Godowsky: Complete Studies on Chopin (3CD)

Leopold Godowsky 1870-1938

Studies on Études of Frédéric Chopin 1810-1849

CD1                                                                                                                                                                                76’06

Studies on the Etudes Op.10 of F. Chopin

1. Study No.1 on Op.10 No.1 – 1st version 2’01
2. Study No.2 on Op.10 No.1 – 2nd version – for the left hand alone 2’57
3. Study No.3 on Op.10 No.2 – 1st version – for the left hand alone 1’55
4. Study No.4 on Op.10 No.2 – 2nd version “Ignis Fatuus” 1’57
5. Study No.5 on Op.10 No.3 – for the left hand alone 4’31
6. Study No.6 on Op.10 No.4 – for the left hand alone 3’00
7. Study No.7 on Op.10 No.5 – 1st version 1’53
8. Study No.8 on Op.10 No.5 – 2nd version “On the white Keys” 2’08
9. Study No.9 on Op.10 No.5 – 3rd version “Tarantella” 2’40
10. Study No.10 on Op.10 No.5 – 4th version “Capriccio” 2’22
11. Study No.11 on Op.10 No.5 – 5th version “Inversion for the left hand” 2’09
12. Study No.12 on Op.10 No.5 – 6th version “Inversion for the right hand” 2’17
13. Study No.12a on Op.10 No.5 – 7th version – for the left hand alone 2’36
14. Study No.13 on Op.10 No.6 – for the left hand alone 3’22
15. Study No.14 on Op.10 No.7 – 1st version 1’58
16. Study No.15 on Op.10 No.7 – 2nd version 2’25
17. Study No.15a on Op.10 No.7 – 3rd version – for the left hand alone 2’39
18. Study No.16 on Op.10 No.8 – 1st version 3’10
19. Study No.16a on Op.10 No.8 – 2nd version – for the left hand alone 3’50
20. Study No.17 on Op.10 No.9 – 1st version 2’45
21. Study No.18 on Op.10 No.9 – 2nd version – imitation of the study Op. 25 No.2 2’41
22. Study No.18a on Op.10 No.9 – 3rd version – for the left hand alone 4’49
23. Study No.19 on Op.10 No.10 – 1st version 3’46
24. Study No.20 on Op.10 No.10 – 2nd version – for the left hand alone 3’17
25. Study No.21 on Op.10 No.11 – for the left hand alone 3’43
26. Study No.22 on Op.10 No.12 – for the left hand alone 3’20
27. Study No.47 on Op.10 No.5 & Op.25 No.9 – “Badinage” 1’39

CD2                                                                                                                                                                                76’50

Studies on the Trois Novelles Études of F. Chopin

1. Study No.44 on Trois Novelles Études No.1 – for the left hand alone 1’53
2. Study No.45 on Trois Novelles Études No.2 – 1st version 3’40
3. Study No.45a on Trois Novelles Études No.2 – 2nd version – for the left hand alone 2’07
4. Study No.46 on Trois Novelles Études No.3 – “Menuetto” 3’35
5. Study No.48 on Op.10 No.11 & Op.25 No.3 combined together 2’29

Studies on the Etudes Op.25 of F. Chopin

6. Study No.23 on Op.25 No.1 – 1st version – for the left hand alone 2’45
7. Study No.24 on Op.25 No.1 – 2nd version – “Four hands” 2’43
8. Study No.25 on Op.25 No.1 – 3rd version 2’39
9. Study No.26 on Op.25 No.2 – 1st version 1’51
10. Study No.27 on Op.25 No.2 – 2nd version – “Waltz” 2’13
11. Study No.28a on Op.25 No.2 – 3rd version 2’22
12. Study No.28b on Op.25 No.2 – 3rd version – “Octaves” 2’35
13. Study No.28a on Op.25 No.2 – 4th version – for the left hand alone 2’34
14. Study No.29 on Op.25 No.3 – 1st version 2’31
15. Study No.30 on Op.25 No.3 – 2nd version – for the left hand alone 2’43
16. Study No.31 on Op.25 No.4 – 1st version – for the left hand alone 2’42
17. Study No.32 on Op.25 No.4 – 2nd version – “Polonaise” 2’02
18. Study No.32 on Op.25 No.4 – 2nd version – “Trio” 2’08
19. Study No.33 on Op.25 No.5 – 1st version 3’56
20. Study No.34 on Op.25 No.5 – 2nd version – “Mazurka” 3’33
21. Study No.35 on Op.25 No.5 – 3rd version – for the left hand alone 4’06
22. Study No.36 on Op.25 No.6 – “Thirds” 2’25
23. Study No.38 on Op.25 No.8 – “Sixths” 1’25
24. Study No.39 on Op.25 No.9 – 1st version 1’11
25. Study No.40 on op.25 No.9 – 2nd version – for the left hand alone 1’32
26. Study No.41 on Op.25 No.10 – for the left hand alone 4’14
27. Study No.42 on Op.25 No.11 4’58
28. Study No.43 on Op.25 No.12 – for the left hand alone 3’41

CD3                                                                                                                                                                                64’31

1. Passacaglia: 44 Variations, Epilogue, Cadenza and Fugue

on the opening theme of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony                                                                                        15’08

from “12 Schubert Song Transcriptions”

2. No.1 “Wohin” 2’24
3. No.2 “Gute Nacht” 4’32
4. No.11 “Heidenröslein” 1’37
5. No.7 “Wiegenlied” 2’35
6. No.8 “Morgengruss” 3’41

Piano Transcriptions from various authors

7. Ständchen (Richard Strauss) 2’28
8. Adagietto from “L’Arlésienne Suite” (Georges Bizet) 2’33
9. Canzonetta from “Concerto Romantique” (Benjamin Godard) 3’18
10. Tango from “España” (Isaac Albeniz) 2’29

Four Poems (1927 - 1931)

11. No.1 Devotion 2’45
12. No.2 Avowal 2’35
13. No.3 Adoration 3’29
14. No.4 Yearning 3’16

15. “Wein, Weib und Gesang”

from “Symphonische Metamorphosen Johann Strauss’scher Themen” No.3 8’45

16. “Alt Wien” from “Triakontameron” No.11 2’12

Emanuele Delucchi

Steinway D 1906 (from the collection of Marco Barletta and Alberto Mattarozzi)

Recording: 6-8 March 2015, Marco Barletta Laboratory, Chiavari (GE), Italy (CD3); 12-13 July 2016

(CD1), 6-8 April 2018 (CD2), Mattarozzi studio, Cremona, Italy