Godowsky - Strauss transcriptions and other waltzes
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Label: Hyperion
Cat No: CDA67626
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 28th July 2008
Contents
Works
GodowskySymphonic Metamorphosis on Kunstlerleben after Johann Strauss II
Godowsky
Walzermasken 24 tone poems in triple time: No.2 Pastell / No.14 Franzosisch / No.22 Wienerisch / No.24 Portrait—Joh. Str.
Godowsky
Symphonic Metamorphosis on Die Fledermaus after Johann Strauss II
Godowsky
Triakontameron 30 moods and scenes in triple measure: No.4 Rendezvous / No.11 Alt Wien / No.13 Terpsichorean Vindobona / No.21 The Salon / No.25 Memories
Godowsky
Symphonic Metamorphosis on Wein, Weib und Gesang after Johann Strauss II
Straus/Godowsky
The Last Waltz (idealized version by Leopold Godowsky)
Artists
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)Works
GodowskySymphonic Metamorphosis on Kunstlerleben after Johann Strauss II
Godowsky
Walzermasken 24 tone poems in triple time: No.2 Pastell / No.14 Franzosisch / No.22 Wienerisch / No.24 Portrait—Joh. Str.
Godowsky
Symphonic Metamorphosis on Die Fledermaus after Johann Strauss II
Godowsky
Triakontameron 30 moods and scenes in triple measure: No.4 Rendezvous / No.11 Alt Wien / No.13 Terpsichorean Vindobona / No.21 The Salon / No.25 Memories
Godowsky
Symphonic Metamorphosis on Wein, Weib und Gesang after Johann Strauss II
Straus/Godowsky
The Last Waltz (idealized version by Leopold Godowsky)
Artists
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)About
In the three great Strauss transcriptions, Godowsky elevated the art of the piano paraphrase to a higher musical and pianistic plane; however, their extreme technical difficulty remains a striking feature and places them out of the reach of ordinary pianists. And Marc-André Hamelin is, of course, no ordinary pianist!
Triakontameron and Walzermasken are rarely performed examples of Godowsky’s original work, and continue the composer’s love-affair with the waltz - they are written entirely in 3/4 time.
The last work on this dazzling disc is an oddity—indeed, a rarity. Sometime prior to 1925, Godowsky made a piano roll of his arrangement of The Last Waltz by Oscar Straus (1870–1954), the Vienna-born composer. The eponymous Waltz is heard throughout the 1920 operetta. The music of Godowsky’s transcription was never published for some unknown reason as it is a uniquely appealing arrangement. In the early 1970s, Gilles Hamelin, the pianophile father of Marc-André, notated, arranged and edited The Last Waltz from Godowsky’s piano roll, which was then published in 1975. Shortly afterwards, a copy of the negative of Godowsky’s manuscript was sent to Gilles Hamelin. It was all but illegible, so Hamelin Snr. made a fair copy in his own hand: in almost every respect it tallied with the version he had transcribed from the piano roll.
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