Composer: Leopold Godowsky
Performer: Konstantin Scherbakov
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Marco Polo
Catalogue: 8225367
Release: 2015
Size: 167 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Meditation
02. Impromptu
03. Capriccio
04. Intermezzo
05. Elegy
06. Etude macabre
Bizet: L’Arlésienne Suite No. 1, Op. 23b, WD 40
07. III. Adagietto (Transcr. L. Godowsky for Piano)
Godard: Canzonetta (Concerto romantique for violin Op. 35)
08. III. Canzonetta (Transcr. L. Godowsky for Piano)
09. Weber: Momento capriccioso, Op. 12, J. 56 (Transcr. L. Godowsky for Piano)
10. Chopin: Rondo in E-Flat Major, Op. 16 (Transcr. L. Godowsky for Piano)
Saint-Saëns: Le carnaval des animaux
11. XIII. Le cygne (Transcr. L. Godowsky for Piano)
Albéniz: Iberia, book 2
12. III. Triana (Transcr. L. Godowsky for Piano)
Albéniz: Espagne
13. II. Tango (Transcr. L. Godowsky for Piano)
14. Bishop: Home, Sweet Home (Transcr. L. Godowsky for Piano)
15. Smith: The Star-Spangled Banner (Transcr. L. Godowsky for Piano)
16. Straus: Der letzte Walzer (Transcr. L. Godowsky for Piano)
Godowsky: Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Johann Strauss
17. No. 2, Die Fledermaus
Polish-American pianist and composer Leopold Godowsky was acknowledged as one of the great virtuosi of his time. The Six Pieces for the Left Hand Alone were all written for distinguished pianists – Dmitri Tiomkin, Jossef Lhévinne, Ernest Hutcheson, Alexander Siloti, Gottfried Galston and Emile-Robert Blanchet – and are supreme examples of the genre. Godowsky’s transcriptions and arrangements transform familiar originals into pianistic showpieces, reflecting his breadth of taste and the demands of his audiences. This thrilling programme concludes with a substantial and intricately interwoven medley of themes from Strauss’s operetta Die Fledermaus.