https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oCsOomqvc0
Sounds amazing, especially 3rd mvmt! So full rich sound with slight tinge of harpsichord. How to get such a sound in Pianoteq? I tried default presets of "Walter" but it was not even close to that recording...
There is one big difference form the start: this is a copy, "too good to be true", while PTQ is based on a real Walter.
Also, a "Walter" is not a "standard" at all: each one is very different, as it was normal in this era of piano manufacturing.
I had the opportunity to record two different Walter pianofortes (one in Italy, one in France), and it was night and day: the first was very, very "bright" (almost too much) while the other was much more like the one in the video. But you could hardly believe they were made by the same person. Now, the restoration process was probably very different too... difficult to say which one was better done than the other.
This being, said, try playing this piece on the PTQ "Graf" (Beethoven owned one in his last years), it's closer to this sound than the Walter IMHO. You'll notice how clearly the low range is "articulating" the end of the first movement: I swear that Beethoven would never have written this on a Steinway D ! :-)
Wonderful playing and wonderful piano sound, I agree. Thanks for posting this video.
Moonlight Sonata finally sounds proper!
The vídeo it's very nice, pleasant...
But this model it's more fpr Mozart compositions than for Beethoven's Moonlight SOnata, if we look when it was composed.
Moonlight Sonata finally sounds proper!