchestre Symphony Nova Scotia, les premiers récitals aux Kulturkreis Gasteig (Munich), et leurs apparitions à Frauenkirche Dresden, Flagey (Bruxelles), au California Center for the Arts, aux Dame Myra Hess Series (Chicago), à Weill Hall (Carnegie Hall), à l’Université Harvard, à la Vancouver Recital Society, à la Salle Bourgie (Montréal), au Walter Hall (Toronto) et au festival Ottawa Chamberfest.

Le duo Cheng² a sorti une trilogie d’albums chez la maison allemande AUDITE : Russian Legends (2019, album de la semaine de la BBC Radio Scotland), Violonchelo del fuego (2018) et Violoncelle français (2016, l’un des huit meilleurs CD de 2017 selon la station WCRB Classical Radio Boston). Ces enregistrements ont été salués un peu partout dans le monde pour la « sensibilité musicale », le « goût, le sens certain du phrasé et la beauté du son » (Das Orchester, Allemagne), la « virtuosité phénoménale » (pizzicato Magazine, Luxembourg) qui s’en dégagent; et pour les « prestations passionnées, revigorantes... magistrales » livrées par le duo (MusicWeb International, Royaume-Uni). Leur quatrième album, qui propose des œuvres de commande et des arrangements originaux de chansons folk de compositeurs d’origines asiatiques diverses, sortira à l’automne 2023.

Cheng² Duo - Modéré

Jordan Rudess plays Ivory 3 German D Live @ NAMM 2023
"State of Grace" by LIquid Tension Experiment
Jordan Rudess: Pianist

Featuring Ivory 3 German D Concert Grand layered with (on-board) Synth Pad.  Performed Saturday April 15, 2023
Live recording direct from Logic running Ivory 3, no additional processing.

Jordan Rudess: "State Of Grace" Live @ NAMM 2023

Composition and performance Alicja Maciejko 08.06.2023
Art: Michal Grzeskowiak

The Moment of Everything

The Melody from Christoph Willibald Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, as transcribed for piano by Italian pianist-composer Giovanni Sgambati.  Recorded by composer-pianist Robert Cunningham on April 29, 2023.  Gluck's opera premiered in 1762, and this Melody comes from the middle section of the Dance of the Blessed Spirits, an instrumental ballet in Act II, where it is set for flute solo with string accompaniment.  Sgambati's beautiful piano transcription was first published more than a century later in 1878.

See also:
Robert Cunningham's YouTube Channel:  www.youtube.com/c/RobertCunninghamsMusic
Robert Cunningham's Fan Page:  www.facebook.com/RobertCunninghamsMusic
Robert Cunningham's Web Page:  www.RobertCunninghamsMusic.com

Gluck-Sgambati, Melody from Orfeo ed Euridice

Recorded live by Gaston Matthijsse 20230610 in Hoge Zwaluwe

Paule Maurice - Tableaux De Provence

For Shorts 54 (ambient - Ish).WAV

J.S.Bach: Präludium und Fuge Es-Dur, WTK Nr 7, BWV852. Reprod.VV July 11, 2023 on seq.by H.Fesefeldt (1942-2019). Recorded by VV fr. playback of the slightly revised sequence, using a modelled Blüthner Model 1 grand, revoiced and reconfigured, and the rec. setup made by VV.
Photo: J.S.B. statue detail at Leipzig  Domkirche.
Any kind of commercial use of this track is prohibited.

J.S.Bach Präludiun Und Fuge Es - Dur, WTK Nr 7, Bwv852. Reprod.VV 2023 on seq.by H.Fesefeldt

J.S.Bach: Präludium und Fuge Es-Dur. WTK Nr 7. BWV852

Nacht Op.8 - No.3

Nacht Op.8 - No.3 - Erkki Gustaf Melartin

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.

J.S.Bach: Präludium und Fuge Es-Dur. WTK Nr 7. BWV852

Veikko Viljanen

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