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Since the late 1990s Konstantin Scherbakov has been working his way through recording Leopold Godowsky’s complete piano music for Marco Polo, saving the (in)famous studies
Konstantin Scherbakov has been working his way through Leopold Godowsky’s complete solo piano oeuvre for the Marco Polo label since 1996. With Volume 14, the
In my review of Emanuele Delucchi’s first of two projected CDs devoted to Leopold Godowsky’s complete studies based on the Chopin Etudes, I cited the
Collectors who know Jorge Bolet as the reserved and occasionally
It’s a critical cliché to equate pianists attempting Leopold Godowsky’s complete Studies based on Chopin’s Études with mountaineers ascending Mount Everest, yet it’s the truth.
The 12th volume of Konstantin Scherbakov’s ongoing Leopold Godowsky cycle primarily features shorter original works and transcriptions of German art songs. Compared to his elaborate
Any discussion about the most difficult works in the piano
These things—meaning whole programs of so-called “encores”—are fundamentally pointless: after
There’s no question that Carl Petersson’s fingers can efficiently dispatch the elaborate intricacies of Leopold Godowsky’s Java Suite; yet his literal, texturally monochrome, frequently unimaginative