Classical and popular piano music inspired by The Moon

The Moon On The Roll and Beyond

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")

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

Beethoven: Presto Agitato from Sonata Op.27No.2 "Moonlight" played 1919 by Josef Hofmann On Duo-Art piano roll No 6103: Recorded in 2016. and the re. updated 22 May 2017,  by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll with virtual Grand Bluethner Model One, tone/sound/voicing/mammer mechanics modified/re-designed by VV.
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Photo: Arctic moonlight (VV Jan 22, 2019)
Basic info* of the original piano roll 6918:
*CONCERTO, Op. 11 in E-minor, 3rd Movement: Rondo (Vivace) (arrangement by Hofmann) 
Roll Number: 6918, 6918-6 
Composer/Creator: Chopin 
Pianist: Hofmann
Roll System: Duo-Art 
Country: US 
Date: October, 1925 
Category: classical 
Original Price: $3.50
*source: from The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Beethoven: Sonata 'Moonlight'  Op. 27 No .2 - III. Josef Hofmann in 1919, on Duo-Art 6103

Beethoven: Sonata Op.27-2.Mvt2-3'Moonlight', Josef Lhevinne 1927 on Ampico 67823. Recorded by VV 2016, and the rec updated 22 May 2017 (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll. The rec. updated Feb 10, 2019 by VV.
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Photo: Josef Lhevinne 1874 - 1944
Basic info* of the original reproducing piano roll:
SONATA Op. 27, No. 2, C sharp minor "Moonlight": Movement. 2 allegretto; Movement. 3 presto agitato
Roll Number: 67283, 67283H
Composer/Creator: Beethoven
Pianist: Lhevinne
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: March, 1927
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.00
*from The Player Piano Group web page (by permission)

Beethoven: Sonata 'Moonlight' Op. 27 no 2, II-III. Josef Lhevinne in 1927 on Ampico 67823

George Copeland plays Debussy: Clair de Lune, in 1915 on Duo-Art piano roll  5685.
Recorded in 2016, and 22 JuAug2022 (rec. upd.), by VViljanen (by permission)from a reconstructed and digitally simulated original reproducing piano roll, using on its replay a modelled Bechstein grand, reconfigured and setup by VV.
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Photo: Clair de Lune by VViljanen 9-2015.
The info* of the original piano roll:
CLAIR DE LUNE (By the Light Of the Moon) from "Suite Bergamasque", No. 3
Roll Number: 5685, 56859
Composer/Creator: Debussy
Pianist: Copeland
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: October, 1915
Category: popular, salon
Original Price: $2.25 (Price after 1922)
*source: from The Piano Player Group web page

Claude Debussy: Clair de Lune. George Copeland Oct 1915 on Duo-Art 5685

Myers Moonlight On The Ganges. Vicent Lopez on Ampico  208161.
Recorded in 2016 by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll. Rec updated with a new rec Jan 21, 2019
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Photo: Moonlight Over The Ganges sheet music cover page (1926)
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
MOONLIGHT ON THE GANGES ("oriental" Fox-Trot Song)
Roll Number: 713282, 713282
Composer/Creator: Myers
Pianist: Rich
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: November, 1926
Category: dance, popular, song
Original Price: $1.25
Notes: With words
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Myers: Moonlight On The Ganges, Vicent Lopez 1926 on Ampico 208161

Jeremy Lawrence* plays Moonlight Serenade Etc, Ampico Piano Roll 216513.(*pseudonym of Frank Milne).
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/re-designed by VV. Rec updated Jan 21, 2019 (...the day of Moon Eclipse in Finland...)
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Photo: Glenn Miller*** (1904-1944) By Unknown - Ad on page 27 of May 16, 1942 Billboard magazine, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43240691
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
MOONLIGHT SERENADE Miller; RUNNING THROUGH MY MIND Kenny-Kenny; A MAN AND HIS DREAM Monaco; MOON LOVE David-Davis-Kostelanetz Fox-Trot
Roll Number: 216513, 216513
Composer/Creator: n/a
Pianist: Lawrence
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: Fall 1939
Category: dance, popular, salon, song
Original Price: n/a
Notes: With words
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)
**Jeremy Lawrence was one of the many pseudonyms used by Frank Milne
*** Glenn Miller was an American big-band trombonist, arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was the best-selling recording artist from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best-known big bands. Miller's recordings include "In the Mood", "Moonlight Serenade", "Pennsylvania 6-5000", "Chattanooga Choo Choo", "A String of Pearls", "At Last", "(I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo", "American Patrol", "Tuxedo Junction", "Elmer's Tune", and "Little Brown Jug".  In just four years Glenn Miller scored 17 number-one records and 59 top ten hits—more than Elvis Presley (38 top 10s) and the Beatles (33 top 10s) did in their careers. While he was traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, Miller's aircraft disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel. (Wikipedia)

Miller: Moonlight Serenade Etc. Jeremy Lawrence** 1939 on Ampico 216513

Olga Samaroff plays Claude Debussy: Clair de Lune, in 1910's on Ampico Roll 52305.
Recorded in 2016 by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
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Photo: Olga Samaroff 1880-1948
Basic info of the original piano roll:
CLAIR DE LUNE (MOONLIGHT)
Roll Number: 52305, 52305H
Composer/Creator: Debussy
Pianist: Samaroff
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: n/a
Category: classical, popular
Original Price: $2.00

Debussy: Clair de Lune. Olga Samaroff in 1910's on Ampico 52305

Alexander Lambert plays Louis Brassin: Nocturne by Moonlight, Op.17 (Au Clair De La Lune) 6552.
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: Louis Brassin 1840-1884.
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)

Louis Brassin: Nocturne by Moonlight, Op.17. Alexander Lambert 1922 on Duo-Art  6552

Vincent Scotto: Tango In The Night. Peith & Earl in 1923 on Duo-Art 19135.
Recorded 3 Oct 2017 by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
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Photo: Vincent Scotto 1874-1952, French composer in 1936, left (Getty Images)
Info* of the original piano roll:
A TANGO IN THE NIGHT (Un Tango dans la Nuit) (tango Dance)
Roll Number: 1913, 19135-D
Composer/Creator: Scotto
Pianist: Leith, Earl
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: September, 1923
Category: dance
Original Price: $1.25
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Vincent Scotto: Tango In The Night. Peith & Earl in 1923 on Duo-Art 19135

LarryShay: Get Out And Under The Moon. Frank Milne in 1928 on Duo-Art 0537.
Recorded 7 Sep 2017 by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
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Photo: Larry Shay (1897-1988) sheet music
asic info* of the original piano roll:
GET OUT AND GET UNDER THE MOON (Fox-Trot Song)
Roll Number: 0537, 0537
Composer/Creator: Shay
Pianist: Milne
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: August, 1928
Category: dance, popular, song
Original Price: $1.25 (Avg price (between $0.65 and $2.00))
Notes: With words
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Shay: Get Out And Under The Moon. Frank Milne in 1928 on Duo-Art 0537

Frederic Knight Logan: 'PALE MOON',  Aand Indian Love Song. Robert Armbruster 1923 on Duo-Art 101475.
Recorded from the digitized copy of the original reproducing  piano roll Nov 8, 2018 by VViljanen.
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Photo: Pale Moon sheet music cover page (1920). "Pale Moon" (An Indian Love Song) is a popular song composed by Frederic Knight Logan with lyrics by Jesse G. M. Glick. The song was written in 1920,
and later transcribed and reinvented for violin and piano by Fritz Kreisler
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
PALE MOON (An Indian Love Song) (Song in A-flat)
Roll Number: 10147, 101475
Composer/Creator: Logan
Pianist: Armbruster
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: March, 1923
Category: ballad, song
Original Price: $1.25
Notes: With words
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Logan: 'PALE MOON' and Indian Love Song. Robert Armbruster 1923 on Duo-Art 101475

Gordon B. Iles: Moonlight Over The Lakes. Improvisation. Gordon B. Iles on Duo-Art S8002.
Recorded from digitized original reproducing piano roll 29 Dec 2018.
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Photo: Moon Over The Lake (VV2016)
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
MOONLIGHT OVER THE LAKES (Improvisatlon)
Roll Number: 8002, 8002
Composer/Creator: Iles
Pianist: Iles
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: UK
Date: n/a
Category: popular, salon
Original Price: n/a
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Iles: Moonlight Over The Lakes. Improvisation. Gordon B. Iles on Duo-Art 8002

Kahn&Warren: Me And The Man In The Moon. Pauline Alpert 1929 on Duo-Art 0617.
Recorded from digitized original reproducing piano roll Jan 2, 2019 by VViljanen.
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Photo: Pauline Alpert (on a sheet music album cover page)
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
ME AND THE MAN IN THE MOON (Fox-Trot Song)
Roll Number: 0617, 0617
Composer/Creator: Monaco
Pianist: Milne
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: March, 1929
Category: dance, popular, song
Original Price: $1.25 (Avg price (between $0.65 and $2.00))
Notes: With words
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Kahn&Warren: Me And The Man In The Moon. Pauline Alpert 1929 on Duo-Art 0617

Ernesto Lecuona: Dust On The Moon (Canto Indio). Lavarro & Gomez on Duo-Art 0987.
c Recorded from digitized copy of original reproducing piano roll  by VViljanen Jan 16-17, 2019.
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Photo: 'Dust On The Moon' sheet music cover (1934)
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
DUST ON THE MOON (Canto Indio) (tango-rumba Song)
Roll Number: 0987, 0987
Composer/Creator: Lecuona
Pianist: Lavarro, Gomez
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: November, 1934
Category: song
Original Price: $1.25 (Avg price (between $0.65 and $2.00))
Notes: With words
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Ernesto Lecuona: Dust On The Moon (Canto Indio). Lavarro & Gomez 1934 on Duo-Art 0987

Lerner: Waitin' For The Moon. Adam Carroll 1925 on Ampico  206141.
c  Recorded from digitized copy of original reproducing piano roll by VViljanen Jan 20, 2019.
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Photo:   Waiting for  Full Moon...and for the Moon Eclipse of  tomorrow... (photo by VV, Jan 20, 2019)
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
WAITIN' FOR THE MOON Fox-Trot E flat
Roll Number: 206141, 206141E
Composer/Creator: Lerner
Pianist: Carroll
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: July, 1925
Category: dance, popular, song
Original Price: $1.25
Notes: With words
*Info source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Lerner: Waitin' For The Moon. Adam Carroll 1925 on Ampico  206141

Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata, I Op 27 No 2. Harold Bauer c.1915 on Ampico 50405.
c Recorded only for educational and pedagogical purposes from digitized reproducing piano roll by VViljanen Feb 3, 2019, 
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Photo: Harold Bauer (1873-1950)
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
MOONLIGHT SONATA Op. 27, No. 2, Movement. 1
Roll Number: 50405, 50405J
Composer/Creator: Beethoven
Pianist: Bauer
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: n/a
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.25
*Info source: The Player Piano Group web page (by permission)

Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata Op 27 No 2 - I. Harold Bauer c.1915 on Ampico 50405

Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata Op. 27 No 2  II - III. Harold Bauer c.1915 on Ampico 50337.
c Recorded only for educational and pedagogical purposes from digitized reproducing piano roll by VViljanen Feb 3, 2019, 
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Photo: Harold Bauer (1873-1950) Autobiography cover page
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
MOONLIGHT SONATA Op. 27, No. 2, Movements. 2-3
Roll Number: 50337, 50337M
Composer/Creator: Beethoven
Pianist: Bauer
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: n/a
Category: classical
Original Price: $
*Info source: The Player Piano Group web page (by permission)

Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata Op. 27 No 2  II - III. Harold Bauer c.1915 on Ampico 50337

Amy Beach: The Fairy Of The Fountain. Augusta Schnabel-Tollefsen** on Ampico 54314.
c Recorded for educational and pedagogical purposes by VViljanen Feb 10, 2019, and ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE IS PROHIBITED.
Photo: Amy Beach (1867-1944)was an American composer and pianist of Scottish descent. She was the first successful American female composer to make a name for herself in music. Most of her compositions and performances have been done under the name of Mrs. HHA Beach.
Amy Marcy Cheney was born as a child of a distinguished New England family . She was a prodigy who was said to be able to sing forty songs as a one-year-old. She learned to read herself at the age of three and composed three simple rolls when she was four. She received her first lessons from her mother when she was six, and a year later she gave her first recitals . She played works by Händel , Beethoven , Chopin , as well as her own works. In 1875 her parents moved to Boston, where they were advised to register Amy at a European conservatory. Instead, they chose to have her take classes in Boston, and they first hired Ernst Perabo, and later Carl Baermann. When she was fourteen, Amy got her only official composition training from Junius W. Hill, with whom she studied harmony and counterpoint for a year . Apart from that one year, Amy Beach did not have any lessons and taught herself everything especially by studying classical pieces, such as Bach's Wohltemperiertes Klavier .
In 1883 she made her professional debut in Boston: she played Chopins Rondo in E and Moscheles ' concert in g minor. Shortly thereafter she performed as a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra . After her marriage in 1885 with Dr. Henry Harris Aubrey Beach - a Boston surgeon who was 24 years older than she - agreed to limit her performances to one public recital a year and donate the proceeds to a charitable cause. Responding to the wishes of her husband, she devoted herself to composing. Her first major success was the Mass in E major , in 1892 by the Handel and Haydn Societywas carried out. The well-received execution of this mass led to Beach from then on being counted among America's most important composers. She composed the Jubilate dedicated to the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition . [1]
After her husband died in 1910, she toured Europe as a pianist and she played her own compositions at the concerts. She was determined to acquire a reputation both as a pianist and as a composer. In 1924 she returned to America where she spent most of her time on the MacDowell Colonyin Peterborough (New Hampshire). In 1915 she wrote the "Ten Commandments for Young Composers", which included many of her theses for self-study. Later, Amy Beach moved to New York, where she became the virtual house composer of St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church. She used her status as the most important female composer of America to promote the career of young musicians; she was also at the head of various organizations, such as the Society of American Women Composers, of which she was the first president. Heart failure led to Beach withdrawing in 1940, until her death in 1944.
**Augusta Schnabel-Tollefsen (Augusta Tollefsen, née Schnabel, 1885 - 1955).
Info* of the original piano roll:
LA FES DE LA FONTAINE (THE FAIRY IN THE FOUNTAIN) "Les Reves De Columbine" Op. 65, No. 1
Roll Number: 54314, 54314G
Composer/Creator: Beach
Pianist: Tollefsen
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: n/a
Category: classical
Original Price: $1.75
*Info source: The Player Piano Group web page (by permission)

Amy Beach: La Fée de la fontaine. Augusta Schnabel-Tollefsen 1910's on Ampico 54314

Alphons Czibulka: Intermezzo Op.356 'Love's Dream After The Ball'. Charles G. Spross** 1917 on Duo-Art 5956.
Recorded for educational and pedagogical use from digitized reproducing piano roll by VViljanen Mar 25, 2019**, 
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Photo: Alphons Czibulka, Alfons Czibulka, or Czibulka Alfonz (14 May 1842 – 27 October 1894) was an Austro-Hungarian military bandmaster, composer, pianist, and conductor.
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
LOVE'S DREAM AFTER THE BALL (Intermezzo), Op. 356
Roll Number: 5956, 59567
Composer/Creator: Czibulka
Pianist: Spross
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: December, 1917
Category: classical
Original Price: $1.75 (Price after 1922)
*Roll info source: The Player Piano Group web page (by permission)
**Charles G. Spross (1874-1961) American organist, pianist, and composer. He was trained in piano and composition as a child and later studied composition with Xaver Scharwenka. At age 17 he became organist of St Paul’s, Poughkeepsie, later for eight years at the Second Presbyterian Church of Paterson, New Jersey, and for five years at the Rutgers Presbyterian Church in

A.Czibulka: Intermezzo Op.356 'Love's Dream After The Ball'. Charles G. Spross 1917 on Duo-Art 5956

Nocturne opus 2

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.

The Moon On The Roll and Beyond

Veikko Viljanen