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Le Magazine Pianiste

0140-0 CD

The Welte Mignon Mystery Vol. IV

Dead or Alive

Frédéric Chopin
Études op. 10, op. 25
Horowitz, Lhévinne, Ney, Pachmann, Paderewski, Schnabel, Serkin and others today playing their 1904-1928 interpretations and in addition Peter Orth playing today

EAN/barcode: 4009850014003

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 - so unadulterated that it need not fear comparison with a living pianist! Can you tell the difference: dead or alive?

What is "Welte Mignon"?

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

Tracks

Nr.
No.
N°		 Werk - Satz
Composition - movement
Oeuvre - mouvement		 Komponist
Composer
Compositeur		 Künstler
Artist
Interprète		 Dauer
Duration
Durée
1Études op. 10op. 10/1Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Peter Orth
2:24
2 op. 10/2Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Peter Orth
1:43
3 op. 10/3Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Ignace Jan Paderewski
5:12
4 op. 10/4Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Rudolf Serkin
2:00
5 op. 10/5Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Artur Schnabel
1:43
6 op. 10/6Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Rudolf Ganz
3:43
7 op. 10/7Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Annette Essipoff
1:40
8 op. 10/8Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Vladimir Horowitz
2:26
9 op. 10/9Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Peter Orth
2:21
10 op. 10/10Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Ernest Schelling
2:33
11 op. 10/11Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Télémaque Lambrino
2:58
12 op. 10/12Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Gottfried Galston
2:41
13Études op. 25op. 25/1Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Aurelia Cionca
3:16
14 op. 25/2Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Artur Schnabel
1:21
15 op. 25/3Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Ernest Schelling
1:53
16 op. 25/4Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Peter Orth
2:08
17 op. 25/5Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Peter Orth
3:53
18 op. 25/6Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Annie Cory
2:10
19 op. 25/7Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Elly Ney
5:14
20 op. 25/8Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Télémaque Lambrino
1:14
21 op. 25/9Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Emil von Sauer
0:55
22 op. 25/10Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Joseph Lhévinne
3:17
23 op. 25/11Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Rudolf Serkin
4:01
24 op. 25/12Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Joseph Lhévinne
2:33
25Études op. 10op.10/3Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Eugenie Adam-Benard
4:25
26 op. 10/5Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Vladimir Horowitz
1:38
27Études op. 25op. 25/2Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Wladimir von Pachmann
1:37
28 op. 25/2Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Rudolf Serkin
1:31
29 op. 25/9Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Ignace Jan Paderewski
1:11

total playing time: 74:14

See reviews for this production

Pianiste (07/01/2011):

LES LEÇONS DU PASSÉ
La magie des Welte-Mignon
Debussy, Ravel, Mahler, Einecke, Grieg, Granados… jouent leurs œuvres.

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...

Fono Forum (01/02/2007):

"Dead men playing:
Seit Telefunken 1957 die ersten monauralen 25-Zentimeter-LPs mit Überspielungen von Klavierrollen herausbrachte, rissen die Versuche nicht mehr ab, den Fundus von weltweit knapp 20.000 Papier-Tonträgern aus knapp dreißig Jahren neu zu erschließen. more...

Pizzicato (06/01/2006):

"Bei TACET ist man nie um gute Ideen verlegen, wenn es darum geht, ganze Sachen zu machen. Man hat kurzerhand den Pianisten Peter Orth verpflichtet, um die 5 Préludes zu spielen, die auf den Welte-Mignon-Rollen von Chopins Zyklen op. more...

Audiophile Audition (04/01/2006):

"This is the latest continuation of "The Welte-Mignon Mystery" - from Germany′s Tacet label - Volume IV to be exact. We′ve reviewed in the past here several different CDs made from the amazing Welte piano rolls. more...