Godowsky: Piano Music, Vol. 13 Konstantin Scherbakov

• Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938):
• 1 Meditation (version for the left hand) 02:45
• 2 Impromptu (version for the left hand) 01:59
• 3 Capriccio (version for the left hand) 03:59
• 4 Intermezzo (version for the left hand) 02:32
• 5 Elegy (version for the left hand) 02:38
• 6 Etude Macabre (version for the left hand) 02:01
• Georges Bizet (1838-1875):
• 7 L'Arlésienne Suite No. 1, Op. 23b, WD 40: Bizet - L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1: III. Adagietto 02:15
• Benjamin Godard (1849-1895):
• 8 Concerto romantique, Op. 35: Godard - Concerto Romantique, Op. 35: III. Canzonetta 03:28
• Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826):
• 9 Weber - Momento Capriccioso, Op. 12 04:08
• Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849):
• 10 Chopin - Rondo in E-Flat Major, Op. 16 07:45
• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921):
• 11 Le carnaval des animaux: Saint-Saens - Carnival of the Animals: XIII. Le Cygne (The Swan) 02:51
• Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909):
• 12 Iberia, Book 2: Albeniz - Iberia, Book 2: III. Triana 05:25
• 13 España, Op. 165: Albeniz - Espana, Op. 165: II. Tango 02:45
• Henry Bishop (1786-1855):
• 14 Bishop - Home, Sweet Home 03:33
• John Stafford Smith (1750-1836):
• 15 Smith - The Star-Spangled Banner 02:05
• Oscar Straus (1870-1954):
• 16 Straus - Der Letzte Walzer (The Last Waltz) 02:18
• Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938):
• 17 3 Symphonische Metamorphosen Johann Strauss'scher Themen: No. 2. Die Fledermaus 12:03
• Total Runtime 01:04:30

Info zu Godowsky: Piano Music, Vol. 13

Polish-American pianist and composer Leopold Godowsky was acknowledged as one of the great virtuosi of his time. The Six Pieces for the Left Hand Alone were all written for distinguished pianists—Dmitri Tiomkin, Jossef Lhévinne, Ernest Hutcheson, Alexander Siloti, Gottfried Galston and Emile-Robert Blanchet—and are supreme examples of the genre. Godowsky’s transcriptions and arrangements transform familiar originals into pianistic showpieces, reflecting his breadth of taste and the demands of his audiences. This thrilling programme concludes with a substantial and intricately interwoven medley of themes from Strauss’s operetta Die Fledermaus.

„Konstantin Scherbakov has been working his way through the copious output of the Polish-American pianist and composer Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938) for 15 years. This is the 13th disc in his Marco Polo series, and it pairs six of Godowsky's original pieces for left hand alone, with 11 of the arrangements and paraphrases. Though Godowsky hoped that his posthumous reputation would rest on his achievements as a composer, his own music continues to languish. He's remembered now as one of the last virtuosi in the great 19th-century pianistic tradition, and perhaps also for the 53 Studies that he composed on Chopin's Studies, pieces that remain among the most fiendishly demanding ever written. Hints of that delight in transcendental virtuosity for its own sake may not be so obvious in the six left-hand pieces, which most often sound like off-cuts of Rachmaninov, but certainly come through in the arrangements, such as the Momento Capriccioso, based on Weber, and Godowsky's versions of two pieces by Albéniz, while the big finale, the rather raucous Symphonic Metamorphoses on Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus constantly ratchets up the bravura demands. Scherbakov is equal to everything the music throws at him, even if occasionally he seems a little strait-laced, though you re unlikely to want to hear much of the disc very often.“ (Guardian)

„If you haven't sampled Godowsky before,this is a good a place as anywhere to start.“ (Gramophone)

„I can think of no one who can bring out all the inner parts with such ease and wizardry in the Strauss' Die Fledermaus like Scherbakov. Get this disc.“ (Pianist)

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