Theodor Leschetizky plays Chopin Nocturne Op. 27 No. 2 in a 118-year-old Welte Roll Recording скачать в хорошем качестве

Theodor Leschetizky plays Chopin Nocturne Op. 27 No. 2 in a 118-year-old Welte Roll Recording

Austrian-Polish pianist and composer Theodor Leschetizky (1830-1915) recorded several piano rolls for the Welte player system in February 1906. So this is a riveting and distinctive 118-year-old performance by a 194-year-old pianist born before the music was composed, an 1836 Chopin Nocturne, Op. 27 No. 2, issued as Welte No. 1194. The Welte system recorded many famous artists’ performances like this in the very early 20th century, more than a decade before the US competitor reproducing piano systems like Ampico and Aeolian Duo-Art began recording artists in the late 1910s. The Welte system is known for its very lifelike rendering of performances. The piano is a large 6’2” New York-built Sohmer built in 1927, with both the piano and player mechanism restored in 2024 at Historic Pianos. From details of its condition, it appears that the player has not functioned since at least the mid 1940s. The piano was once owned by the Conrad Hilton family in their Los Angeles mansion Casa Encantada. In my opinion, the instrument has a distinctive tone, likely associated with unusual “agraffe bridge” design unique to “Golden Age” Sohmer instruments.