Favorite Baroque pieces from the piano rolls and performances found here in SC
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Baroque Era Pearls On The Roll and Beyond Revisited

Live from Chaillol festival. 
Sound Engineer : Ivan Solano.

Johan-Sebastian Bach Passacaglia for organ BWV 582 (Trans. Emile Naoumoff)

Johann Sebastian Bach: "Erbarme dich"

Nicole Pieper, Mezzosoprano 
Ensemble Il Profondo

Anaïs Chen, Violino (solo)
Eva Saladin, Violino 
Sonoko Asabuki, Violino 
German Echeverri Chamorro, Viola 
Amélie Chemin, Violoncello 
Federico Abraham, Contrabasso 
Daniele Caminiti, Arciliuto
Josías Rodríguez Gándara, Tiorba 
Johannes Keller, Clavicembalo

Tonmeister: Johannes J. Wallbrecher 
Aufnahme im Kloster Beinwil, Oktober 2010

Bach: Erbarme dich

J.S.Bach Suite (Partita) C - Moll.  BWV997 - (ca 1740, später transkribiert zu einem Lautenwerk). Reproduced byVV Sep 4, 2023 from a slightly modified sequence of H. Fesefeldt 2015. Recorded from its playback on a modeled Blüthner Model 1  Grand, revoiced, reconfigured,  and the rec. setup made by VV.
Photo: Lake view by VV 2023
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J.S.Bach Suite (Partita) C - Moll.  BWV997.

J.S.Bach: Suite (Partita) c- moll. BWV997 -  (ca 1740)

J.S.Bach: Allegro in Eb Major. Trio Sonata BWV525:-  mvt III. Transcription/reading for two pianos by VV on a reviewed seq. of HFesefeldt. Articulations and tempos  and reproduction by VV on modeled Blüthner grand piano duo, revoiced, reconfigured and the rec. setup made by VV.
Photo: JSB statue detail at Thomaskirche Leipzig.
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J.S.Bach: Allegro in Eb Major. Trio Sonata BWV525:-  mvt III. Transcribed for two pianos.

Bach - Saint-Saens Overture of Cantata BWV29('We thank you, God, we thank you') played by Sidney Silber 1925, on Ampico piano roll #63423A. Scanned and converted into a digital form 2007 by Terry Smythe and Anthony Robinson/Kevin Keymer. Recorded in 2015 (and the rec updated 26 Sep 2017 and Mar2020)  by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitally simulated reconstructed original reproducing piano roll.
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Basic info of the original roll:
OVERTURE, 29TH CANTATA
Roll Number: 63423, 63423H
Composer/Creator: Bach, Saint-Saens
Pianist: Silber
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: August, 1924
Category: classical, popular
Original Price: $2.00
*Info source: The Player Piano  Group web page (by permission)

Bach - Saint-Saens: Overture BWV29. Sidney Silber 1925 on Ampico 63423

Postlude for Annunciation Mass at the Toronto Oratory, 2015

Prelude & Fugue In C Minor JSB

Bach-Gounod:  AveMaria played by Hans Hanke 1921 on Ampico piano roll No 491. Scanned and emulated 2013  into digital form by Warren Trachtman, www.wstco.com.  Recorded by VViljanen in 2016 and the rec updated 19 May 2017 (by permission) from the digitally simulated reconstructed original reproducing piano roll.
Photo: Hans Hanke

Bach - Gounod:  Ave Maria. Played by Hans Hanke in 1921, on Ampico 491.

Artur Schnabel (1882-1951) plays in 1924 J.S. Bach: Italian Concerto I - Allegro, Ampico Piano Roll 62721.  Recorded in 2016, and the rec updated  June 3, 2020 by VViljanen (by permission)from a reconstructed and digitally simulated copy of the original reproducing piano roll with virtual Grand Bluethner Model One, tone/sound modified/re-designed by VV.
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Basic info of the original piano roll in 1924:
ITALIAN CONCERTO Movement. 1 allegro
 
Roll Number: 62721, 62721H
Composer/Creator: Bach
Pianist: Schnabel
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: January, 1924
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.00

J.S. Bach: Italian Concerto - I. Allegro. Artur Schnabel 1924 on Ampico 62721

Percy Grainger plays in Nov.1927  Bach-Liszt: Great Fugue from Fantasia & Fugue Gm BWV542 on Duo-Art Piano Roll 7174.
Recorded in 2016 and July 27, 2023 (rec.update) by VViljanen (by permission)from a reconstructed and digitally simulated  original reproducing piano roll with a modelled Grand Bluethner Model One, tone/sound modified/re-designed by VV.
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The info* of the original reproducing  piano roll:
ORGAN FANTASIA AND FUGUE in G-minor, Part 2: The Fugue (transcribed by Liszt)
Roll Number: 7174, 71740
Composer/Creator: Bach
Pianist: Grainger
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: November, 1927
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.50
*surce: The Player Piano Group web page by permission

J.S.Bach-Liszt: Fugue Gm 'The Great', BWV542. Percy Grainger 1927 on Duo-Art 7174

Harold Samuel (1879-1937) plays in 1925 J.S.Bach: Gigue Bb, from Partita No.1, on Duo-Art piano roll 0216.
Re-recorded in 2016 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.
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Photo: Harold Samuel (1879-1937)
The information on the original piano roll:
GIGUE, in B-flat from "Partitas", Book 1, No. 1
Roll Number: 0216, 0216
Composer/Creator: Bach
Pianist: Samuel
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: UK
Date: January, 1925
Category: classical
Original Price: n/a

Harold Samuel plays in 1925 J.S.Bach: Gigue Bb, from Partita No.1, Duo-Art piano roll 0216

Alexander Siloti plays in 1923 Bach-Szanto-Siloti: Prelude To Cantata 29, Wir Danken Dir, Gott, on Duo-Art 66000
Recorded 25 May 2017  by VViljanen (by permission)from reconstructed and digitally simulated original reproducing Duo-Art piano roll , and the rec updated July 21, 2022 by VV (rec,v.5, using in replay of the roll a modelled Grotrian Royal concert grand. 
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Photo: Alexander Siloti 1863-1945,  pupil of Franz Liszt
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
PRELUDE to Cantata, Wir Danken Dir, Gott (Unto Thee, 0 God) (arrangement by Siloti)
Roll Number: 6600, 66000
Composer/Creator: Bach
Pianist: Siloti
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: February, 1923
Category: popular, salon
Original Price: $2.50
*source: from The Player Piano Group web page (by permission)

Bach-Szanto-Siloti: Prelude to Cantata 'Wir Danken Dir Gott' BWV29. Alexander Siloti 1923 on Duo-Art

Maria Carreras Plays In 1923-24 W.Fr.Bach-Zadora: Organ Concerto Dm, 1-2 parts, on Duo-Art piano rolls 66970 and 67190.
Recorded and combined  in 2017 by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copies of the original reproducing piano rolls with virtual Grand Bluethner Model One, tone/sound modified/re-designed by VV.
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Photo: Maria Carreras Italian-born pianist, popular in the 1910s and 20s, left many recordings on piano rolls.
Info* of the original piano rolls:
1. ORGAN CONCERTO, In D-minor, Part 1 (transcribed by Zadora)
Roll Number: 6697, 66970
Composer/Creator: W. F. Bach
Pianist: Carreras
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: December, 1923 
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.50
2. ORGAN CONCERTO, in D-minor, Part 2 (transcribed by Zadora)
Roll Number: 6719, 67190
Composer/Creator: W. F. Bach
Pianist: Carreras
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: February, 1924
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.50
*Source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

W.F.Bach-Zadora: Organ Concerto in  D Minor. Maria Carreras, piano, 1923-24 on Duo-Art

J.S. Bach: Sarabande, from Partita IV in D BWV828. 
Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1926, on Ampico 66483.
Recorded  25 May 2017, by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
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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
*source: from The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

J.S. Bach: Sarabande, from Partita IV in D BWV828. Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1926, on Ampico 66483

J.S. Bach: French Suite VI, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande.  Harold Samuel in 1926, on Duo-Art 7080-7081.
Recorded 25 May 2017, by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
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Photo: Harold Samuel(1879 – 1937) was a distinguished English pianist and pedagogue. He was one of the first pianists of the twentieth century to focus purely on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, and was known for his academic and cerebral approach. He was also a minor composer.
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
FRENCH SUITE, No. 6 in E, Part 1: Allemande; Courante
Roll Number: 7080, 70809
Composer/Creator: Bach
Pianist: Samuel
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: November, 1926
Category: popular, salon
Original Price: $2.25
FRENCH SUITE, No. 6 in E, Part 2: Sarabande
Roll Number: 7081, 70819
Composer/Creator: Bach
Pianist: Samuel
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: November, 1926
Category: popular, salon
Original Price: $2.25
*source: from The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Bach: French Suite VI, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande. Harold Samuel in 1926, on Duo-Art 7080-7081

Translation: 'We now implore the Holy Spirit'. A chorale prelude by Dietrich Buxtehude, 1637-1707, considered one of the greatest organists of his time, and a composer greatly admired by J.S. Bach and a very strong influence on Bach's organ composition. This performance was recorded 7/25/18 using the Silbermann-Metzler, Arlesheim sample set.

Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist

J.S.Bach-Zadora: Siciliana BWV1031. Leonid Kreutzer 1928 on Duo-Art 0336.
Reproduced from digitally simulated original reconstructed reproducing piano roll Nov 16, 2019, and again Dec 11, 2023, by VViljanen. Keyboard temperament here: 442.
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Basic info of the original piano roll:
SICILIANA (Siciliano) from Sonata (First) in E-flat (transcribed by Zadora)
Roll Number: 0336, 0336
Composer/Creator: Bach
Pianist: Kreutzer
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: UK
Date: by October, 1928
Category: classical
Original Price: n/a
*info source: The Player Piano Group web page (by permission)

J.S.Bach-Zadora: Siciliana BWV1031. Leonid Kreutzer 1928 on Duo-Art 0336

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

Bach - Tausig: Toccata And Fugue D Minor. Willy Rehberg 1909 on Triphonola 51947.
c Recorded* only for educational purposes from digitized piano roll/'ScanImageMDI' by VViljanenJan23, 2019. ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED.
Photo: Willy Rehberg (1863-1937) was a Swiss pianist, composer and music educator.
Rehberg studied at the Zurich Music School with Robert Freund , a pupil of Ignaz Moscheles and Franz Liszt , and at the Leipzig Conservatory , where he then taught piano. In 1890 he went to the Geneva Conservatory and was, inter alia, teacher of Emil Frey . In 1907 he became a teacher at the Dr. med. Hoch's Conservatory in Frankfurt. From 1917 he headed the Max Welcker University of Music and Theater in Mannheim. From 1921 to 1926 he was director of the Conservatory Basel , then he taught until 1933 again in Mannheim.
Rehberg edited piano works by George Frideric Handel , Johann Sebastian Bach , Ludwig van Beethoven , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Max Reger , Jan Ladislav Dussek , Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Carl Reinecke , and arranged Mozart's 9th Piano Concerto (K.271). and Adolf Ruthardt's La Soirée dansante . Willy Rehberg was the father and first teacher of the pianist Walter Rehberg. (Wikipedia)
*The temperament used here: Baroque 'WellTemperament' (Bach-Kellner) with 415Hz diapason (although the roll pianos used for roll recordings might have been tuned into 432-440Hz

Bach - Tausig: Toccata And Fugue D Minor. Willy Rehberg 1909 on Triphonola 51947

Bach - Liszt: Fantasie And Fugue G Minor BWV542. Ernesto Consolo 1913 on Triphonola 53265.
c  Recorded* only for educational purposes from digitized piano roll/'ScanImageMIDI' by VViljanenJan23, 2019. ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED.
Photo: Ernesto Consolo (1864-1931)born September 15, 1864 in London , died March 21, 1931 in Florence , was an Italian pianist .
Consolo was a student of Giovanni Sgambati in Rome and Carl Reinecke in Leipzig . From 1901 he won a name among contemporary piano virtuosos through his refined technique, rhythmic clarity and soundness in the perception. He was living at Lugano in Switzerland , but mostly on concert trips . In 1905 he visited Sweden
*The temperament used here: Baroque 'WellTemperament' (Bach-Kellner) with 415Hz diapason (although the roll pianos used for roll recordings might have been tuned into 432-440Hz

Bach - Liszt: Fantasie And Fugue G Minor BWV542. Ernesto Consolo 1913 on Triphonola 53265

Händel - D'Albert: Chaconne HWV435. Eugen D'Albert 1922 on Triphonola 58440.
c Recorded only for educational and pedagogical purposes from Julian Dyer's reconstructed and digitally simulated original reproducing  piano roll  by VViljanenJan23-28, 2019, and updated May 13, 2020. 
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Photo: Eugen d'Albert (10 April 1864 – 3 March 1932) was a Scottish-born German pianist and composer.
Educated in Britain, d'Albert showed early musical talent and, at the age of seventeen, he won a scholarship to study in Austria. Feeling a kinship with German culture and music, he soon emigrated to Germany, where he studied with Franz Liszt and began a career as a concert pianist. D'Albert repudiated his early training and upbringing in Scotland and considered himself German.
While pursuing his career as a pianist, d'Albert focused increasingly on composing, producing 21 operas and a considerable output of piano, vocal, chamber and orchestral works. His most successful opera was Tiefland, which premiered in Prague in 1903. His successful orchestral works included his cello concerto (1899), a symphony, two string quartets and two piano concertos. In 1907, d'Albert became the director of the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where he exerted a wide influence on musical education in Germany. He also held the post of Kapellmeister to the Court of Weimar.
D'Albert was married six times, including to the pianist-singer Teresa Carreño, and was successively a British, German and Swiss citizen. (Wikipedia)

Händel - D'Albert: Chaconne HWV435. Eugen D'Albert 1922 on Triphonola 58440

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.

Baroque Era Pearls On The Roll and Beyond Revisited

Veikko Viljanen