Special offer. Godowsky - Piano Music Volume 12
Konstantin Scherbakov (piano)
The end is in sight: 12 down, three to go...Not that there is ever anything of the page-turning slog to this unique project. Each piece, played with no little affection, is wonderfully well...
Special offer. Godowsky - Piano Music Volume 12
Konstantin Scherbakov (piano)
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The end is in sight: 12 down, three to go...Not that there is ever anything of the page-turning slog to this unique project. Each piece, played with no little affection, is wonderfully well...
About
Leopold Godowsky’s stature as one of the world’s great piano virtuosi was maintained until a stroke ended his performing life in 1930. But, allied to his prodigious gifts as a performer, he also published a series of original compositions and transcriptions for the piano. In this twelfth volume of Konstantin Scherbakov’s critically acclaimed series, the focus falls on the delectable Six Waltz-Poems for the left hand and on an ingeniously crafted series of song transcriptions of well-known music by Schumann, Brahms, Schubert and also Carl Bohm.
Godowsky additionally pays homage to Kreisler with his delicious transcription of the Rondino on a theme of Beethoven.
Contents and tracklist
Godowsky:
25 Myrthen, Op. 25, No. 24. Du bist sie eine Blume (A Flower to Me Thou Seemest) [After R. Schumann]
Work length2:02
Godowsky:
5 Romanzen und Lieder, Op. 84, No. 4. Vergebliches Ständchen (After Brahms)
Work length1:22
Godowsky:
25 Myrthen, Op. 25, No. 14. Hochlandisches Wiegenlied (Highland Cradle Song) [After R. Schumann]
Work length1:37
Godowsky:
Die schone Mullerin, Op. 25, D. 795, No. 18. Trockne Blumen (After Schubert)
Work length3:08
Awards and reviews
January 2015
The end is in sight: 12 down, three to go...Not that there is ever anything of the page-turning slog to this unique project. Each piece, played with no little affection, is wonderfully well characterised to show these largely forgotten works in the best possible light.
