Composer: Leopold Godowsky
Performer: Konstantin Scherbakov
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Marco Polo
Catalogue: 8225350
Release: 2013
Size: 201 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Meditation (Version for piano 2 hands)
02. Impromptu (Version for piano 2 hands)
03. Capriccio (Version for piano 2 hands)
04. Intermezzo (Version for piano 2 hands)
05. Elegy (Version for piano 2 hands)
06. Etude macabre (Version for piano 2 hands)
07. Märchen
Suite for the Left Hand
08. I. Allemande
09. II. Courante
10. III. Gavotte
11. IV. Sarabande
12. V. Bourree
13. VI. Sicilienne
14. VII. Menuet
15. VIII. Gigue
16. Prelude
Prelude and Fugue for the Left Hand
17. Fugue
18. Moto Perpetuo
19. Symphonic Metamorphosis of the Schatz-Walzer themes from J. Strauss’s Der Zigeunerbaron for the Left Hand
Leopold Godowsky, one of the world’s greatest piano virtuosos, wrote a sequence of demanding works for his own instrument that fully reveal his exceptional command of the keyboard. The 1929 Six Pieces for both hands, each dedicated to a celebrated fellow pianist, are full of huge vitality, whilst the Suite for the left hand alone hints at baroque procedure in its movement titles but actually revels in late-romantic richness of expression. The Symphonic Metamorphoses on themes from the Gypsy Baron, only published after Godowsky’s death, is a brilliantly artful concoction.