Someone saw my web page, and sent me this mail: > I have a CD of Rachmaninoff playing his own music, but I have heard there > is also one using piano rolls of him playing the music of Bach, Mozart, > Tchiakowsky, etc., and I would like to get a hold of that one. If anyone knows anything about this, ...

•I have just received the new "Rachmaninoff: The Complete Recordings" for Disklavier (and Piano Disc) from Live Performance. This is an outstanding job by Wayne Stahnke, as always, and it includes 35 player piano roll performances that Rachmaninoff made for Ampico. It's a double-disc set, available ...

•"Rachmaninoff: The Complete Recordings" is _not_ available in Standard Midi File format, as incorrectly mentioned in MMDigest 970410. However, it is 100% compatible for playing on all models of Yamaha Disklavier. The two-disc album contains all the rolls recorded for Ampico by Sergei Rachmaninoff, ...

•Yesterday, a subscriber to MMD inquired about the availability of audio CD recordings of reproducing piano rolls. This note is in response to that query. I have been working with Telarc to produce commercially-available sound recordings of the complete music roll recordings of Rachmaninoff. There a...

•Over the past months, several contributors to the MMD have provided information regarding Compact Disc recordings of reproducing pianos. A new CD is about to appear, and I thought that MMD subscribers might want to know about it in advance. The CD is Telarc Catalog No. CD-80489, and it is scheduled...

•Wayne Stahnke's new CD recording of nineteen Rachmaninoff Ampico rolls has just been released. Rush out and buy it! This quite remarkable piece of work will impress and astonish even the most committed reproducing piano enthusiast. On listening to it, there is a feeling that the full subtlety of ex...

•To Everyone: This is to advise you that the new Telarc recording of the Ampico rolls of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Telarc 80489 ("A Window in Time") has a 'street date' of August 25, 1998. That means that it will not be available commercially before then. I suggest that you leave your order with your loc...

•A few days ago MMD posted a list of the roll numbers and titles of the selections on my upcoming Compact Disc, Telarc CD-80489. Unfortunately, in that note both the roll numbers and the titles were scrambled. This could lead to some difficulties since (for example) the roll numbers cannot be found ...

•For many months my Telarc CD of Rachmaninoff's music rolls (Catalog No. 80489) has been scheduled for release on August 25, 1998. Today I went to the local Tower Records store in Marina del Rey (west of Los Angeles) and I found to my delight that the new CD was on display in the New Releases sectio...

•I got mine. I checked Tower Records and HMV (CD megastore) in Philadelphia. Nobody knew what I was talking about. They both did searches using cross-referencing on their respective computer systems. This occurred on this past Friday and Saturday (Aug 28, 29). While waiting for a movie in Ardmore, P...

•Hi friends, I thought I would offer a few words concerning the new Rachmaninoff CD, "A Window in Time", which has been transcribed, realized, and edited from Ampico recordings by Wayne Stahnke. I purchased my copy at a local record store yesterday, and immediately upon getting home, I placed it int...

•Three CDs, three very different Rachmaninoffs ! Without much else to do on a Sunday, I pulled out my copy of Wayne Stahnke's new CD (Telarc 80489) and a London Digital remaster of the 1978 recording (London 425 964-2) produced by Peter Wadland. Wadland's recording featured a 9-foot Estonia grand wi...

•I was curious if anyone else has ordered the above selection from Telarc and has received nothing. I ordered the disc some time ago and also sent two additional "E" mails to them and have heard nothing back. 'makes a fellow a little nervous to send off a CC number and get nothing in return. Thanks ...

•Hi All, Here's a copy of the web page I just posted at Player-Care: http://www.player-care.com/stahnke.html This page is linked to my 'Solenoid Sarcasm' page as "New Information (10/22/98)... New Technology" - - - 'A Window in Time' Music by Rachmaninoff Realized by Wayne Stahnke As of October 22, ...

•Hello MMD -- I spent some time yesterday comparing Wayne Stahnke's CD of the Rachmaninoff Ampico rolls [Telarc CD-80489] with the CDs of the disk recordings issued by RCA. I have been listening to the disks regularly for about 20 years, so I am quite familiar with Rachmaninoff's playing. My opinion...

•In MMD 981025 Robbie asked: >[ Don, which CDs of Rachmaninoff's audio (phonograph) recordings >[ do you recommend? Can you tell us the publisher and catalog number, >[ please? I'd like to make the same aural comparison that you did. The set I have is on the RCA label (which belongs to BMG). It is "...

•I sat down and listened to the Rachmaninoff audio recordings against the Stahnke CD (with Denis Hall, a long-term expert in both reproducing piano and audio recordings). My original concern after just hearing the CD was that the Boesendorfer, with its harder tone than older instruments, was rather ...

•Julian Dyer wrote: > My original concern after just hearing the CD was that the > Boesendorfer, with its harder tone than older instruments, > was rather over-accenting the music. The Boesendorfer does have a more sinewy sound than most Steinways, but Horowitz's specially maintained Steinway has a ...

•Hello Internet readers, While carrying on a conversation between John Tuttle (who asked for my opinion of the Telarc CD which features a brittle-sounding Boesendorfer playing MIDI transcription of 'Rachmaninoff' Ampico rolls), I received the following text from a pianist, who has extensive knowledg...

•I've been following the Rachmaninoff CD thread with some interest. I have a slightly different experience. I have Wayne Stahnke's Disklavier version of the Rachmaninoff Ampico rolls which includes "Prelude in C Sharp Minor", the corresponding Ampico roll, and the Edison Diamond Disc as played by Ra...