Transcriptions

L. Godowsky (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 19, 1997)
• Label: Cbc Records/Musica Viva (Can)
• ASIN: B000003WYA
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #780,242 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Studies (54) on Chopin Etudes for piano: No 7 in G flat from Chopin's Op 10, No 5

2. Studies (54) on Chopin Etudes for piano: No 8 in C major from Chopin's Op 10, No 5

3. Studies (54) on Chopin Etudes for piano: No 19 in D major from Chopin's Op 10, No 10

4. Studies (54) on Chopin Etudes for piano: No 31 in A minor from Chopin's Op 25, No 4

5. Studies (54) on Chopin Etudes for piano: No 45 in E major from Chopin's Nouvelle étude No 2

6. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Gute Nacht, transcribed for piano by Godowsky

7. Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen ('Ruh'n in Frieden alle Seelen'), song for voice & piano, D. 343: Transcribed for piano by Godowsky

8. Rosamunde, Fürstin von Cypern, incidental music, D. 797 (Op. 26): Ballet Music, transcribed for piano by Godowksy

9. Ständchen ('Mach' auf, mach' auf, doch leise, mein Kind'), song for voice & piano, Op. 17/2 (TrV 149/2)

10. España, album leaves (6) for piano, Op. 165, B. 37: Tango

11. Renaissance for keyboard: No 12, Gigue, transcribed by Godowksy

12. Passacaglia on the Opening of Schubert's 'Unfinished' Symphony, variations (44) for piano

13. Prelude and Fugue on 'B. A. C. H.,' for piano, left hand

14. Etude Macabre, for piano

15. Java Suite: Phonoramas, Tonal Journeys for piano: No 2, Wayang Purwa

16. Java Suite: Phonoramas, Tonal Journeys for piano: No 8, Les jardins de Buitenzorg

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Godowsky Rarities Given Their Due By Master Pianist, July 5, 1999

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This review is from: Transcriptions (Audio CD)

Leopold Godowsky was nicknamed the "budda of the piano". His music continues to amaze and infuriate people. His etudes on Chopin etudes are a case in point-he makes them harder! Not many pianists have been able to tackle his music-especially my favorite-the Passacaglia based on the opening theme of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. The sound could be better-it does not expand as much as it should-Hamelin's dynamic range is so wide that it is hard to contain. This is a minor quibble-until Hamelin finishes recording all of the Chopin Etudes, this will do just fine for now, especially for the Passacaglia.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fine works, masterfully played, June 18, 2001

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TomDee "TADMGPA" (Maple Glen, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Transcriptions (Audio CD)

I heard this recording when it first came out some ten years ago and came away wishing I had the complete Godowsky transcriptions of the Chopin etudes. Fortunately, Marc-Andre Hamelin has since recorded all of them, available on a set released not too long ago. I found a negative review of this CD (see "B-O-R-I-N-G") here on Amazon very odd and hopelessly illiterate and wrong-headed... "boring" it definitely is not! Godowsky's sense of coloration, registration, and key selection is exquisite, and does nothing to detract from Chopin's fundamental intentions. On the contrary, he does what every transcriber hopes to do...he offers a fresh and meaning-enhancing view of the original. Further, the tours-de-force of left-hand-only transcriptions leave you wondering how any human could possibly execute them in the was that Hamelin does. My conclusion: Fine works, breathtakingly performed by Hamelin, surely one of the greatest artists ever to touch a piano, and certainly one whom Godowsky would have regarded with awe.

0 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a greatest piano music, December 31, 1998

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This review is from: Transcriptions (Audio CD)

I'm very happy to hear this wonderfull musi