5 reasons for recording on piano rolls | Episode 6 | Season 1: Piano Rolls | Finding Pieces

Описание: In this episode, we explore 5 reasons why pianists would record on piano rolls. In today’s age, recordings are used for all sort of purposes ranging from personal use to educational studies and leisure entertainment, legal evidence, and surveillance. A hundred years ago, piano-roll recordings were a novelty: how did pianists respond to this new-found opportunity, and what were the recordings use for? Join me to find out! Pianists mentioned in this episode include Ferrucio Busoni, Myra Hess, Josef Hofmann, Arthur Loesser, Igor Stravinsky. The episode ends with a Duo-Art audiographic (music & annotations / pictures) roll: D-907, Eugene Goosen’s Kaleidoscope Op. 17 Roll 2: Nos 4-6: March of the Wooden Soldiers; The Rocking Horse; The Punch and Judy Show

I am raising funds towards attendance at academic conferences to promote piano rolls, and will be presenting at the Women at the piano conference in Irvine in less than 2 weeks! Do support me on https://gofund.me/5e36cf12.

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Musical Excerpts:

Ferrucio Busoni [Duo-Art 6928]
Bach-Busoni, Chaconne from Violin Partita in D minor

Myra Hess [Duo-Art 6705; Duo-Art audiographic D-21]
J. Brahms, Rhapsody Op. 119 No. 3

Eugene Goosens [DuoArt audiographic D-907]
E. Goosens, Kaleidoscope Op. 17 Roll 2: Nos 4-6: March of the Wooden Soldiers; The Rocking Horse; The Punch and Judy Show

Milton Suskind and Arthur Loesser [Ampico 58327-H], conducted by Artur Bodanzky
L.v. Beethoven, Symphony No. 5, 1st movement, Allegro con brio

Sources:

Convert currencies from different eras: https://www.historicalstatistics.org/... converter.html
Hupfeld Archives: https://www.archiv.sachsen.de/

Josef Hofmann: ‘Josef Casimir Hofmann in 1916’, by Bain - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress, public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Photographs of piano rolls from the Musical Museum Brentford @MusicalMuseum

Reginald Reynolds’ archive (held by the Player Piano Group: https://playerpianogroup.org.uk/
R. R’s memoirs of pianists and conductors: Hess, Busoni, Hofmann

Robert Croft, Conversations with Igor Stravinsky (Faber & Faber, 2011), 164
‘Signor Busoni, famous pianist and composer’, Aeolian Duo-Art advertisement, The Graphics, Aug 9, 1924, p. 225
‘The World’s Supreme Artists and the Duo-Art’, wall poster at the Musical Museum London
A most useful website about player pianos and player organs: Pianola Institute:
http://www.pianola.org

International women at the piano conference: https://www.womeninglobalmusic.org/wo...