Various Artists

Player Piano 4 - Piano Music Without Limits: Original Compositions of the 1920s

Label: MDG Scene Country: Germany

Works composed for the player piano in the 1920s, including Antheil's amazing "Ballet Mecanique", works by Stravinsky, Hindemith, Duchamp, &c. These composers put the player piano through its paces, with multi-layered meters, physically impossible runs and unusual juxtapositions. Many of the works on this release were previously available through a variety of different collections, and are now lovingly brought together and performed on a 1927 Ampico-Bosendorfer player piano prepared for this project's manager Jurgen Hooker.