Composer: Leopold Godowsky
Performer: Konstantin Scherbakov
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Marco Polo
Catalogue: 8225372
Release: 2020
Size: 219 MB
Recovery: +3%
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53 Studies on the Chopin Études
01. No. 1 in C Major [1st Version After Chopin’s Op. 10 No. 1]
02. No. 4 in A Minor “Ignis fatuus” [2nd Version After Chopin’s Op. 10 No. 2]
03. No. 5 in D-Flat Major [After Chopin’s Op. 10 No. 3]
04. No. 6 in C-Sharp Minor [After Chopin’s Op. 10 No. 4]
05. No. 7 in G-Flat Major [1st Version After Chopin’s Op. 10 No. 5]
06. No. 13 in E-Flat Minor [After Chopin’s Op. 10 No. 6]
07. No. 14 in C Major “Toccata” [1st Version After Chopin’s Op. 10 No. 7]
08. No. 16 in F Major [1st Version After Chopin’s Op. 10 No. 8]
09. No. 17 in C-Sharp Minor [1st Version After Chopin’s Op. 10 No. 9]
10. No. 20 in A-Flat Major [2nd Version After Chopin’s Op. 10 No. 10]
11. No. 21 in A Major [After Chopin’s Op. 10 No. 11]
12. No. 22 in C-Sharp Minor [After Chopin’s Op. 10 No. 12]
13. No. 25 in A-Flat Major [3rd Version After Chopin’s Op. 25 No. 1]
14. No. 27 in F Minor “Waltz” [2nd Version After Chopin’s Op. 25 No. 2]
15. No. 29 in F Major [1st Version After Chopin’s Op. 25 No. 3]
16. No. 32 in F Minor “Polonaise” [2nd Version After Chopin’s Op. 25 No. 4]
17. No. 34 in C-Sharp Minor “Mazurka” [2nd Version After Chopin’s Op. 25 No. 5]
18. No. 36 in G-Sharp Minor “Study in Thirds” [After Chopin’s Op. 25 No. 6]
19. No. 38 in D-Flat Major “Study in Sixths” [After Chopin’s Op. 25 No. 8]
20. No. 39 in G-Flat Major [1st Version After Chopin’s Op. 25 No. 9]
21. No. 41 in B Minor [After Chopin’s Op. 25 No. 10]
22. No. 42 in A Minor [After Chopin’s Op. 25 No. 11]
23. No. 43 in C-Sharp Minor [After Chopin’s Op. 25 No. 12]
24. No. 44 in F Minor [After Chopin’s B. 130 No. 1]
25. No. 45 in E Major [1st Version After Chopin’s B. 130 No. 2]
Leopold Godowsky wrote his first Studies on the Chopin Études when he was barely 23 years old, and the complete cycle took some 20 years to finish. It remains one of the most extraordinary and technically demanding of all such works. It offered Godowsky one of the greatest virtuosi of his age, but a haphazard teacher an opportunity to resolve his innovative theories of keyboard technique. His exploration of developing the left hand in these studies remains revolutionary, and his ambition of furthering the art of pianoforte playing, triumphantly vindicated.