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The Welte Mignon Mystery Vol. VI

Ernst von Dohnányi

today playing all his 1905 interpretations. Selected works by Schubert, Liszt, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Schumann and Dohnányi

EAN/barcode: 4009850014508

This is not an historical recording. Yet mysteriously the music is performed in an interpretation which is historically authentic down to the last detail. The key to this mystery is: the original performer was present at the recent recording session, but not physically: the music is heard on a modern Steinway. Never has music stored in the Welte-Mignon system sounded so "right" or so well. Thanks to TACET′s much-praised recording technique, and because the Welte-Mignon memory system and sound production mechanism have now been newly adjusted for the first time by the leading expert in the field - and are thus able to meet TACET′s requirements. (Welte-Mignon was invented in 1904.) The Welte-Mignon mystery can now speak to us without distortion.

What is "Welte Mignon"?

Video on the Welte Mignon piano with the expert Hans W. Schmitz

Tracks

Nr.
No.
Werk - Satz
Composition - movement
Oeuvre - mouvement
Komponist
Composer
Compositeur
Künstler
Artist
Interprète
Dauer
Duration
Durée
2 CDs 1
1Sonate a-Moll op. 42 D 8452. Satz: Andante poco mossoFranz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
Ernst von Dohnányi
11:06
2 3. Satz: Scherzo. Allegro vivaceFranz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
Ernst von Dohnányi
5:39
3Consolation Nr. 3 Des-DurFranz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Ernst von Dohnányi
3:53
4Ungarische Rhapsodie Nr. 15 a-MollFranz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Ernst von Dohnányi
5:51
5Fantasie und Fuge über B-A-C-HFranz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Ernst von Dohnányi
11:53
6Ungarische Rhapsodie Nr. 13 a-MollFranz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Ernst von Dohnányi
9:18
7Sonate Nr. 24 op. 78 Fis-Dur1. Satz: Adagio cantabile - Allegro ma non troppo; 2. Satz: Allegro vivaceLudwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Ernst von Dohnányi
10:41
8Soirées de Vienne nach SchubertValse caprice Nr. 4 Des-Dur, Andante à capriccioFranz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Ernst von Dohnányi
5:52
9Klavierstücke op. 76 Br, 2Capriccio h-MollJohannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Ernst von Dohnányi
2:53
10Walzer cis-Moll op. 64 Nr. 2Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Ernst von Dohnányi
3:02
2 CDs 2
1Gavotte und Musette (ohne op., 1898)Ernst von Dohnányi (1877 - 1960)
Ernst von Dohnányi
3:12
2Romanze Fis-Dur op. 28 Nr. 2Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Ernst von Dohnányi
3:56
3Vier Stücke für Klavier (1896/97)Capriccio h-Moll op. 2 Nr. 4Ernst von Dohnányi (1877 - 1960)
Ernst von Dohnányi
6:18

total playing time: 83:38

See reviews for this production

Pianiste (07/01/2011):

LES LEÇONS DU PASSÉ
La magie des Welte-Mignon
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Vous aimeriez entendre Ravel, Debussy, Strauss, Saint-Saëns, Reger jouant sur un piano d'aujourd'hui leurs propres Oeuvres? Et que diriez-vous aussi d'une restitution « parfaite » des interprétations des premiers Horowitz, Fischer, Lhévinne et autres Schnabel? Le label allemand Tacet propose une anthologie des rouleaux gravés par le procédé Welte-Mignon. more...

Pizzicato (10/01/2007):

TECHNOLOGIES ASSOCIEES

La série lancée par la compagnie de disques TACET permet au mélomane du 21e siècle de réaliser un voyage extraordinaire dans le temps et présente, pour ce 6e volume, une collection superbe de pièces pour piano interprétées par l′un des plus grands pianistes hongrois de tous les temps, Ernst von Dohnanyi. more...

Audiophile Audition (06/01/2007):

The Tacet label is trying to make it clear that you′re not going to have to suffer thru the sort of distortion and scratch evidenced by the few early recordings of solo classical piano music made around 1905.
"(...) The note booklet begins with a sidebar headed "This is not an historical recording." Well, the Tacet label is trying to make it clear that you′re not going to have to suffer thru the sort of distortion and scratch evidenced by the few early recordings of solo classical piano music made around 1905. more...