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Good evening, everyone.

Over the years, Yamaha has published a small number of piano concerto files for Disklavier. These files use the built-in XG tone generator for the orchestrations. These orchestrations stretch the limits of realism that you can expect from an XG MIDI tone generator. In general, however, I think that you’ll find them to be much more satisfying than MIDI files that you find on the Internet. You should be able to find them at www.yamahamusicsoft.com <http://www.yamahamusicsoft.com/>.

Files that you find on the Internet are typically GM instead of XG, which limits the realism a bit, and the piano part is usually not recorded on the Disklavier, which makes the result even less satisfying.

A more satisfying experience would be to hear a piano concerto with either a more advanced tone generator (such as Garritan Personal Orchestra) or with a real audio recording of the orchestra.

At various times there have been concerto broadcasts of piano concerto performances on DisklavierTV. Regrettably, I don’t find any in the On Demand section of the DisklavierTV site at this time, but you should watch for them.

You can find quite a number of piano concerto recordings in the QRS library:

http://www.qrsmusic.com/music.asp?cid1=102&cid2=106 <http://www.qrsmusic.com/music.asp?cid1=102&cid2=106>

I believe that they were made using audio recordings of the orchestra from Music Minus One. I don’t know how well they play nor if they are playable on the Disklavier, but they might be worth considering.

Regards,
PianoBench


> On Dec 14, 2014, at 5:08 AM, James Fry groups@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Have you considered sending the drive to a computer data recovery expert? The Disklavier control unit is just a small Linux computer, after all. You might be able to get some of your material back depending on how the drive failed. 
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> I don't have any good sources of orchestra + piano files I'm afraid. There are a few 'OK' files on http://www.kunstderfuge.com/mozart.htm <http://www.kunstderfuge.com/mozart.htm>.
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> ClassicalArchives.com <http://classicalarchives.com/> has a vast library of MIDI files and used to be free, but they now charge a subscription - at least you can get a short trial and hear the performances online before you subscribe though.
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> There is also the archive from the http://www.piano-e-competition.com/ <http://www.piano-e-competition.com/> (go to the 'Winner History' link and you can get the midi files for each year) - though not with orchestra.
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> Hopefully others can chime in with more suggestions.
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> Good luck!
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> James
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> On 14 December 2014 at 07:19, Julien Roche julien.roche@... <mailto:julien.roche@ymail.com> [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com <mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I crashed my HDD on disklavier, but reinstall a great SSD with fantastic help of Bill, but unfortunately I am unable to restore my music (probably badly saved)
> Out of Yamaha sources, when can I download free or against payment some great piano concertos for Disklavier Mark IV (with real orchestra) and also some good cocktail music for ambiance and great classic ? I use yamaha radio but same for too log time.
> Thank you !
> Julien
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