This is not an historical recording: quite the opposite. Tacet’s tube-only recording technique, renowned for their crystal clarity and spaciousness, score another triumph here. Yet the music is heard in the original interpretations, accurate to within a hair’s breadth. The key to the mystery is that the original performer was present at the recent recording session, but not physically. As if by time machine, the music is heard played on a modern Steinway, without the loss of sound quality usually inevitable with historical recordings. Never has music stored in the Welte-Mignon system sounded so "right" and so well. And because the mechanism of the Welte-Mignon system has recently been meticulously adjusted by the leading expert, Hans W. Schmitz, it is now possible to get to know the interpretations of yesteryear really well - and the results are sometimes unexpected. The Welte-Mignon’s treasures are only now systematically unveiled - by Tacet - because at last the necessary requirements have been met. The Welte-Mignon "player-piano" and its reproduction mechanism were invented in 1904.

Track Listing
Side A
Danzas Espanolas Op. 37
No. 10 Danza triste G-Dur
No. 2778 (Welte-Mignon Catalogue No.)
No. 7 Valencia o Calesera G-Dur
No. 2779
No. 5 Andaluza e-Moll No. 2780
Goyescas, Primera Parte
No. 3, El Fandango de Candil
(Dance By Candlelight) No. 2785

Side B
Valses poeticos Op. 10
No. 2781
Piece de Scarlatti
No. 2782
Goyescas, Primera Parte
No. 4 Quejas o la Maja y el Ruisenor
(The Lady and the Nightengale) No. 2786