The CEUS project
The CEUS project
These recordings were made in March 2007 at veteran pianist Paul Badura-Skoda's recording studio in Vienna. Instead of actual rolls, MIDI files (available from this website) were used to play a Bosendorfer Imperial, which was fitted with Bosendorfer's computerised MIDI mechanical player system, called the CEUS.
Bosendorfer Imperial as used in these recordings
CEUS player system making waves on a keyboard
 
CEUS project MIDI files, click on image for shop display
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Five excerpts:
1.  Magic Fire Music (Wagner) Rybner;
2. The Erlking (Schubert) Loesser;
3. Rhapsodie d'Auvergne (Saint-Saens) Brailowsky;
4. Appassionata 1st mov (Beethoven) Levitzki;
5. Floods of Spring (Rachmaninoff) Suskind [Total time 3:15]
Click to listen to a sample of five tracks from the CEUS CD series
Some of the pianists we recorded
Click icon for PDF about the CEUS recording project
CDs and individual tracks are also available
from the Naxos MusicLibrary online service.
Click icon for PDF track listing on each CD
to Naxos
Revolutionary Etude Op.10 No.12 (Chopin), played by Mieczyslaw Munz
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Click to listen to a complete recording from the CEUS CD series
Photos of the equipment, piano and people involved in making the CEUS recordings.
The result is 12 CDs of classical music by 46 composers played by 62 concert pianists. A CD with 18 tracks of Gershwin's music was also recorded. Audio file downloads include comprehensive booklet notes and artwork.
The exceptional capability of the Bosendorfer
instrument has brought these historic
performances to new highs, hence our claim
Ampico rolls as you have never heard them.
Audio files
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MIDI files
Photo gallery
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