Nocturne On The Roll and Beyond Revisited

Chopin Nocturne Op. 9 No 2 played by Ethel Leginska 1926 on piano roll Aeolian #70750. The roll converted into a digital form by Dave Kerr 2006. Recorded in 2015 ..and the rec updated** & re-uploaded 14 Mar 2018 by VViljanen (by permission)from playback of the digitally simulated reconstructed original reproducing piano roll, using on its rec. a modeled Grand Blüthner revoiced, reconfigured and the rec. setup made by VV.
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Photo: Ethel Leginska 1886-1970, was a British pianist, composer, conductor and music educator. She was a student of Theodor Leschetizky, later studying composition with Rubin Goldmark and Ernest Bloch, and conducting with Eugene Goossens, Robert Heger and Gennaro Papi.[1] Among her students were harpsichordist Gavin Williamson, James Henry Fields, Daniel Pollack and Bruce Sutherland.[2] She was a pioneer of women's opportunity in music performance and conducting,[3] being the first woman to conduct many of the world's leading orchestras. (source: Wikipedia)
The basic info* of the original reproducing piano roll:
NQCTURNE, Op. 9, No. 2 in E-flat
Roll Number: 7075, 70750
Composer/Creator: Chopin
Pianist: Leginska
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: November, 1926
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.50
*source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)
**tempo here is 0.97 x that indicated on the digital copy of the roll

Frédèric Chopin: Nocturne op. 9 no 2 in E Flat. Ethel Leginska in 1926, on Aeolian 70750

Arthur Rubinstein Plays in 1922 Chopin Nocturne  Op.15 No.2 F# on Duo-Art No.6162. Recorded 2016, and the rec updated, by VV /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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Basic info* of the original piano roll:
NOCTURNE, Op. 15, No. 2 in F-sharp
Roll Number: 6162, 6162-4
Composer/Creator: Chopin
Pianist: Rubinstein
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: July, 1919
Category: classical
Original Price: $3.00 (Price after 1922)
*source: from The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Frédèric Chopin: Nocturne in F#  Op. 15 No. 2. Arthur Rubinstein in 1922, on Duo-Art 6162

Clarence Adler plays in 1916 Leybach: Nocturne Op.52, on Ampico piano roll 5828.
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: Ignace Leybach (1817-1891)
Basic info of the original piano roll:
FIFTH NOCTURNE, Op. 52
Roll Number: 5828, 58286
Composer/Creator: Leybach
Pianist: Adler
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: November, 1916
Category: classical
Original Price: $1.50 (Price after 1922)

Leybach: Nocturne Op.52, Clarence Adler in 1916, on Ampico piano roll  5828

Benno Moiseiwitsch plays in 1927 Chopin Nocturne Op.72 No.1, on Ampico Roll 67143.
Re-recorded in 2016 by VViljanen (by permission)from reconstructed digitally simulated   original reproducing piano roll with a modelled Bluethner grand, tone/sound modified/redesigned by VV.
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Photo: Benno Moiseiwitsch 1890-1963
Basic info of the original piano roll:

Frédèric Chopin: Nocturne Op.72 No 1. Benno Moiseiwitsch 1927 on Ampico 67143

Ignace Paderewski plays in 1922 his Nocturne Op.16 No.4, on Duo-Art roll 6562.
Recorded in 2016 and the rec updated 13 May 2017 by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
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Photo: Ignace Paderewski 1860-1941
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
NOCTURNE, Op. 16, No. 4 in B-flat
Roll Number: 6562, 6562-6
Composer/Creator: Paderewski
Pianist: Paderewski
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: November, 1922
Category: classical
Original Price: $3.50 (Price after 1922)
*source: The Pano Player Group web page (by permission)

Paderewski: Nocturne Op. 16 No 4. Ignace Paderewski 1922 on Duo-Art 6562

Julius Chaloff in 1927 Debussy: Nocturne In D Flat, On Ampico Roll 68133.
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: Julius Chaloff 1892-1979.
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
NOCTURNE D flat
Roll Number: 68133, 68133H
Composer/Creator: Debussy
Pianist: Chaloff
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: October, 1927
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.00
*source: from The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Claude Debussy: Nocturne In D Flat. Julius Chaloff in 1927, on Ampico 68133

Alexander Brailowsky plays Chopin: Nocturne in Eb Major Op. 9 No 2  on Ampico 64023.
Recorded in 2016 and 29 Apr, 2018,  by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll with virtual Grand Bluethner Model One, tone/sound modified/re-designed by VV.
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Photo: Alexander Brailowsky 1896-1976.
Basic info of the original piano roll:
NOCTURNE Op. 9, No. 2, E flat major
Roll Number: 64023, 64023H
Composer/Creator: Chopin
Pianist: Brailowsky
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: February, 1925
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.00

Frédèric Chopin: Nocturne Op. 9 No 2. Alexander Brailowsky 1925 on Ampico 64023

Ignaz Friedman plays Chopin: Nocturne in B Op.62 No 1, in 1921 on Duo-Art 6443.
Recorded in 2017 and Mar 16, 2018, by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
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Photo: Ignaz Friedman: 1882-1949
The basic info of the original piano roll:
NOCTURNE, Op. 62, No. 1 in B
Roll Number: 6443, 6443-4
Composer/Creator: Chopin
Pianist: Friedman
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: June, 1921
Category: classical
Original Price: $3.00 (Price after 1922)
*Source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Chopin: Nocturne in B Op. 62 No 1. Ignaz Friedman 1921 on Duo-Art 6443

Josef Lhévinne plays Franz Liszt: Liebestraum (Nocturne No.3), in 1928 on Ampico 68653.
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.
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Photo: Josef Lhévinne 1874-1944
The basic info of the original piano roll:
LIEBESTRAUM (LOVE'S DREAM) Nocturne No. 3, A flat
Roll Number: 68653, 68653H
Composer/Creator: Liszt
Pianist: Lhevinne
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: March, 1928
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.00

Franz Liszt: Liebestraum (Nocturne No.3), Josef Lhévinne in 1928, on Ampico 68653

Chopin: Nocturne Op. 15 No 1 F. Margaret Wit In 1923,on DuoArt064.
 Recorded 1 May 2017 by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
Photo: Frédéric Chopin 
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Basic info* of the original piano roll:
NOCTURNE, Op. 15, No. 1 in F
Roll Number: 064, 064
Composer/Creator: Chopin
Pianist: Wit
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: UK
Date: by September, 1923
Category: classical
Original Price: n/a
*source: The Pianp Player Group web page

Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne Op. 15 No 1 F. Margaret Wit In 1923, on Duo-Art 064

Nieman: Night In Seville Op.55 No.2. Guiomar Novaes in 1928, on Duo-Art 72510.
Recorded** 8 May 2017 by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
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Photo: Guiomar Novaes 1894-1979
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
NIGHT IN SEVILLE (Spanish Dance-Song), Op. 55, No. 2
Roll Number: 7251, 72510
Composer/Creator: Niemann
Pianist: Novaes
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: September, 1928
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.50
*source: The Piano Player Group web page
**tempo here  = 0.8 x the tempo on the digitized original roll copy

Nieman: Night In Seville Op.55 No.2. Guiomar Novaes in 1928, on Duo-Art 72510

Schumann: Nachtstück (Nocturne) Op.23 No.4. Guiomar Novaes in 1921, on Duo-Art 6488.
Recorded 8 May 2017 by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
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Photo: Guiomar Novaes 1894-1979
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
NACHSTUCK, Op. 23, No. 4 in F from "Four Nocturnes"
Roll Number: 6488, 6488-3
Composer/Creator: Schumann
Pianist: Novaes
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: December, 1921
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.75 (Price after 1922)
*source: The Piano Player Group web page

Schumann: Nachtstück (Nocturne) Op. 23 No 4. Guiomar Novaes in 1921, on Duo-Art 6488

Debussy Nocturne In D Flat Major. Noel Gallon in 1926 on DuoArt 0242.
Recorded 9 May 2017, and 23 Mar 2018, by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
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Photo: Noël Gallon(1891-1961)was a French composer and music educator. His compositional output includes several choral works and vocal art songs, 10 preludes, a Toccata for piano, a Sonata for flute and bassoon, a Fantasy for piano and orchestra, an Orchestral Suite, and the lyrical drama Paysans et Soldats (1911).
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
NOCTURNE, in D-flat
Roll Number: 0242, 0242
Composer/Creator: Debussy
Pianist: Gallon
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: UK
Date: December, 1926
Category: classical
Original Price: n/a
*source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Claude Debussy: Nocturne in D Flat Major. Noel Gallon 1926 on Duo-Art 0242

Scriabin: Nocturne for LH. Alexander Lambert in 1917, on Ampico 58659.
Recorded 9 May 2017 by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
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Photo: Alexander Scriabin 1872 - 1915
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
NOCTURNE, in D-flat

Scriabin: Nocturne for LH. Alexander Lambert in 1917, on Ampico 58659

Leybach: Nocturne N0 4 'My Solitudes' Op 36 No 1. Genevieve Pitot in 1928, on Duo-Art 7230.
Recorded 9 May 2017, and again Dec 11, 2023, by VViljanen (by permission)from the ddigitally simulated original reproducing piano roll.
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Photo: Genvieve Pitot 1901-1980,  was born in New Orleans, Louisiana,  a descendant of the second mayor of New Orleans, James Pitot (1761-1831). She was trained in Paris as a classical pianist, and was married to Joseph P. Sullivan of New York City. She began her association with dance and the musical theater in the 1930s, when she played for classes taught by Martha Graham and other leading American modern dance choreographers. Genevieve Pitot had a long and successful career and was known for arranging and composing music for dance sequences in Broadway musicals such as "Kiss Me, Kate," "Call Me Madam," "Can-Can," "Silk Stockings," "Destry Rides Again," "Milk and Honey," "Shangri La" and "Li'l Abner." She died in New Orleans, October 4, 1980.

Basic info* of the original piano roll:
MY SOLITUDES (Fourth Nocturne), Op. 36, No. 1
Roll Number: 7230, 72308
Composer/Creator: Leybach
Pianist: Pitot
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: April, 1928
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.00
*source: The Piano Player Group web page

Leybach: Nocturne No. 4 'My Solitudes' Op 36 -1. Genevieve Pitot 1928 on Duo-Art 7230

Brassin: Nocturne 'Au clair de la lune' Op. 17. Alexander Lambert in 1922, on Duo-Art 6552.
Recorded 9 May 2017 by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
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Photo: Alexander Lambert in 1916. He was born on November 1, 1863 in Warsaw, Poland to Henry Lambert. He died on December 31, 1929 in Manhattan, New York City when he was struck and killed by a taxicab. 
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
BY MOONLIGHT (Au Clair de la Lune), Nocturne, Op. 17
Roll Number: 6552, 65528
Composer/Creator: Brassin
Pianist: Lambert
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: September, 1922
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.00 (Price after 1922)
*source: The Piano Player Group web page

Brassin: Nocturne 'Au clair de la lune' Op.  17. Alexander Lambert in 1922, on Duo-Art 6552

Tchaikovsky: Nocturne F Major Op.10 No 1. Teresa Carreño on Ampico 54754.
Recorded 9 May 2017 by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll. Rec updated (with a new rec of the same roll) Jan 25, 2019 by VV ONLY FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE,
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Photo: Teresa Carreño in 1916. María Teresa Carreño García de Sena (December 22, 1853 – June 12, 1917) was a Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor.
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
NOCTURNO Op. 10, No. 1, F major
Roll Number: 54754, 54754H
Composer/Creator: Tchaikovsky
Pianist: Carreno
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: n/a
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.00
*source: The Pano Player Group web page (by permission)

Tchaikovsky: Nocturne F Major Op.10 No 1. Teresa Carreño in 1910's on Ampico 54754

Chopin: Nocturne B Major Op. 32 No 1. Sidney Silber in 1925, on Ampico 64833.
Recorded 9 May 2017 by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
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Photo: The label of the original piano roll of this piece
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
NOCTURNE Op. 32, No. 1, B major
Roll Number: 64833, 64833H
Composer/Creator: Chopin
Pianist: Silber
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: August, 1925
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.00
*source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Frédèric Chopin: Nocturne B Major Op. 32 No 1. Sidney Silber in 1925, on Ampico 64833

Frédéric Chopin Nocturne Op. 72 No 1, Benno Moiseiwitsch in 1927 on Ampico 67143.
Recorded 10 May 2017, and 22 Mar 2018, by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
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Photo: Benno Moiseiwitsch (1890-1963)  began his studies at age seven with Dmitry Klimov at the Odessa Music Academy. He won the Anton Rubinstein Prize when he was just nine years old. He studied with Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna from 1904 to 1908, then joined his own family in England, making his English debut at Reading in 1908, his London debut the following year. He toured the United States (first in 1919), Australia, India, Japan, and South America. Moiseiwitsch was invited by Director Josef Hofmann to teach at the Curtis Institute of Music in 1927. He settled in England and took British citizenship in 1937. (cont'd in Wikipedia)
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
NOCTURNE Op. 72, No. 1, E minor
Roll Number: 67143, 67143H
Composer/Creator: Chopin
Pianist: Moiseiwitsch
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: February, 1927
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.00
*cited from The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne E Minor  Op. 72 No 1. Benno Moiseiwitsch 1927 on Ampico 67143

Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne F# Major Op. 15 No 2. Harold Bauer 1920 0n Duo-Art 6308 - Remix by VV.
c Recorded 16 Mar 2018 by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll. 
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Photo: Harold Bauer (1873-1951)in 1904
Basic Info* of the original piano roll:
NOCTURNE, Op. 15, No. 2 in F-sharp
Roll Number: 6308, 6308-6
Composer/Creator: Chopin
Pianist: Bauer
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: July, 1920
Category: classical
Original Price: $3.50 (Price after 1922)
*Roll info source: fro The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne F Sharp Major Op. 15 No 2. Harold Bauer 1920 on Duo-Art 6308. Remix

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..!!.
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Best wishes, all the best
Veikko
These recordings are not commercially available, and ANY KIND OF THEIR COMMERCIAL USE IS PROHIBITED.

Nocturne On The Roll and Beyond Revisited

Veikko Viljanen