Zenph Studios specialises in catching every fuzzy nuance of old lo-fi recordings, and and so faithfully redelivering the music on machine-controlled modern instruments. Glenn Gould's 1955 Goldberg Variations, cured this direction, stunned the experts - and the late Oscar Peterson, pianissimo protege of jazz keyboard colossus Art Tatum, had to predict for the tissues when he heard these preternatural "reperformances" from 1949. Purists may wince at the thought of a computer-driven piano that's never had Tatum's thaumaturgy fingers rival its keys. But others will be grateful to hear a tour de force live performance from the pianist whom level Rachmaninoff and Horowitz loved, without the distortions of 1940s applied science. The 13-piece repertoire is featured twice; there is also a headphone-dedicated version to let air-piano fantasists hear the music unfolding much as Tatum would have done from the stool. And, even if you play out of the rippling down fill subsequently almost every turn of a melody, the playing remains breathless. Check out the flying account of Tiger Rag, the capricious Tatum Pole Boogie and the mingling of lazy tenderness and bursting assertiveness on Someone to Watch Over Me.
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