Podcast: Godowsky’s Complete Piano Works · Konstantin Scherbakov concludes his masterly edition.

December 29, 2023

GODOWSKY, L.: Piano Music, Vol. 15 - 53 Studies on the Chopin Études, Vol. 2

GODOWSKY, L.: Piano Music, Vol. 15 - 53 Studies on the Chopin Études, Vol. 2
K. Scherbakov
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Raymond Bisha introduces the fifteenth and final volume in Konstantin Scherbakov’s recordings of the complete piano works of Leopold Godowsky, in which the programme comprises a number of the arrangements Godowsky made of Chopin’s Études. Reflecting on his mammoth undertaking, the virtuoso pianist notes that “this project to record Leopold Godowsky’s complete piano works began in 1997 and has taken me 26 years to complete. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that this is one of the largest and most important recording projects of the piano repertoire, through which many works have received their premiere recordings.”