Until the appearance of Pro Piano's Godowsky: Java Suite featuring pianist Esther Budiardjo, one of the great gaping holes in the recorded repertoire had been Leopold Godowsky's mammoth and valedictory Java Suite, composed in the mid-'20s. Godowsky enjoys one of the most titanic reputations in the history of pianism, yet his recordings and piano ...
Freckled and red haired? Emil Gilels, the Soviet titan of the keyboard, was freckled and red haired? Yes, but only in his youth: by the time he attained his maturity, most of Gilels' freckles had faded. But while the red hair and the fiery temperament that went with it stayed with Gilels even in his more poised and balanced later years, his fire ...
Kaleidoscope is a sampling of rather obscure, virtuoso, solo piano works that show Marc-André Hamelin's talents to their best advantage. The pieces selected by Hamelin may be called miniatures, but they are hardly miniature in any way except performance time. All were written by pianist/composers, including a couple by Hamelin himself. All but two ...
The music of Leopold Godowsky has the reputation of being ostentatious and virtuosic to the point of being nearly unplayable. In some instances, such as with his reworkings of Chopin etudes, that reputation is grounded in fact. Yet, in volume five of his survey of Godowsky's solo piano works, Konstantin Scherbakov demonstrates that there are other ...
One thing virtuoso pianist Leopold Godowsky was renowned for was taking other composers' works and transforming them in ways that seem to go even further than Liszt's "transcriptions" of famous works. The results sometimes sound like truly fantasic flights of fancy with an overabundance of detail and gilding that make the original works seem like ...
Leopold Godowsky's "transcriptions" of Chopin's etudes are notorious for being technically difficult beyond the originals and, therefore, are rarely played, much less recorded, unless the pianist is a super-virtuoso like Marc-André Hamelin. Boris Berezovsky is another who has proven himself up to the task of successfully performing the fiendish ...
"Hyper-pianist" extraordinaire Carlo Grante is taking on some of the blackest piano music in history in his Godowsky Edition for Music & Arts, of which Romantic Transcriptions and Arrangements is the fifth volume. He began an earlier Godowsky edition for Altarus in the early '90s that only got as far as the Godowsky's 53 Studies on the Etudes of ...
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