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Max Reger: Suite im Alten Stil Op.93, and Beyond. Transcribed for two pianos

Moods V

Handful of Keys

Children

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

Apologies to Composers

Updated recordings from digitized original reproducing piano rolls by VViljanen Dec 1, 2018, mainly from the list https://soundcloud.com/veikko-viljanen/sets/etudes-on-the-roll-revisited

Archive Updates

A selection about elapse of time and measuring it....

Clock & Beyond

'Quantized Living' is a jazz Fusion track with various influences.....

Periodically

Quantized Living

Pitkä tie

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother

Delighted to have been asked to contribute to this fantastic Johnny McFarlane song, another in our growing catalog JD, thank you for trusting me with the vocals, arrangement and production, I hope I have done your song justice.  

Debra's beautiful piano completely transformed the tune but then anything that Debra is on is just 100% better.

More of Johnny at @@johnnymc2 and time always well spent @Debra_Buesking

The Road

2022

Winter Spell (Guitar solo)

Piano and Strings musical original composition : @syntaleta
Guitars and Mix : Neno J.

No More (Collab w Syntaleta-remastered)

Merry Christmas wishes, happy new year to all friends of    soundcloud,   Heartfelt thanks
                                          Davide

Natale 2022    🎄 ♪♫•*

Antonio Bazzini: Dance Of The Goblins ( (La Ronde des Lutins), Scherzo fantastique, Op. 25. Transcribed for  2 Pianos, rand eproduced & recorded by VV Oct.29, 2023 on a slightly modified seq., sequenced by Anonymous,
on a modeled Blüthner Model 1 grand, revoiced, reconfigured, and the rec. setup made by VV.

Photo: Antonio Bazzini  (11 March 1818 – 10 February 1897) was an Italian violinist, composer and teacher. As a composer, his most enduring work is his chamber music, which earned him a central place in the Italian instrumental renaissance of the 19th century. However, his success as a composer was overshadowed by his reputation as one of the finest concert violinists of the nineteenth century. He also contributed to a portion of Messa per Rossini, specifically the first section of II. Sequentia, Dies Irae. (Wikipedia)

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Bazzini: Dance Of The Goblins

Antonio Bazzini: Dance Of The Goblins  Transcription for two pianos

Dmitri Shostakovich - Andante aus dem Klavierkonzert Nr.2 F-Dur

It´s  not a  sin  but a  bit sinful -
it´s not heaven  but  heavenly - CHOCOLAT !
The movie by Lasse Hallstrom. Judy Dench, Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp and Alfred Molina are  th major cast.
Bastian Lee Jones loves to interpret Rachel Portman´s vivid and  whitty  piece "Passage of Time".

EARMErecords LC29347, ISRC DE-QB2-15-00007
PHOTO source: Google Search - the © owner is the production company of the movie/the photographer: CHOCOLAT

Passage Of Time (movie: "Chocolat")

all buy & follow links

Rachel Portman - Passage Of Time (movie: "Chocolat")

Digitally recorded in 2015 by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitially simulated original reconstructed reproducing piano roll with modeled Grand Bluethner Model One, tone/sound modified/re-designed by VV.
Photo: J. Lawrence Cook (1899-1976) at the Aeolian Company

Bumble Bee Boogie, arr & played by J.Lawrence Cook

ClassicalSpasm, composed&played by Harry Thomas 1919 on Ampico Piano Roll #57533. Re-recorded in 2015 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.
Photo: Roll piano
Basic info of the original piano roll:
A CLASSICAL SPASM 1-step
Roll Number: 57533, 57533F
Composer/Creator: n/a
Pianist: Thomas
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: n/a
Category: classical, popular
Original Price: $1.50
Notes: Arranged & published by Thomas
*Roll info source: The Player Piano Group web page (by permission)

Harry Thomas: Classical Spasm. Harry Thomas  1919 on Ampico 57533

The title means "Instable balance" in german, and that's what I feel about - the political situation in the U.S. , which are ruled by mad criminals, making friends with Putin, the most dangerous and reckless man in Europe since Hitler... the ignorance of the climate change... the lack of solidarity and cooperation in our societies... the political situation in my own country, which makes it hard (or at least harder) to simply make music. It took several efforts to complete this tune, that is, though, optimistic and uplifting, I think.
There's a video on youtube:  https://youtu.be/yWZhV9RHmB8

Labiles Gleichgewicht

Max Reger: I. Präludium. Allegro commodo (ma non troppo vivace). Mvt 1 of 'Suite im alten Stil' Op.93. - Its orhestral arr.angement transcribed  for two pianos by Veikko Viljanen Mar 21-26, 2025 (...'take' nr.8...) - out of an orchestral arrangement,sequenced  in 2000's. by H.Fesefeldt, and now re-articulated & re-arranged by VV. - A pair of Petrof Mistral 284 modeled grands were used here on its recording, the instruments revoiced, as well as the rec setup made by VV.
Originally composed for violin & piano, pub. year 1906.
The work is in three movements:
I. Präludium. Allegro commodo (non troppo vivace) ( = 96-102)
II. Largo. ( = 48-52)
III. Fuge. Allegro con spirito. (ma non troppo vivace) ( = 88-96)
First Publication	1906 – Leipzig: Lauterbach & Kuhn.
Photo: Max Reger playing piano. - Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger 
(19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher.

Max Reger: Suite im alten Stil Op.93 for v& p. - Transcription for two pianos by VV

Max Reger I. Präludium. All.commodo. Suite im alten Stil Op.93. - Transcr.for two pianos by VV

Max Reger III. Fuge. Mvt3 of Suite im alten Stil Op.93. - Transcribed for two pianos by VV 26-3-2025--v8 - out of an orchestral arrangement.

Max Reger: III. Fuge. Mvt3 of Suite im alten Stil Op.93. - Read & transcr.for two pianos by VV

Max Reger: II. Largo of 'Suite im Alten Stil' Op.93. Reprod. for two pianos by VV 26-3-2025
Read, transcribed & reproduced by  VViljanen for two pianos out of an orchestral arrangement

Max Reger: 2. Largo ofSuite im alten Stil Op.93. Transcr. for two pianos

Max Reger: II. Largo of 'Suite im Alten Stil' Op.93. Reprod. for two pianos by VV 26-3-2025

J.S.Bach: Fugue G minor BWV542 "The Great", mvt 2 of Fantasie und Fuge g-Moll.  Transcribed for two pianos by VV Oct2023 & Mar2025. Reproduced on a pair of modeled Petrof Mistral 284 grandpianos, revoiced & reconfigured by VV, as well as also was made the rec. setup. 
- A score reading with its phrasing, aarticulation, and other interpretation into a sequence by VV in 2015 was now used as source material for this recording. 
Photo: JSB Denkmal detail at Thomaskirche, LeipZig/a view on the Crab Nebula by NASA.
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Fugue G minor BWV542 "The Great".  Transcr. for Pedalflügel

J.S.Bach: Fugue G minor BWV542 "The Great". Transcribed for two pianos

Bach-Zadora: Siciliano BWV1031. Leonid Kreutzer 1928 on Duo-Art 0336.
Reproduced by VV from a digitally simulated reconstructed original reproducing Duo-Art piano roll # 0336. On its playback recording, a Petrof Mistral 284 modeled grand was used, the instrument revoiced & reconfigured by VV, as well as was also done the rec. setup.

Bach-Zadora: Siciliano. BWV1031. Leonid Kreutzer 1928 on Duo-Art 0336

Max Reger: IV.Prestissimo assai. String Quartet G-Minor. Op.54 Nr.1 (IMR201).
Transcribed for 2 pianos by VV Apr.1, 2025.
The work is in four movements:
Movements/Sections	4 movements
1.Allegro agitato
2.Vivace assai
3.Largo mesto
4.Prestissimo assai
A pair of Petrof Mistral 284 modeled grands were used on its recording. The instruments were revoiced by VV, as well as was done the rec setup.
An original score for stringquartet, read & sequenced ca 2010's by H.Fesefeldt (1942-2019, a German nuclear physics researcher& music software developer), iwas used here as source material for this arrangement/transcription by VV.
Photo: A local view by VV.

Max Reger: IV.Prestissimo assai. Streich Quartett G-Moll Op.54 Nr.1. Transcription  for 2 pianos

Max Reger: 4.Prestissimo assai. String Quartet Gm Op.54 Nr.1 (IMR201)-Transcription  for 2 pianos

Max Reger 3.Largo mesto. String quartet G minor. Op.54 Nr.1 (IMR201). 
1900 (first pub.1902)
Transcription for 2 pianos by VV. A score sequence generated by H.Fesefeldt (1942-2019, a German nuclear physics researcher & music software developer) was used here as slightly modified source material for reproducing of it a transcription for two pianos by VV, using on its recording a pair of Petrof Mistral 284 modeled grands, revoiced & reconfigured by VV, as well as was made the rec setup.
Photo: Max Reger (1873-1916)

Max Reger: 3.Largo mesto. String quartet G minor. Op.54 Nr.1 (R201). Transcription for 2 pianos

Max Reger: 3.Largo mesto. String quartet G minor. Op.54 Nr.1 (IMR201). Transcription for 2 pianos

Max Reger: 4.Rondo. Allegro con spirito e vivace 
of  String Quartet No3 D minor. Op.74 (IMR203).
The work was composed in 1903-4, and first published 1904 in Leipzig by Lauterbach & Kuhn . The work is in four parts:
1.Allegro agitato e vivace
2.Scherzo: Vivace - Adagio
3.Andante sostenuto e semplice
4.Finale: Rondo: Allegro con spirito e vivace
- Transcribed & reproduced for two pianos by VViljanen on a sequence generated by H.Fesefeldt of an original score for a string quartet, using now on its slightly beforehand modified (on its articulatins etc) playback recording a pair of Petrof Mistral 284 modeled grands, revoiced & reconfigured by VV, as well as was made the rec.setup.
Photo: Max Reger (1873-1916)

Max Reger: 4.Rondo. All. con spirito e vivace of String quartet n.3 (IMR203). Transcr. for 2 pianos

This was a track I did a while ago and just remembered about. It was supposed to be for a puzzle RPG game but the game director decided it was too happy for the mood of the game. I then went and did a darker rendition which was used and I may upload at some point.

Clock Section (old unused track for video game)

Piano Roll QRS #110425 played by Walter Redding (pseudonym of  J. Lawrence Cook [1899-1976]). Scanned & digitized by Terry Smythe, Kevin Keymer/Richard Stibbons. Re-recorded  from this digitized copy of the original roll by VViljanen 2015 with Bluethner Model One (modified by VV)

Grieg Concerto Fox Trot played by Walter Redding on QRS Piano Roll # 11042S

Handful Of Keys,  composed 1929 by  Thomas 'Fats' Waller, Sequenced and rendered  by  Irwin Schwartz. Recorded Jun2016 by VV from the sequence by permission. 
Commercial use prohibited.

Thomas 'Fats' Waller: Handful Of Keys (1929), rendition by Irwin Schwartz.

'Blue Grass' was issued in October 1928 as DuoArt roll number 0561 in the USA or 0906 in the UK. (It would have been recorded in New York). 
Recorded in 2016 by VViljanen and the rec updated Feb 21, 2023 by VV (by permission)from the digitallysimulated reconstructed original reproducing piano roll , using on its playback and rec a modelled Grand Bluethner, modified by VV.
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Photo: Pauline Alpert
Info of the original piano roll:
BLUE GRASS ("Southern" Fox-Trot Song)
Roll Number: 0561, 0561
Composer/Creator: Henderson
Pianist: Alpert
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: October, 1928
Category: dance, popular, song
Original Price: $1.25 (Avg price (between $0.65 and $2.00))
Notes: With words

Henderson: Blue Grass.  Pauline Alpert 1928 on Duo-Art 0561

(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).
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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

Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli (1882–1949): La Dance d'Olaf Op.33 no 2. Wilhelm Backhaus plays in 1923 on Duo-Art 6667.
Recorded in 2016, and the rec updated** 11 July 2017, by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
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Basic info* of the original piano roll:
La DANSE D'OLAF (Olaf's Dance), Op. 33, No. 2
Roll Number: 6667, 6667-3
Composer/Creator: Pick-Mangiagalli
Pianist: Bachaus
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: October, 1923
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.75
*Roll info source: from The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)
**Updated tempo = 0.7 x that of the digitized roll copy

Pick-Mangiagalli: La Dance d'Olaf Op. 33 no 2. Wilhelm Backhaus in 1923 on Duo-Art 6667

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)
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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

Josef Lhévinne plays César Cui: Causerie (Conversation) Etude Op.40 No.6, in 1925 on Ampico 64273.
Re-recorded Feb 3, 2017 by VViljanen (by permission)from digitally simulated reconstructed original reproducing piano roll, using on its playback a modelled grand, reconfigured, revoiced, redesigned and the mic/rec setup made by VV.
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Photo: César Cui 1835-1918
Josef Lhévinne 1874-1944
The basic info of the original piano roll:
CAUSERIE (CONVERSATION) Etude Op. 40, No. 6, F major
Roll Number: 64273, 64273H
Composer/Creator: Cui
Pianist: Lhevinne
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: April, 1925
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.00
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

César Cui: Causerie, Etude Op. 40 No 6. Josef Lhévinne 1925 on Ampico 64273

A live recording from 2000. Sorry about the bad sound quality.

Enchanted Forest (Robin Hood)

Opening/excerpt  (Robin Hood)

GabrielMarie: Causerie (Conversation), Pauline Haggard 1925 on Duo-Art 6840.
Recorded by VViljanen (by permission) from playback of the digitally simulated reconstructed  original reproducing piano roll. The rec updated Feb 6, 2023 by VV using a modelled Blüthner grand modified and revoiced by VV.
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Photo: Gabriel Marie (1852-1928). Jean Gabriel Prosper Marie (8 January 1852, Paris – 29 August 1928, Puigcerdà, Girona, Spain) was a French romantic composer and conductor.
The basic info of the original piano roll:
CONVERSATION (Salon Piece)
Roll Number: 6840, 68407
Composer/Creator: Marie
Pianist: Haggard
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: February, 1925
Category: popular, salon
Original Price: $1.75
(Source of the roll info: The Piano Player Group web page)

Gabriel Marie: Causerie (Conversation).  Pauline Haggard 1925 on Duo-Art 6840

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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

Rameau - Godowsky: Renaissance No. 6, 'Tambourin'. Nadia Reisenberg in 1925 on Duo-Art 6833.
Recorded 19 July 2017 by VViljanen (by permission) from a digitally simulated reconstructed original reproducing piano roll.
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Photo: Nadia Reisenberg 1904-1983
The Basic info* of the original piano roll:
TAMBOURIN (arrangement by Godowsky in his "Renaissance, Twelve Pieces Of Olden Time")
Roll Number: 6833, 68339
Composer/Creator: Rameau
Pianist: Reisenberg
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: January, 1925
Category: popular, salon
Original Price: $2.25
*Roll info source: The Player piano Group web page (by permission)

Rameau - Godowsky: Renaissance No. 6, 'Tambourin'. Nadia Reisenberg in 1925 on Duo-Art 6833

Schumann-Tausig: El Contrabandista,  Romance Espagnole Op. 85 No 6. Josef Hofmann In 1926 On Duo - Art 7072.
Recorded (updated) 23 Aug 2017 by VViljanen (by permission)from a digitally processed copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
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Photo: Josef Hofmann 1876-1957
The Basic info* of the original piano roll:
El CONTRABANDISTA (The Smuggler), Romance Espagnole (transcribed by Tausig)
Roll Number: 7072, 7072-4
Composer/Creator: Schumann
Pianist: Hofmann
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: November, 1926
Category: popular, salon
Original Price: $3.00
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Schumann-Tausig: El Contrabandista Op. 85 No 6. Josef Hofmann 1926 on Duo-Art 7072

Polla: Dancing Tambourine. Milton Delcamp 1927 on Ampico 68361.
Recorded 21 Nov 2017** by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
Photo: Dancing Tambourine sheet music 
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Basic info* of the original piano roll:
DANCING TAMBOURINE Fox-Trot E flat
Roll Number: 68361, 68361F
Composer/Creator: Ponce, Polla
Pianist: Delcamp
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: November, 1927
Category: dance, popular
Original Price: $1.50
Notes: Assisted
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Polla: Dancing Tambourine. Milton Delcamp 1927 on Ampico 68361

Esa-pekka Kanniainen: Missa in D (2010). Arranged for Violoncello and Organ by E-P.K. and Veikko Viljanen. Rendered and recorded with Garritan Classical Pipe Organ and Garritan Violoncello Oct 2014 & May 2024 by VViljanen.
Published by permission.
Copyright E-P. Kanniainen

The Littoinen Pipe Organ Virtual Studio Most Humbly Presents

Missa in D

E-P. Kanniainen: Missa in D op. 7. Arr. by VV & E-PK. Arr. for Violoncello & Organ by VV 2014.

George L. Cobb: Russian Rag. Max Kortlander 1918 n QRS 100870.
Digitally recorded from the digitized original piano roll by VV 12 Sep 2018. The original piano roll digitized by WSTCo in 2006.
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Photo: Three Roll Piano Legends: Max Kortlander (M), Phil Ohman (L)and  Victor Arden (R)

George L. Cobb: Russian Rag. Max Kortlander 1918 on QRS 100870

Grieg-Fairchild-Carroll: To Spring Fox-Trot. Edgar Fairchild & Adam Carroll 1925 On Ampico 64523.
Recorded from digitized piano roll in Oct 2018 by VViljanen.
Photo: Adam Carroll with his son in 1935
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
TO SPRING Fox-Trot F sharp
Roll Number: 64523, 64523F
Composer/Creator: Grieg
Pianist: Fairchild, Carroll
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: May, 1925
Category: dance, popular
Original Price: $1.50
Notes: Arranged & published by Fairchild & Carroll
*Source of basic info:
The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Grieg-Fairchild-Carroll : To Spring Fox-Trot. Edgar Fairchild & Adam Carroll 1925 On Ampico 64523

Debussy-Ravel: Afternoon of a Faun. George Copeland 1924 on Ampico 56027 - V.435Hz.
Recorded from digitized origibal reproducing piano roll 27 Nov 2018 by VViljanen.
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Photo: George Copeland 1882-1971  .- More of this legendary pianist: http://www.richard-masters.com/pdf/copeland_isadorables.pdf
The basic info** of the original piano roll:
L'APRES MIDI D'UN FAUNE (AFTERNOON OF A FAUN)
Roll Number: 56027, 56027H
Composer/Creator: Debussy
Pianist: Copeland
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: n/a
Category: classical, popular
Original Price: $2.00
**source: from The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)
*Re-arrangement from arr.for 4 hands by Maurice Ravel..?? (comment by VV)

Debussy-Ravel*(?): Afternoon of a Faun. George Copeland 1920's on Ampico 56027 - v.435Hz

J.S.Bach: Sarabande. Partita IV In D BWV828. Sergei Rachmaninoff 1926 on Ampico 66483 - v.415Hz, Werckmeister III.
Recorded** from original digitized reproducing piano roll 12 Dec 2018 by VViljanen.
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Photo: Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943
Basic info of the original piano roll:
SARABANDE D major, Partita No. IV
Roll Number: 66483, 66483H
Composer/Creator: Bach
Pianist: Rachmaninoff
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: September, 1926
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.00
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)
** Recorded with 415Hz  Werckmeister III temperament

J.S.Bach: Sarabande. Partita IV  BWV828. Sergei Rachmaninoff 1926 Ampico 66483

Debussy: La Cathedrale Engloutié. No 10 from Preludes Book I (published in 1910). E. Robert Schmitz in Nov 1927 on Ampico 68293.
Recorded** from digitized original reproducing piano roll 13 Dec 2018 by VViljanen
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Photo: Claude Debussy 1862 - 1918
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
LA CATHEDRALE ENGLOUTIE (THE SUBMERGED CATHEDRAL)
Roll Number: 68293, 68293H
Composer/Creator: Debussy
Pianist: Schmitz
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: November, 1927
Category: classical, popular
Original Price: $2.00
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)
**Werckmeister III temperament used here...even though this isn't Bach... ;-)

Debussy: La Cathédrale Engloutie. Preludes Bk I No 10. E. Robert Schmitz  Nov 1927 on Ampico 68293

Debussy: Prelude. Suite Bergamasque. E.Robert Schmitz 1926 on Ampico 65991.
Recorded** from digitized original reproducing piano roll 13 Dec 2018 by VViljanen-
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Photo: Claude Debussy 1862 - 1918
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
PRELUDE "Suite Bergamasque" F major
Roll Number: 65991, 65991H
Composer/Creator: Debussy
Pianist: Schmitz
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: May, 1926
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.00
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)
**Werckmeister III temperament (with 415Hz) used here...even though this isn't Bach... ;-)

Debussy: Prelude. Suite Bergamasque. E.Robert Schmitz 1926 on Ampico 65991

Hans Zimmer - Requiem for a dream

Study for prepared piano duo and ensemble

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.