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The Godowsky Collection, Volume 3:53 Studies in Etudes of Frederic Chopin and Other Chopin Arrangements.(Book Review)
compilation and introductory notes by Millan Sachania Carl Fischer (65 Bleecker St., New York, NY 10012), 2002. 445 pp., $49.95. Advanced.
Carl Fischer has released the third volume of its five-volume compilation, The Godowsky Collection, a volume consisting of the famously controversial "53 Studies on Etudes of Frederic Chopin" and seven additional Chopin arrangements. Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938) was one of the most celebrated pianists of his generation, highly admired by colleagues such as Leschetizky, Hofmann and de Pachmann. His Chopin transcriptions were originally published between 1894 and 1914.
The bulk of this volume contains fifty-three versions of twenty-six Chopin etudes, including the "Trois Nouvelles Etudes." An introductory essay by Millan Sachania explores the controversy behind Godowsky's arrangements and also explains in detail his transcription methods. A biographical sketch of Godowsky also is included, as well as Godowsky's original remarks and preparatory exercises. Especially interesting prefaces are the ones about the twenty-two studies for left hand alone and a description of different forms used in the studies (including a nocturne, waltz and polonaise). Two Godowsky studies cunningly combine two different etudes simultaneously. The volume concludes with concert arrangements of Chopin's Rondo, Op. 16, and five waltzes.
Godowsky's masterful transcriptions explore various manipulations of ...
- GODOWSKY: Studies on Chopin's Etudes.
- Magazine article from: American Record Guide SCHONBERG July 1, 2000 700+ words
...these, 22 are for the left hand alone. Many are in multiple...Key alone. Very often Godowsky switched hands, and you...thirds transferred to the left hand. Hamelin attacks this...to stand up and cheer. Godowsky made polonaises or mazurkas...
- Godowsky: Original Works and Transcriptions.
- Magazine article from: American Music Rivers, Kate March 22, 1994 700+ words
...of Chopin's etudes, since Godowsky's reworkings are thought...fifty-three works which, as Godowsky states in his preface to the...handed etudes to etudes for the left hand alone; with other works he...s treble and bass parts. Godowsky even succeeded with the unimaginable...
- Godowsky: 53 Studies on Chopin Etudes. (Guide to Records).
- Magazine article from: American Record Guide Moses, Kurt March 1, 2002 700+ words
...A 10931 [2CD] 160 minutes Godowsky began making these concoctions...than Rachmaninoff accessed Godowsky as "the only musician of this...sometimes tortuous pieces, Godowsky challenges the performer to...of the Studies are for the left hand alone; often the original...
- Godowsky: Studies on Chopin Etudes.
- Magazine article from: American Record Guide Becker March 1, 2006 700+ words
GODOWSKY: Studies on Chopin Etudes Boris Berezovsky...competition with Hamelin's magnificent set of Godowsky's entire etudes (July/Aug 2000...side by side selection of the Chopin with Godowsky's takeoffs on them. The etudes are...
- Godowsky: Schubert Transcriptions.(Guide to Records)
- Magazine article from: American Record Guide Becker May 1, 2004 700+ words
GODOWSKY: Schubert Transcriptions Konstantin Scherbakov...here, be prepared for a big surprise. Godowsky's transcriptions (in a few cases paraphrases...elaboration, it can come as no surprise that Godowsky keeps substantially to the key of B...
- CD review-Johann Strauss transcribed.(Godowsky: Strauss Transcriptions and...
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Paterson, Anthony September 22, 2008 700+ words
...keyboard repertoire, have issued a new CD Godowsky: Strauss Transcriptions and Other Waltzes...widely and rightly praised. Leopold Godowsky was one of that procession of brilliant...although by then a US citizen) in 1908 Godowsky made a speciality of Strauss waltzes...
- Chopin-Godowsky: Etudes.
- Magazine article from: Music Week November 5, 2005 700+ words
Chopin-Godowsky Etudes. Berezovsky (Warner Classics...sound like child's play beside Leopold Godowsky's ornate transcriptions of the same...potential carnage of performing the Chopin-Godowsky Etudes in public. In this live concert...
- Godowsky: Piano Sonata; Passacaglia. (Guide to Records).
- Magazine article from: American Record Guide Mulbury, David May 1, 2002 700+ words
Marc-Andre Hamelin--Hyperion 67300--66 mm Leopold Godowsky's Piano Sonata was composed in 1910-11, when he was teaching...obliged the composer to keep from straying or rambling, yet Godowsky's fertile pianistic imagination could be focussed to yield...
- GODOWSKY: Java Suite.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: American Record Guide SCHONBERG, HAROLD C May 1, 2000 700+ words
...and then in Hollywood, where he composed much film music. Godowsky, of course, we know more about. He was proud of his Java...exoticisms of the new musical language they had encountered. Godowsky even pitched in with a touch of humor, in 'Chattering Monkeys...
- Conductor's newest recording builds recital from left-hand works. (Originated...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Valdes, Lesley October 19, 1993 700+ words
...literature for piano left hand. It's a task he shares...from a half-dozen solo left-hand works. Some names are...also inform Leopold Godowsky's ``Symphonic Metamorphoses...the string player's left hand, which must expand to...
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