UNAVAILABLE for years... The Recordings of The International Library of Piano Music is back! ... Digitally remastered for excellent sound quality

460 tracks...
Almost 20 hours of classical piano music!

Keep reading to learn how I found this long-lost treasure and restored it to the gem that it is ...

October 12, 2021

Dear Friend:

To start at the beginning, I began my piano lessons at age 49 (pretty gutsy, huh?), and my teacher often brought to my lessons a volume from the International Library of Piano Music for me to play from. Her enthusiasm for this collection got me thinking that I should own a set myself, so I bought a set in an eBay auction. Then I waited for a set of the LP's to come up for auction and I bought them too. By the way, the LP's don't come up for auction very often, and the tapes almost never do.

Soon I discovered a drawback to listening to these pieces on LP's: I could not listen at the piano, which is nowhere near my audio system. I thought, "Wouldn't it be great to have them on CD so I could listen on a portable CD player?" That's when it dawned on me--if I wanted them on CD, perhaps others did too, not only for listening at the piano, but just for listening! There's a lot of great music here!

So I tracked down the owners of the International Library of Piano Music and, believe me, it wasn't easy. The publishers, University Society, Inc., went out of business many years ago and the original owners are dead. It took months of effort to make this project happen.

They now sound better than they ever did

As an engineer I knew that the right equipment would be needed to produce a quality result, so I made sure that no shortcuts were taken while digitally re-mastering the recordings. In addition to using high-end equipment to capture the sound from the original records, a sophisticated sound processing program was used to remove the remaining hiss, rumble, and almost all trace of the pops and clicks that are inevitable with LP's.

By removing this noise from the LP's, the resulting quality of sound is actually better than the original. I must note, however, that in a very few cases the original recording is less than perfect. The recordings were made by many artists in different settings, and a very few had slight problems with distortion or a somewhat less than perfect acoustic environment. These probably amount to no more than fifteen or twenty minutes out of almost twenty hours. Even so, they are perfectly adequate for giving a student the "feel" of a piece--and they're still a pleasure to listen to.

CD's are no longer where it's at

For years I made the Recordings of the International Library of Piano Music available on 16 CD's. But technology doesn't stand still. CD's have become obsolete. So I have converted each piece to an MP3 file and stored them at Box, the cloud file storage site. When you purchase I will give you access to the Box site to download all these magnificent pieces. The contents of each CD I now refer to as a "collection". CD's are obsolete, MP3's are in!

460 tracks -- almost 20 hours of piano music

The International Library of Piano Music Recordings on MP3 is a set of 16 collections containing almost 20 hours of piano music in 460 tracks:

• 3 collections of Baroque Piano
• 5 collections of Classical Piano
• 6 collections of Romantic Piano
• 2 collections of Impressionist and Twentieth Century Piano

Within each era the pieces are arranged by composer and ordered as they are in the Table of Contents of the International Library of Piano Music. Below is a link to a PDF file of the large, easy-to-read 8-page booklet listing the contents of each collection.

You may find yourself just listening

You can find any piece you want to hear quickly and easily. Or you can just play each collection for 60 to 80 minutes of wonderful piano music. The other day I found myself listening to all the music of Beethoven (which fills two collections) while following along in Volume 2 of the International Library of Piano Music and wondering if I will be able to play this music some day (I keep taking lessons and practicing!). So if you need some inspiration to continue your efforts with the piano, this could be it!

No worries, mate !

This set of MP3's is offered with a Replacement guarantee --should you lose these MP3 files because of a computer crash or theft, I will give you access to download them again. No worries about losing part of your collection forever because digital data isn't "forever". I do recommend, however, that you backup your collection on a separate hard drive or flash drive or another computer.

Listen to a sample right now

Still not sure if this collection is for you? Then download the samples below and hear for yourself what the collection sounds like!

Scores sold...

I just love the Recordings and I know you will too. I have sold scores of this specialty item right from this simple web site. You can purchase Recordings of the International Library of Piano Music on MP3 right now for only $99.95. When you order I will give you access to the download site within 24 hours!

Yours Sincerely,

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Some of the performers on the CD's:

Images from marketing materials for the ILPM in the mid-1970's: