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Ivory encore for dead piano greats

By Mick Hamer

20 April 2005

NEXT month music lovers in Raleigh, North Carolina, will be able to hear two of the greatest pianists of the 20th century in concert. Both the pianists, however, are long dead.

Zenph Studios, a software company based in Raleigh, has found a way to take a music recording and convert it into a live concert played on real instruments. The concert will be a completely faithful rendition of the original pianists’ work.

Zenph resurrected a scratchy mono recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, made by the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould in 1955 and a recording of a Chopin prelude by…

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