Types of MIDI's at kunstderfuge.com

MIDI sequence {s} vs real performance {p}

As sequences we mean files realised by the manual introduction of values (notes on/off, velocities, program changes...); differently, as a recording we indicate a (real) performance made when playing through a keyboard (or any other MIDI-compatible instrument) connected to a MIDI-compatible hard/software.

Gabriel Fauré: • SAMPLE • Barcarolle in a minor, Op. 26 {s}
Gabriel Fauré: • SAMPLE • Barcarolle in a minor, Op. 26 {p}

Sequences by © Thomas Lefeldt
Real performance by © Katsuhiro Oguri

Recordings

The best recordings at kunstderfuge.com are marked with this brown label:

Fryderyk Chopin: • SAMPLE • Nocturne in b flat minor, Op. 9 No. 1
Dietrich Buxtehude: • SAMPLE • Canzona in C major *

Real performance by © Daisuke Inoue
* Real performance by © Nausica Th. Classical

Old recordings made on Piano Rolls and scanned into MIDI file

These extraordinary documents are derived from scanning of the historical piano rolls recorded by the most relevant pianists of the XX c. (read more). All piano rolls at kunstderfuge.com are marked with the following yellow label:

Fryderyk Chopin: • SAMPLE • Etude in c sharp minor, Op. 10 No. 3
Sergej Rachmaninov: • SAMPLE • Elegie in e flat minor, Op. 3 No. 1 *

Ampico (?) (live) recording, piano: Alfred Cortot
* Ampico (live) recording, piano: Sergej Rachmaninov

MIDI sequences

Aleksandr Scriabin: • SAMPLE • Etude in d sharp minor from the Etudes Op. 8 (1894)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: • SAMPLE • Introduction + Scène from The Swan Lake Op. 20 *

Sequence by © Thomas Lefeldt
* Sequence by © Jean-François Lucarelli

(Edited or quantized) recordings

On MIDI recordings the final result may be optimized though manual editing (first case) or automatic quantizing (second case).

Edited:

Johann Sebastian Bach: • SAMPLE • Prelude and Fugue in B flat major, BWV 866 from the Well tempered Clavier, I book

Quantized:

Johann Sebastian Bach: • SAMPLE • Prelude and Fugue in B flat major, BWV 866 from the Well tempered Clavier, I book

Mixed -> MIDI recording into music-minus-one background

Some solo piano performances may be played into a music-minus-one background, which may be a pure sequence or a real performance.

Sergej Rachmaninov: • SAMPLE • 2-3. Intermezzo (Adagio), attacca: Finale (alla breve) from the Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 3 in d minor, Op. 30

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