SoundStage! Leopold Godowsky - Java Suite leopold godowsky (18701938), a Polish-born pianist and composer, was considered a piano prodigy from an early age. He claimed that he had no teacher that http://www.soundstage.com/music/reviews/rev323.htm
Extractions: johnc@soundstage.com Musical Performance Recording Quality Overall Enjoyment Pro Piano Records is a new label to me, but a quick perusal of their website revealed that they have released quite a number of recordings (all solo piano big surprise, huh?) over the last few years. All of their discs have been recorded to the highest standards of the day; most are 20-bit, although the most recent are 24-bit. Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938), a Polish-born pianist and composer, was considered a piano prodigy from an early age. He claimed that he had no teacher that he could remember, although he did spend time with Camille Saint-Saëns discussing theory. He wrote prolifically throughout his life, mostly for the piano. His Java Suite for solo piano, written in 1920, consists of 12 pieces, in four parts, and commemorates his impressions and feelings from his journey to Indonesia. This suite has never, until now, been recorded in its entirety. Esther Budiardjo, the performer on this disc, comes from Indonesia. She is currently completing her doctorate at the New England Conservatory of Music and has been performing publicly since 1993. This is her second disc for Pro Piano (she previously did an all-Mendelssohn album).
Leopold Godowsky - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia His career as a concert pianist, which eventually would take him to every As a composer, godowsky is best known for his paraphrases of piano pieces by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Godowsky
Extractions: Leopold Godowsky (Leopold Godowski) ( February 13 November 21 ) was a Polish pianist, composer, and teacher. He has been described as the "Pianist of Pianists". Photograph of Leopold Godowsky Godowsky was born in SozÅy , near Wilno , in what is now Lithuania . As a child, he received some lessons in basic piano playing and music theory; at age fourteen, he entered the K¶nigliche Hochschule f¼r Musik in Berlin, where he studied under Ernst Rudorff , but left after three months. Otherwise, he was self-taught. His career as a concert pianist, which eventually would take him to every continent except Australia and Antarctica, began at age ten. In , after a tour of North America, he returned to Europe, intending to study with Franz Liszt in Weimar . Upon learning of Liszt's death shortly after his return, he traveled instead to Paris , where he was befriended by the composer and pianist Camille Saint-Sa«ns , who enabled him to make the acquaintance of many leading French musicians. Saint-Sa«ns even proposed to adopt Godowsky if he would take his surname, an offer which Godowsky declined, much to the older man's displeasure. Godowsky's pedagogical activity began in at the New York College of Music . While in New York , he married Frieda Saxe and became an American citizen. In
Nocturne For Piano No. 19 In E Minor, Op. 72/1, CT. 126 godowsky The pianists pianist. Featuring godowsky, leopold. Release 1988. Label APR. Chopin Nocturnes. Featuring Levy, Daniel. Release 1989 http://www.mmguide.musicmatch.com/album/work_classical.cgi?WORKID=230292
Article Interviewing Pachmann On Godowsky, NYT November 1911. godowsky Master, says de Pachmann Famous pianist Places Him Among the the transcriptions made by leopold godowsky are not to be taken lightly. http://users.bigpond.net.au/nettheim/pachmann/nytnov11.htm
Extractions: Par 1 According to Vladimir de Pachmann, the pianist, whose playing of Chopin has won enviable fame for him, the transcriptions made by Leopold Godowsky are not to be taken lightly. They constitute, in his opinion, some of the most important works in the literature of the pianoforte. Par 2 "I only have learned a few of Godowsky's transcriptions of Chopin." said de Pachmann last weeek to a Times reporter, "but I have played over by myself all of Godowsky's works in this direction and I can scarcely tell how great I believe it to be. His original work may not be so fine, but his transcriptions are wonderful and very difficult. Who can play them? Only a few. They demand a special technique of their own. Godowsky himself perhaps does not bring to them all the supreme qualities they need. Par 3 Par 4 Par 5 "Touring fatigues me," he said, "and that voyage was dreadful. Then when the reporters met me at the dock and asked me if I liked America I told them 'No.' That morning I did not like anything. They printed all I said about America and musical critics and what not, and, of course, I didn't mean it at all. I was sick and cross.
Extractions: HYPERION CDA67411/2 (2 CDs) [153' 02"] In order to fully appreciate what Godowsky has done it is important to know the Chopin originals (some of the greatest piano music). However, even if you are not familiar with Chopin's inspired creations as he wrote them, Godowsky's commentaries on them retain (to a greater or lesser extent) Chopin's melodies - each can be appreciated on purely musical terms as a Chopin/Godowsky collaboration. And there are some real gems here to complement what Chopin left us. That this is so is due to Hamelin. Whatever difficulties the pianist faces (and they are considerable), Hamelin has overcome them and is able to play each of Godowsky's Studies as a musical entity. It says much for Chopin's genius - and Godowsky's imagination - that it was possible, for example, for Godowsky to write seven Studies based on Chopin's Op.10/5. Each has a different character but Chopin's original is omnipresent: it's like viewing the same object from various angles and seeing a different (but related) perspective. Hyperion's booklet is a model of how to present music that isn't heavily represented in the catalogue or, in this case, only known to piano cognoscenti. Godowsky's own introduction is included along with an essay by Jeremy Nicholas (an author on Godowsky) and comments by Hamelin himself. Add the top-notch production values of Andrew Keener and superb Tony Faulkner sound and this release cannot be faulted. I did wonder though if Hyperion has missed a trick by not adding a third CD and asking Hamelin to record Chopin's 27 Etudes as well - a complete package.
Extractions: The overall scheme, originally intended as a three-section form for each piece (designed to express the life of the people (Allegro), their poetic nature (Lento) and the Dance) became a four-part form of twelve pieces, each section consisting of three pieces. All are in duple/quadruple time as is all Javanese music (just as Godowsky's "Triakontameron" and "Walzermasken" are in triple time.) The sonority of the first piece "Gamelan" pervades the whole Suite. Godowsky had certainly heard the Gamelan orchestra in the Paris Grande Exposition Universelle (1889) but had experienced it the year before, visiting Java as an impressionable youth of nineteen. In the Foreword to the Suite he wrote:
Anecdote - Leopold Godowsky - Dueling Violins in attendance were fellow violinist Mischa Elman and the pianist leopold godowsky. godowsky, leopold (18701938) Russian piano virtuoso and composer http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=6755
Anecdote - Leopold Godowsky - Twins leopold godowsky (son of the late pianistcomposer) asked his sister to drive his three-year-old twins to their Westport home. By the way, said leopold, http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=2646
Classical Pianist Adam Aleksander/index.html ADAM ALEKSANDER leopold godowsky Grand Sonata for Piano in E Minor recording of an epic piano work by great pianist and composer leopold godowsky. http://pianist.freehomepage.com/
Extractions: document.write('' ; CLASSICAL PIANIST ADAM ALEKSANDER Critics have hailed Adam Aleksanders playing as having rare finesse gorgeous sonority and nimble fingers generous of feeling, mood and tonal resources (Cleveland Plain Dealer); (Aleksander) is a consummate pianist outstanding artist (Miami Herald); having phenomenal technique, which allows him to achieve extremely musical ends (Byron Belt, Newshouse News Service); (Aleksander) is one of the great artists of the city and promises to become one of the greatest pianists (Daniel Fernandez, El Nuevo Herald), exquisite subtlety and grace fire and brimstone rare depth and substance introspective exhilarating! (Pat Leitch, Coral Gables Gazette.) Born in Edmonton, Canada, Adam Aleksander has been performing to the acclaim of audiences worldwide since his debut with orchestra at the age of fourteen with the Chopin Piano Concerto in E Minor. He has studied with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Regina Smendzianka at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, and Jim Bonn at the University of Southern California. He has performed at festivals in Tokyo, Tours, Atami, Orford, Quebec, Interlochen, Michigan, Cleveland, Miami, Slupsk as well as Antonin, Poland. Aleksander has received top prizes in over nineteen piano competitions, including international competitions in Barcelona, Paris, Salerno, Miami, Edmonton and Palm Beach, and has received prizes for his recordings in competitions in Austin, Texas and Calgary, Canada. In addition, he has been awarded grants from The Canada Council and The Alberta Heritage Trust Fund.
Playing Left Hand Piano Music with the exception of leopold godowsky s exploration into the innermost recesses and An article by Antonio Iturrioz, concert pianist and educator http://www.unconservatory.org/articles/lhpiano.html
Extractions: Playing Left Hand Piano Music An article by Antonio Iturrioz, concert pianist and educator P iano music written for the left hand alone evolved from either temporary or permanent handicaps of pianists, with the exception of Leopold Godowsky's exploration into the innermost recesses and possibilities of playing the piano, which involve a separate, penetrating, unbelievably ingenious look at this subject to a degree that has never been equaled. T he pianist must respect the composer's thoughts, intentions and directions of the printed score, and make a percussive instrument sing. No matter how brilliant, how intense, how passionate, how intimate or how delicate, the piano must sing. (Chopin said to his pupils, "Canta!") If one keeps this aesthetic in mind, he will eliminate the possibility of making a harsh sound or shattering an eardrum. Imagine transferring all these ideals to one hand playing. T o begin with, there is an immediate tendency to want to play louder because we are conditioned to hearing the voluminous sounds of normal two hand piano music. Therefore left hand playing is vulnerable to unfriendly sounds. We pianists must listen to ourselves with a greater degree of attentiveness than ever before. At the same tine, left hand playing enables us to be more intimate and personal (almost fragile) without as much physical effort as in normal playing. I n contrast to what the layman may think, it is more difficult to play music with one hand than with two. With two hands, one is always subservient to the other. With one hand there are never any silences. You can't rest for a moment. Everything is more exposed. You can't use the acoustical range you get with two hands.
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Waiting For Godowsky - Outlook Online - Stages pianist leopold godowsky III will perform with the 49member chamber orchestra in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center s Dekelboum Concert Hall. http://outlook.collegepublisher.com/news/2003/10/14/Stages/Waiting.For.Godowsky-
Extractions: Pianist Leopold Godowsky III will perform with the 49-member chamber orchestra in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center's Dekelboum Concert Hall. Heir to two great musical traditions, he is the nephew of George Gershwin and grandson of the legendary pianist/composer Leopold Godowsky. He will perform in the hall right next door to the International Piano Archives at Maryland (IPAM), which houses a collection of musical scores, recordings and correspondence related to his grandfather.
Godowsky: Sonata And Passacaglia leopold godowsky (18701938). Sonata and Passacaglia In Hamelin we have a pianist not only equal to the task, but enthusiastic about it this is a http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/details/67300.asp
Extractions: Famed for his piano miniatures and his fantastically elaborate transcriptions, Godowsky wrote only two large-scale original works for the piano. The huge five-movement Sonata (1910/11), one of the most imposing works of its type, is powerfully dramatic and, like most Godowsky, often very contrapuntal. It has a beautiful slow movement, a delightful scherzo, and a monumental 20-minute finale that includes a fugue on the name B-A-C-H. It deserves to be far better known. The Passacaglia was written in 1927 in anticipation of the 100th anniversary of Schubert's death, and is subtitled '44 variations, cadenza and fugue on the opening theme of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony'. The piece has earned a reputation as being among the most difficult in the repertoire, partly because of Horowitz's flippant comment that it required six hands to play it - it is in fact superbly pianistic. This is the first time that these two works have appeared on the same disc. Anyone who has heard Marc-André Hamelin's Gramphone Award-winning set of Godowsky's complete Studies after Chopin's Etudes will want this equally phenomenal follow-up. The performances are spectacular.
Extractions: ALAN Review Afterimage American Drama American Music Teacher ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports The Godowsky Kreisler Collection: the Complete Works for Violin and Piano American Music Teacher Oct-Nov, 2004 by T.J. Lymenstull Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. The Godowsky Kreisler Collection: The Complete Works for Violin and Piano, by Leopold Godowsky and Fritz Kreisler. Carl Fischer (65 Bleeker St., New York, NY 10012), 2004. 126pp. $19.95. Advanced. Leopold Godowsky, one of the great pianist-composers of the early twentieth century, produced an extensive oeuvre of original compositions, almost exclusively for piano. Among the few pieces for other instruments are these compositions for violin and piano, collected here in their entirety.
Jeremy Nicholas: Writer godowsky The pianist s pianist The biography of leopold godowsky 390 pages, including 16 of black and white photographs. The English edition is published http://www.jeremynicholas.com/jn/me/writer.htm
Extractions: jeremy@jeremynicholas.com Godowsky - The Pianists' Pianist , the first study of this remarkable musician's life, is the result of ten year's research. It is written with the full co-operation of the Godowsky family who have given me unprecedented access to their archives. Appearing for the first time in print is the one completed chapter of Godowsky's autobiography as well as many previously unpublished letters, documents and photographs. Renowned as a wit and the generous host of countless , esteemed as a teacher, philosopher and musical sage, Leopold Godowsky was held in awe and affection by his pianistic colleagues. Jeremy Nicholas examines the factors which, together with the tragedy that abruptly ended his career, have contributed towards his unjust neglect. His family life is not neglected - one daughter was in silent film, one son invented colour photography while another committed suicide. The copious appendices include a catalogue of all Godowsky's compositions (published and unpublished) plus the first complete discography and piano roll catalogue.
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Extractions: Passacaglia , giving up on the work while he was preparing it for performance. We probably shouldn't take Horowitz too seriously; he doesn't seem to have cared for Godowsky's music at all - unlike Marc-André Hamelin, who has the phenomenal technique and razor-sharp musical intellect to succeed with this music where others usually fail, or at best give up in the attempt. "My music is not difficult", Godowsky said himself. "Too many pianists were too indolent mentally and physically to make the supreme effort."
