Leopold Godowsky: Studies after the Études of Chopin, Vol. 2

On this CD:

1. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 21 after Chopin's Etude in A major (Op 10, No 11)
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

2. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 22 in C sharp minor on Étude in C sharp, Op 10, No 12
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

3. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 23 after Chopin's Etude in A flat major (Op 25, No 1)
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

4. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 24 after Chopin's Etude in A flat major (Op 25, No 1)
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

5. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 25 in A flat major on Étude in A flat major, Op 25, No 1
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

6. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 26 after Chopin's Etude in F minor (Op 25, No 2)
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

7. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 27 in F minor "Waltz," after Chopin's Etude in F Minor Op 25 No 2
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

8. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 28 after Chopin's Etude in F minor (Op 25, No 2)
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

9. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 28a after Chopin's Etude in F sharp minor(Op 25, No 2)
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

10. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 29 after Chopin's Etude in F (Op 25, No 3)
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

11. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 30 after Chopin's Etude in F (Op 25, No 3)
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

12. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 31 after Chopin's Etude in A minor(Op 25, No 4)
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

13. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 32 in F minor "Polonaise," after Chopin's Etude in F minor, Op 25, No 4
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

14. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 33 after Chopin's Etude in E minor (Op 25, No 5)
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

15. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 32 in F major"Polonaise," after Chopin's Etude in C sharp minor, Op 25, No 5
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

16. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 35 after Chopin's Etude in B flat minor (Op 25, No 5)
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

17. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 36 in G sharp, after Chopin's Etude in G sharp minor Op 25 No 6
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

18. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 38 in D flat major. after Chopine's Etude in D flat major, Op 25, No 8
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

19. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 39 after Chopin's Etude in G flat major (Op 25, No 09)
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

20. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 40 after Chopin's Etude in G flat major (Op 25, No 09)
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

21. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 41 after Chopin's Etude in B minor (Op 25, No 10)
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

22. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 42 in A major, after Chopin's Etude in A major (Op 10, No 11)
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

23. Studies (53) on Chopin Etudes for piano No 43 after Chopin's Etude in C# minor (Op 25, No 12)
Composed by Leopold Godowsky
Performed by Carlo Grante

Tracks:

Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 1 Op.10 No.1 C Major-diatonic
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 2 Op.10 No.1 D Flat Major-Left Hand
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 3 Op.10 No.2 A Minor-Left Minor
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 4 Op.10 No.2 A Minor-'Ignisfatuus'
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 5 Op.10 No.3 D Flat Major-Left Hand
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 6 Op.10 No.4 C Sharp Minor-Left Hand
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 7 Op.10 No.5 G Flat Major
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 8 Op.10 No.5 C Major
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 9 Op.10 No.5 A Minor-'Tarantella'
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 10 Op.10 No.5 A Major-'Capriccio'
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 11 Op.10 No.5 G Flat Major
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 12 Op.10 No.5 G Flat Major
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 12A Op.10 No.5 G Flat Major-Left Hand
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 13 Op.10 No.6 E Flat Minor-Left Hand
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 14 Op.10 No.7 C Major
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 15 Op.10 No.7 G Flat Major
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 15A Op.10 No.7 E Flat Major-Left Hand
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 16 Op.10 No.8 F Major
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 16A Op.10 No.8 G Flat Major-Left Hand
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 17 Op.10 No.9 C Sharp Minor
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 18 Op.10 No.9 F Minor-Imitation Of Op.25 No.2
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 18A Op.10 No.9 F Sharp Minor-Left Hand
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 19 Op.10 No.10 D Major
Studies After The Etudes Of Chopin: 20 Op.10 No.10 A Flat Major-Left Hand

Customer Reviews:

This music requires an almost supernatural technique..........2001-07-15

Composer Godowsky has beautifully augmented the Etudes of Chopin, adding textures and even extra melody lines, with just two hands expected to somehow play it all. Carlo Grante is a very good pianist, but this music requires amazing dexterity. This is a noble attempt, but too often Grante is forced to break the rhythm and fluidity of the pieces in order to accomodate the extra material. Many of the pieces are simply played too slowly. Imagine Chopin etudes plodding like dinosaurs, like someone's got a thumb on the record! Marc-Andre Hamelin has the supernatural technique to play these pieces well. Grante plays some of the studies well enough. It's interesting to hear him attempt some of the most complex pieces ever written. But perhaps he needs another few years of practice. Someone wrote that Grante has re-recorded these pieces for release this year. It should be VERY interesting to see what eight extra years of practice has yielded!

Nonsense........2001-05-22

Grante has no idea at all of style appropriate to this idiom. Most of these are unrecognizable. No sense of texture, tone, legato, or anything else that would have meant anything to Godowsky. Check out Godowsky's American records, e.g. the Berceuse, (not the Columbias) to hear what I mean. As bad as I've heard since Szidon's hysterical Scriabin or Pollini's brutal Chopin. No bueno. Really no stars at all.

Good Godowsky........2000-12-15

Good performances, but inferior to this very same pianist's second recording of these studies found on Music & Arts... Also, a bit over-priced.

The Definitive Performance of these Murderous Pieces.......2000-02-12

Carlo Grante shows that he has the heart of a lion by tackling these fiendish pieces. One would be hard pressed to find more difficult music for the piano. The intellectual and technical demands are titanic. Mr. Grante shows that he is more than equal to them. There is no finer recording of these pieces available. This recording alone would catapult Mr. Grante to the front rank of today's best pianists. Only Arcadi Volodos, Marc-Andre Hamelin, and Jack Gibbons deserve to be mentioned in the same breath with him. The music itself is delightful. Godowsky has an odd art deco sensibility that makes his music the sonic analog of a Tiffany stained glass window. All three volumes of this set are well worth having.

Leopold Godowsky: Studien über die Etüden von Chopin, Vol. 2: Nos. 21-43

Average customer rating:

Same review as other 2 volumes, EDITED :)
Jaw Dropping Pianistic Fireworks

Leopold Godowsky: Studien über die Etüden von Chopin, Vol. 2: Nos. 21-43

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Leopold Godwosky: Studien über die Etüden von Chopin, Vol. 1: Nos. 1-20

ASIN: B000003IYH
Release Date: 1996-01-05

Tracks:

Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 10 No. 11 in A Major - Left Hand
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 10 No. 12 in C Sharp Minor - Left Hand
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 25 No. 1 in A Flat Major - Left Hand
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 25 No. 1 in A Flat Major - 'like a piece for 4 hands'
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 25 No. 1 in A Flat Major
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 25 No. 2 in F Minor
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 25 No. 2 in F Minor - 'Waltz'
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 25 No. 2 in F Minor - in octaves
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 25 No. 2 in F Sharp Minor - Left Hand
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 25 No. 3 in F Major
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 25 No. 3 in F Major - Left Hand
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 25 No. 4 in A Minor - Left Hand
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 25 No. 4 in F Minor - 'Polonaise'
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 25 No. 5 in E Minor
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 25 No. 5 in C Sharp Minor - 'Mazurka'
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 25 No. 5 in B Flat Minor - Left Hand
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 25 No. 6 in G Sharp Minor - in Thirds
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 25 No. 8 in D Flat Major - in Sixths
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 25 No. 9 in G Flat Major
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 25 No. 9 in G Flat Major - Left Hand
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 25 No. 10 in B Minor - Left Hand
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 25 No. 11 in A Minor
Studies After The Etudes of Chopin: Op. 25 No. 12 in C Sharp Minor - Left Hand

Customer Reviews:

Same review as other 2 volumes, EDITED :).......2000-12-15

Godowsky's magnum opus, the 53 Studies on 26 of Chopin's Etudes is probably the piano repetoire's peak of poetic and pyrotechnical decadence. Sometimes I wonder how Chopin would have responded to Chopin's fantastic elaborations, but I'm sure, both as firm-held creative pianistic genuises, it wouldn't have involved much temper, especially considering the drawing on possibilities, extending the originals' already formidable technical demands into a realm of polyphonic, rhythmic, and dynamic utopia. Personally, I consider Godowsky's efforts an enormous compliment, or at least so it seems from the hands of this phenomenal (and very personable) pianist, who captures every breath-taking shade and nuance of Godowsky's crippling wit, mischeviousness, insouciance, and audacity. Although sadly not in the best recorded sound, Grante brings an earthy, unruffled, almost aristocratic ease to the fiendish and outlandish difficulties throughout the entire set. Although--as is common among pianists playing this impossible music, the fast ones are a little slow and the slow ones are a little fast, Grante seems to surpass what has been required with flying colors. He really does have a perfect demand of every bright-and-shinging and dark-and-tumultous element in the music, and with a gloriously rich and full tone. Essential! -- I have it on good word of the pianist and the president of Music and Arts that he/they will be releasing newly recorded versions of this set. GOD SPEED!

Jaw Dropping Pianistic Fireworks.......2000-02-12

The intrepid Carlo Grante continues his flawless traversal of Godowsky's murderous Chopin studies. These are the definitive recordings of these remarkable works. Godowsky, arguably the greatest pianist that has ever lived, wrote these for himself, and they require a pianist of comparable skill to bring them off. Mr. Grante does so with panache. The music is an intoxicating kind of art deco, opium dream of Chopin. There is nothing like them. All three volumes of this set are a must have for piano lovers.