Veikko Viljanen Veikko Viljanen 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. Veikko Viljanen’s popular tracks Kreisler-Rachmaninoff: Liebesleid. Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1923, on Ampico 62103 by Veikko Viljanen published on 2015-03-13T23:44:46Z Andrae Crouch: Blood Will Never Lose Its Power. Adapted for pianoduo by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-04-13T23:12:56Z J.S.Bach: III.All. assai fr. Concerto Am for Three violins, Viola & b.c. BWV1041. Arr. for 3 pianos by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-04-16T12:18:42Z Johannes Brahms: Capriccio in B Minor Op. 76 No 2. Arthur Rubinstein 1923 on Duo-Art 6596 by Veikko Viljanen published on 2018-03-06T15:01:01Z J.S.Bach: Präludium und Fuge Es-Dur. WTK Nr 7. BWV852 by Veikko Viljanen published on 2023-07-10T23:12:56Z Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata F Major Op.5 No 4. Transcription for piano duo by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-02-10T11:14:30Z Rachmaninoff: Elegy Op. 3 No 1. Sergei Rachmaninoff 1928 on Ampico 69253 by Veikko Viljanen published on 2016-11-10T16:54:08Z J.S.Bach: Prelude & Fugue in C# Minor. WTK II Nr.4. BWV873. by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-02-19T10:04:06Z Rachmaninoff: Lilacs Op. 21 No 5. Sergei Rachmaninoff 1923 on Ampico 61761 by Veikko Viljanen published on 2016-11-10T21:44:04Z Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata G Major Op.5 no 5. Transcribed for two pianos by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-02-11T15:40:22Z Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata E minor Op.5 no. 8 for violin & b.c. Transcribed for pianoduo by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-02-18T13:09:06Z J.S.Bach: I.All. moderato. Concerto for 3 Violins, Viola &Cello BWV 1041. Transription for 3 pianos. by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-04-20T01:20:34Z Gluck-Sgambati: Melodie from 'Orfeo ed Euridice'. Sergei Rachmaninoff 1925 on Ampico 64921 by Veikko Viljanen published on 2016-11-10T23:20:07Z J.S.Bach: Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein' Cantus firmus in canto. BWV1080-21 / BWV668a by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-03-31T02:03:36Z Brahms: 'Rain Sonata' Op.78. II.Adagio. Arr. for two pianos by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-03-05T15:55:50Z Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata in D Major Op.5 No.1. Tanscribed for pianoduo by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-02-14T12:49:31Z Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata A Major Op.5 no 6. Transcribed for two pianos by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-02-12T21:41:46Z J.S.Bach: Contrapunctus VI à 4 in Stylo Francese. BWV 1080/6. Arr. for Piano by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-03-14T01:11:48Z Gabriel Faure: Andante from Sonata Op.13 for p&v - mvt 2. Arr. for Pianoduo by VV by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-02-26T18:14:55Z Beethoven: Präludium & Fuge F-dur (Hess 30). Transcribed for pianoduo by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-03-05T23:14:19Z Georg Muffat: Allemande G Major (Armonico Tributo). Trancribed for piano by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-05-01T17:56:46Z Brahms: III. Allegro Molto Moderato, of 'Rain Sonata' Op.78. Transcribed For 2 Pianos by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-03-03T14:50:32Z J.S.Bach: Präludium & Fuge Cis Dur. WTK I -3. BWV848. Reprod.VV2023 on Seq. of H.Fesefeldt (2015). by Veikko Viljanen published on 2023-06-30T21:21:58Z J.S. Bach: Contrapunctus XIX (a,b&c) On The Name of B.A.C.H (BWV 1080 -XIX) by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-03-22T22:57:37Z J.S. Bach: I. Largo - 'Sicilienne' . Sonata Nr.4 c-moll f.v&k. BWV 1017 . Transcr. f. pianoduo by Veikko Viljanen published on 2023-12-18T17:10:52Z Beethoven: Trio Op.11 ''Gassenhauer Trio'. II.Adagio. Transcription for two pianos by Veikko Viljanen published on 2023-11-11T07:50:26Z Brahms: 'Rain Sonata' Op.78. I.Vivace ma non troppo. Arr. for pianoduo by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-03-04T23:49:45Z Godowsky: Study No 4 on Chopin Op.10-2 . v.2 'Ignis Fatuus'. Kasper P. Bach & Pål Eide 1998. RecVV by Veikko Viljanen published on 2023-02-26T16:02:45Z Chopin: Etude Gb Op 25 No 9 'Butterfly'. James Whittaker In 1910's On Ampico 51612 by Veikko Viljanen published on 2017-04-03T09:24:53Z J.S.Bach: Präludium & Fuge C-Dur. WTK I Nr.1. BWV846. Reprod. & rec. by VV on seq of H.Fesefeldt by Veikko Viljanen published on 2023-06-29T12:06:44Z
Kreisler-Rachmaninoff: Liebesleid. Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1923, on Ampico 62103 by Veikko Viljanen published on 2015-03-13T23:44:46Z
Andrae Crouch: Blood Will Never Lose Its Power. Adapted for pianoduo by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-04-13T23:12:56Z
J.S.Bach: III.All. assai fr. Concerto Am for Three violins, Viola & b.c. BWV1041. Arr. for 3 pianos by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-04-16T12:18:42Z
Johannes Brahms: Capriccio in B Minor Op. 76 No 2. Arthur Rubinstein 1923 on Duo-Art 6596 by Veikko Viljanen published on 2018-03-06T15:01:01Z
J.S.Bach: Präludium und Fuge Es-Dur. WTK Nr 7. BWV852 by Veikko Viljanen published on 2023-07-10T23:12:56Z
Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata F Major Op.5 No 4. Transcription for piano duo by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-02-10T11:14:30Z
Rachmaninoff: Elegy Op. 3 No 1. Sergei Rachmaninoff 1928 on Ampico 69253 by Veikko Viljanen published on 2016-11-10T16:54:08Z
J.S.Bach: Prelude & Fugue in C# Minor. WTK II Nr.4. BWV873. by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-02-19T10:04:06Z
Rachmaninoff: Lilacs Op. 21 No 5. Sergei Rachmaninoff 1923 on Ampico 61761 by Veikko Viljanen published on 2016-11-10T21:44:04Z
Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata G Major Op.5 no 5. Transcribed for two pianos by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-02-11T15:40:22Z
Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata E minor Op.5 no. 8 for violin & b.c. Transcribed for pianoduo by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-02-18T13:09:06Z
J.S.Bach: I.All. moderato. Concerto for 3 Violins, Viola &Cello BWV 1041. Transription for 3 pianos. by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-04-20T01:20:34Z
Gluck-Sgambati: Melodie from 'Orfeo ed Euridice'. Sergei Rachmaninoff 1925 on Ampico 64921 by Veikko Viljanen published on 2016-11-10T23:20:07Z
J.S.Bach: Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein' Cantus firmus in canto. BWV1080-21 / BWV668a by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-03-31T02:03:36Z
Brahms: 'Rain Sonata' Op.78. II.Adagio. Arr. for two pianos by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-03-05T15:55:50Z
Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata in D Major Op.5 No.1. Tanscribed for pianoduo by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-02-14T12:49:31Z
Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata A Major Op.5 no 6. Transcribed for two pianos by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-02-12T21:41:46Z
J.S.Bach: Contrapunctus VI à 4 in Stylo Francese. BWV 1080/6. Arr. for Piano by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-03-14T01:11:48Z
Gabriel Faure: Andante from Sonata Op.13 for p&v - mvt 2. Arr. for Pianoduo by VV by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-02-26T18:14:55Z
Beethoven: Präludium & Fuge F-dur (Hess 30). Transcribed for pianoduo by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-03-05T23:14:19Z
Georg Muffat: Allemande G Major (Armonico Tributo). Trancribed for piano by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-05-01T17:56:46Z
Brahms: III. Allegro Molto Moderato, of 'Rain Sonata' Op.78. Transcribed For 2 Pianos by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-03-03T14:50:32Z
J.S.Bach: Präludium & Fuge Cis Dur. WTK I -3. BWV848. Reprod.VV2023 on Seq. of H.Fesefeldt (2015). by Veikko Viljanen published on 2023-06-30T21:21:58Z
J.S. Bach: Contrapunctus XIX (a,b&c) On The Name of B.A.C.H (BWV 1080 -XIX) by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-03-22T22:57:37Z
J.S. Bach: I. Largo - 'Sicilienne' . Sonata Nr.4 c-moll f.v&k. BWV 1017 . Transcr. f. pianoduo by Veikko Viljanen published on 2023-12-18T17:10:52Z
Beethoven: Trio Op.11 ''Gassenhauer Trio'. II.Adagio. Transcription for two pianos by Veikko Viljanen published on 2023-11-11T07:50:26Z
Brahms: 'Rain Sonata' Op.78. I.Vivace ma non troppo. Arr. for pianoduo by Veikko Viljanen published on 2024-03-04T23:49:45Z
Godowsky: Study No 4 on Chopin Op.10-2 . v.2 'Ignis Fatuus'. Kasper P. Bach & Pål Eide 1998. RecVV by Veikko Viljanen published on 2023-02-26T16:02:45Z
Chopin: Etude Gb Op 25 No 9 'Butterfly'. James Whittaker In 1910's On Ampico 51612 by Veikko Viljanen published on 2017-04-03T09:24:53Z
J.S.Bach: Präludium & Fuge C-Dur. WTK I Nr.1. BWV846. Reprod. & rec. by VV on seq of H.Fesefeldt by Veikko Viljanen published on 2023-06-29T12:06:44Z