Title: Piano Music 11 Artist: Leopold Godowsky Label: Marco Polo Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 636943535028 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2013-07-30 Number of Discs: 1
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 it's 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.
Tracks: 1.1 Meditation 1.2 Impromptu 1.3 Capriccio 1.4 Intermezzo 1.5 Elegy 1.6 Etude Macabre 1.7 Marchen 1.8 Allemande 1.9 Courante 1.10 Gavotte 1.11 Sarabande 1.12 Bourree 1.13 Sicilienne 1.14 Menuet 1.15 Gigue 1.16 Prelude 1.17 Fugue 1.18 Moto Perpetuo 1.19 Symphonic Metamorphosis of the Schatz - Walzer Themes from J. Strauss's 'Der Zigeunerbaron' for the Left Hand
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