Chopin Heroic Polonaise Op.53 A Flat Major - Played by Valentina Lisitsa

Beethoven Moonlight Sonata Op 27 # 2 Mov 3 Played by Valentina Lisitsa

These are some of my favorite classical piano pieces performed by some of the greatest pianists I've heard, you'll love at least one. 

Chopin Valse Op 64 No 2 Waltz In C Sharp Minor 7 Valentina Lisitsa

W.A.Mozart: Streichquintett D Major  K.593-4. Finale-Allegro.Transcr. for 2 pianos by VV Mar 27, 2025. A pair of Petrof Mistral 284 modeled grands, revoiced & reconfigured by VV were used on its recording, the setup of which made by VV.
Photo by TIEKU.


W.A.Mozart: Streichquintett D-Dur K.593-4. Finale-Allegro.Transcr. for 2 pianos by VV

PPietro Nardini: II. Allegro con fuoco of Violin sonate  n.2 in D Major. 
Transcribed & reproduced  for two pianos by VVijanen Apr.21-28, 2025 (...take 11..👀🤔). 
A pair of Petrof Mistral 284 grands (modeled) were used on recording, the instruments revoiced & reconfigured , as well as  the rec. setup made by VV.
Photo: "Easter view of the local lake" by V.Viljanen 2025

Pietro Nardini: II. Allegro con fuoco of Violin sonate  n.2 D Major. Transcr. for two pianos by VV

Chopin: Waltz in C#minor op.64 no.2

This track is from the album Saint-Saens violin Concerto, Beethoven Triple Concerto and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/allaa

Camille Saint-Saens, violin concerto N.3 in B minor op 61, 3rd m

Avigail Arad Cello
Victor Stanislavsky Piano
Live Performnce in Tel Aviv 2007

Gabriel Fauré Sicilienne Op78

Piano Solo - Minna Liu
Accompaniment - Bian Zhong

Recorded Live: Minna Liu Piano Recital, Oct 2011

Piano Concerto A minor, Op. 16 I. Allegro molto moderato — Edvard Grieg

F. Liszt- Étude No. 3 (G sharp minor) La Campanella
Alina Kiryayeva piano 

F. Liszt- La Campanella

https://www.aleksandramikulska.com​

https://bio.to/aleksandra​

Chopin: Balladen

Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23

Chopin - Ballade No. 1 in G Minor op. 23

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 minor LIST 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.

W.A.Mozart: Streichquintett D-Dur K.593-4. Finale-Allegro.Transcr. for 2 pianos by VV

Veikko Viljanen

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