
The live performances on this disc stem from the 2009 International Van Cliburn Competition and feature the Silver Medal award winner, 23-year-old Yeol Eum Son.
Leopold Godowsky’s 1925 Java Suite consists of 12 piano pieces inspired by the sights and sounds he absorbed during his Indonesian concert tour. For the
This highly acclaimed 1992 Godowsky recital for Hyperion makes a welcome reappearance on the midprice Helios label and warrants serious consideration. Rian De Waal’s swift,
Boris Berezovsky offers a live program of Chopin Etudes placed alongside Leopold Godowsky’s infamously difficult Chopin Etudes transcriptions, allowing listeners to experience Godowsky’s textural elaborations
Volume 6 of Marco Polo’s Leopold Godowsky cycle focuses on Schubert, or rather Godowsky’s rewriting Schubert to suit his pianocentric agenda. Liszt’s transcriptions of Schubert
Antti Siirala, winner of the 2000 London International Piano Competition (not 2001 as the cover states), offers a debut recital centered around hyphenated Schubert. Franz
As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction, particularly so in the case of Leopold Godowsky’s piano versions of Brahms’ Four Symphonies for the
Leopold Godowsky’s 1927 Passacaglia subjects the opening measures of Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony to 44 variations, a cadenza, and a huge fugue. There’s nothing remotely Schubertian
The inherent challenges of Leopold Godowsky’s 53 Studies on Chopin Etudes add up to a veritable Everest of superpianism that only a select few performers
In the realm of miniatures and transcriptions, Leopold Godowsky’s genius for concocting elaborate and fustian piano textures truly flowered, much as a brilliant interior decorator
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