Compelling and Pleasurable A recital from piano rolls by Arthur Friedheim - heard by PATRIC STANDFORD '... a slightly improvisatory interpretation ...'

Capturing the performances of outstanding musicians in the early decades of the last century was as important a technological development as was, almost simultaneously, sound recording. In some ways, many regarded it as far more efficient for whilst it did not capture the colours, it could reproduce with astonishing accuracy the keyboard performance. Stravinsky worked for the Pleyel company in Paris on a six-year contract to produce piano arrangements and even compositions for the player-piano...

FRANZ LISZT

FRYDERYCK CHOPIN

LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK

PIANO