Joshua Bell- Rachmaninoff in a Zenph Re-performance is an amazing duet.

This duet performed live at Steinway Hall is from Joshua Bell: At Home With Friends on Sony Masterworks. Christine Iglesias Produced the live show. Film maker Michael Lawrence shot this footage and I produced this video. The genius was supplied by Dr. Anatoly Larkin and John Q. Walker PhD for Zenph Studios. Josh's talent and genius is self evident. Turn up your speakers this is a beautiful duet. Thank you. Jeffrey B. McIntyre - Zenph Studios www.zenph.com

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• Joshua Bell
• Rachmaninoff
• Piano
• Classical Music
• Duet
• Zenph
• Zenph Studios
• Jeffrey B. McIntyre

[bobjfs]

Well, I think it's outright spooky. It sounds wonderful.

[pianopera]

@flugelmaniac I see, I didn't know that, the accompanying booklet of the CD doesn't give many details about the exact process... I agree, re-interpreting all the dynamics by ear certainly isn't 100% reliable indeed!

I think it has some value because it comes much closer to Rachmaninoff's original intentions than the sometimes awkward Ampico roll recordings, and eliminates surface noise and mono sound of the original recordings.

[flugelmaniac]

@pianopera ....1909!,that's good......I'm not condeming the Zenph process because it can be of value don't you think?.......Agree with you about balance of the two instruments,acoustics etc............... however, my main concern is that all the dynamics are completely manually input,note for note with this system,( using human aural assessment) although the tempo and phrasing is copied by an electronic midi conversion .......a difficult task indeed and by no means 100% reliable, I feel.

[pianopera]

@flugelmaniac I guess it's the same Steinway that they used for the Zenph CD with piano solo tracks of Rachmaninoff -- A Steinway D from 1909 (pretty much the same as the composer played).

It's a completely computerized process, and quite exact... but somehow, some indefinable "magic" from the original is missing... and here we have an extra problem: the balance of the two instruments -- how were the acoustics of the original recording studio, and was the lid of that piano completely opened?

[flugelmaniac]

@pianopera, thanks for forwarding, good listening.........I wonder if that Steinway is quite a few years old?...if it is ,it's the better for it!.................Re the Zenph , it seems a good idea......but how sure can we be that EVERY note is reproduced as it was originally.....it' will always remain a skilled approximation of the dynamics, dependent on the skill of the editor....

[pianopera]

The special software developed by Zenph extracts every detail of a recorded performance and stores the data in a digital file that is played back on a real acoustic piano... I don't know how they managed to "unglue" Rachmaninoff's piano- and Kreisler's violin-sound when they recorded the Grieg Sonata. It is obvious that with a now "fixed" piano part the replacing violinist doesn't have much interpretative freedom, and feels the breath of Kreisler, but without loosing his own personality...

[a1s2d3f4g5q1w2e3]

@avdota You're right. Op.45, 2nd mvt. But the title refers to the names of the performers, comprised of Bell and Rachmaninoff ( realized via Zenph's reperformance).

[avdota]

It's not Rachmaninov's piece. It's Grieg's Sonata

[avdota]

@ilyabialo Точно, чудесный)

[BenMcCormack91]

@BenMcCormack91 Though that being said, the Zenph re-performance recordings of solo piano music are wonderful.